Atraxa Staxing Charge Counters

Commander / EDH*

BrianBartilet

Land (34)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (24)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Darksteel Reactor
• 1x Energy Chamber
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Power Conduit
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Winter Orb

Planeswalker (8)

• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Enchantment (5)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Azor's Elocutors
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Gilder Bairn
• 1x Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
• 1x Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Trinket Mage

Instant (7)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Atraxa is really a good build around commander especially if you want to play the best cards using counters across four colors. I designed this deck as my primary Atraxa for my playgroup with a backup good stuff deck build, just to switch play strategies especially when everybody tries to get your neck because of such oppressive strategy this deck brings.

Stax Package: Lodestone Golem, Grafdigger's Cage, Smokestack, Sphere of Resistance, Static Orb, Winter Orb, Trinisphere, I would like to add a Thorn of Amethyst, but the amount of non-creature cards I have makes me think twice.

I tried to leverage on the use of charge counters buffs using such cards as Power Conduit and Energy Chamber. They do have a very good synergy across different cards in the deck, like ramping up using Coalition Relic, Everflowing Chalice and Astral Cornucopia. Or winning the game using Umezawa's Jitte and Darksteel Reactor. Then utilizing the proliferate mechanic just makes this deck go bonkers, especially with Doubling Season.

Backup winning conditions include Mechanized Production, Azor's Elocutors and Grafted Exoskeleton (using my creatures as beat sticks, the old-fashioned way).

Using Mechanized Production on Darksteel Reactor, Darksteel Citadel, Sphere of Resistance and Tangle Wire can lock out the table and/or create so much trouble which can make opponents scoop. Yes the deck is oppressive, but it is actually fun to play and do have lots of card interactions, though you need to get used to the faces of disgust when playing with this deck.

I do also utilize the best general purpose planeswalkers in my opinion, which can be also be used to other Atraxa builds.

Included also some cost reducing/ramp spells, Foundry Inspector, As Foretold, Crystalline Crawler and Inspiring Statuary which can get me ahead from the effects of the deck. I am also using the most efficient tutors, some deck fixing include Dark Confidant and his far cousin Glint-Sleeve Siphoner which really does well with the deck build, along with Phyrexian Arena, Sylvan Library and Sensei's Divining Top

Having pillow fort backups sometimes helps, utilizing Silent Arbiter and Norn's Annex, I had also included destruction removals to clean up things when everybody is ganging up on you; along with few spot removals, Thoughtseize and Swords to Plowshares.

Others are basically just utility cards, some help support counter generation and win us the game, Doubling Season, Gilder Bairn, Deepglow Skate and Contagion Clasp.

I do have considered including Contagion Engine and Eternity Vessel for this build but I feel they are a bit clunky and would just be stuck in hand without doing any much action.

Suggestions to card changes and discussion would be greatly appreciated! Happy brewing!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 63 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Energy Reserve, Plant 0/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G w/ Deathtouch, Soldier 1/1 W, Vampire 1/1 B w/ Lifelink