Atraxa Awakened

Commander / EDH* GWUB

Roastbeast74122

Land (35)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Calciform Pools
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 2x Island
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Saltcrusted Steppe
• 1x Shambling Vent
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Treetop Village
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Artifact (9)

• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Gemstone Array
• 1x Pentad Prism
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine

Creature (23)

• 1x Abzan Battle Priest
• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Arcbound Ravager
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Halimar Tidecaller
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Mer-Ek Nightblade
• 1x Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Solarion
• 1x Swarm of Bloodflies
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Clutch of Currents
• 1x Coastal Discovery
• 1x Earthen Arms
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Planar Cleansing
• 1x Planar Outburst
• 1x Restore
• 1x Roil Spout
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Sheer Drop
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Death's Presence
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Terra Eternal

Commanders (3)

Instant (7)

• 1x Bioshift
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Fuel for the Cause
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Scatter to the Winds
• 1x Steady Progress
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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Sideboard

Land (4)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Zoetic Cavern

Artifact (3)

• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Genesis Mage

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Duneblast
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Part the Waterveil

Creature (2)

• 1x Bastion Protector
• 1x Ichor Rats

Land (3)

• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Seaside Citadel

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Midnight Oil
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients

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My previous Atraxa deck always lost the same way; I spent all my time and energy building up my board for a windup, but before the KO all those counters could all go up in smoke. I could outspend my opponent but if they never connected what was the point.

The main concept of this deck is to not let your +1/+1 counters go to waste with target removal and boardwipes until they can be used for the win. As you creatures grow fast, they start to attract a lot of attention and if they are killed there is a lot of time and energy that goes to waste that was spent giving them all of those counters. Obvious additions to counteract this are Death's Presence and Reyhan, Last of the Abzan, but what those counters get transferred to just becomes the next body with an even larger target on its back. My solution was to use the Man-Lands, Lumbering Falls, to collect counters in such situations and bide more time proliferating/collecting until there is a window to use the awakened mechanic from BFZ and OotGW like Ruinous Path Planar Outburst to throw out massive Land creatures at exactly the right time.

I wanted to try to do something with Atraxa, Praetors' Voice that was different than what her abilities immediately suggest. I run a set of the partner commanders in this as well. They work as good alternates (if not an easier primary) that support what is happening here.

this is ultimately a work in progress. there is some dead weight and some weak spots that could be filled. in.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 3 Mythic Rares 46 - 2 Rares 22 - 3 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	98
Avg. CMC	3.41
Tokens	Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C