Atraxa proliferates all kinds of counters

Commander / EDH

NoMercy89

CounterInteraction (33)

• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Experiment Kraj
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Gilder Bairn
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Ivorytusk Fortress
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Orzhov Advokist
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan *f-etch*
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Winding Constrictor

LandFilter (2)

• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Sungrass Prairie

LandLair (2)

• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Treva's Ruins

Ramp (9)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Draw (8)

• 1x Bred for the Hunt
• 1x Dovin Baan
• 1x Etched Oracle
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Kaya, Ghost Assassin
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Tezzeret's Gambit

LandAny (5)

• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Reflecting Pool

UtilitySpell (5)

• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Collective Effort
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

LandUtility (4)

• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

Boardwipe (3)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Duneblast
• 1x Merciless Eviction

Commander (1)

LandFetch (6)

• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath

LandShock (6)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Watery Grave

LandBasic (9)

• 3x Forest
• 2x Island
• 2x Plains
• 2x Swamp

LandDepletion (4)

• 1x Hickory Woodlot
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Remote Farm
• 1x Saprazzan Skerry

SpotRemoval (3)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vindicate

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Maybeboard

Other (11)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Avatar of the Resolute
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Oona's Blackguard
• 1x Parallax Tide
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Finally, there's a commander who cares about counters and brings adds blue to the abzan colors. I immediately decided to redo my Anafenza, the Foremost deck to become even more outlasty.

So, the idea is to do kind of a control game while your creatures grow absurdly big, then drop a surpise Abzan Falconer or Tuskguard Captain and swing for the win.

Some details:

In the ramp section, I tried to abuse atraxa's proliferation as much as possible. Everflowing Chalice, Astral Cornucopia, cristalline crawler and Gyre Sage should all be able to produce huge amounts of mana. My focus there is not so much to get your commander out as quickly as possible, but to be able to really make use of all the carddraw you should get lategame.

Same goes for some of the lands. Gemstone Mine is simply brilliant in this deck and the depletion lands Hickory Woodlot, Peat Bog, Remote Farm and Saprazzan Skerry should finally be playable, too.

Running six fetchlands is kind of costly unfortunately, but with the six shocklands you are able to find any color with any fetchland. Seems worth it in a four color deck.

Well. The deck isn't put together entirely yet, so I hope I can get some suggestions from you guys! All the cards already in the maybeboard seem very, very good to me, I just can't figure out what to replace.

Cheers and happy proliferation!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Emblem Dovin Baan, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Thopter 1/1 C, Vampire Knight 1/1 B