I'm super jealous of your landbase

What about Fabricate and/or Drift of Phantasms to help you find Rings of Brighthearth, Basalt Monolith, etc? It might cut down on some of the grind time. You have a ton of tutors... but why not more?!?!

+1 from me! I built a 4c deck this summer in prep for November as well. If you have a minute; please check it out and tell me what you think! (LINK)

Your suggestions are great,

But I think Fabricate and Drift of Phantasms are too slow (and yes i play Wargate, Tezzeret the Seeker and Bring to Light but I think they are either more versatile and/or much cheaper overall).

Besides, I really want to avoid having any creatures in my deck so cards like Bribery, Swords to Plowshares and the like are dead cards (netting me CA).

I have updated the description of my deck since your comment to add that the road Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth is the main but not the only road to victory.

Thank you for your suggesting

You don't ever really cast and play Drift of Phantasms, just discard to it's own effect. It's one that I recently added to my Animar, Soul of Elements build to help find Cloudstone Curio. For you it can retrieve Propaganda/Ghostly Prison/Ensnaring Bridge if you're getting run over, Chromatic Lantern/Crucible of Worlds if you need fixing, Council's Judgment/Vindicate for pesky permanents, etc. Just my $.02 :)

At the same time I get it. You'll lose some of the flavor having just one random creature in the deck

Also, I'm surprised you're not running cards like No Mercy, Tainted AEther, or (less likely) Lethal Vapors. It would help lock the board down and stop infinite combos. At that point you're going for super grind mode lol

As you've said: i'd lose some flavor by running only one creature

Tainted AEther is a nonbo with Torpor Orb, which I prefer to play ;)

I was used to run No Mercy, but was constantly one shoted by a gigantic creature or a big swarm of tokens, which nullify totally No Mercy

Doesn't the text of the Rings say it can't be used on mana abilities? The Basalt monolith ablity is one, so you wouldn't be able to use it there?(sorry if i am missing something here)

Yes indeed the Rings of Brighthearth cannot be used to copy mana abilities.

But here, that doesn't matter: you're copying the untap ability of Basalt Monolith which is not a mana ability.

Here's the sequence:

• Tap Basalt Monolith for (3 manas in pool)

• Use untap ability of Basalt Monolith (0 mana in pool)

• Copy that ability with Rings of Brighthearth (-2 mana in pool)

• Let the copy resolves, untap Basalt Monolith (-2 mana in pool)

• Tap Basalt Monolith for (1 mana in pool)

• Let the original ability resolves, untap Basalt Monolith (1 mana in pool)

• Rinse and repeat

At the end of the sequence, you are in the same position as the beginning of it, except that you have one more mana in pool.Repeating the sequence N times will get you N colorless mana.

There you are

Ah, I get it now. Thanks for that thorough explanation :)

Thank you for your question: I've since included the processus in the description. ;)

My Atraxa build so far functions around using her EoT effect to proliferate charge counters and get all kinds of wacky interactions, lock down the board by using Planeswalker ults (Narset Transcendent, Dovin Baan, Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, etc.), then killing people through commander damage (Sigil of Distinction, Umezawa's Jitte), or infect (Ichor Rats, Blighted Agent). Atraxa is the engine that runs the deck, but the deck can get by without her and functions like a regular superfriends deck in her abscence similar to yours. Any thoughts/ideas on what cards I should put in?

You can already make her your commander card. Atraxa, Praetor's Voice

Upvoted, just because You're making a cool deck before the commander's even out too. I could use help and advice on my own: Breya, Angry Esper. Need help cutting cards! WIP

woops, double post :|

Ah well, I'll take a moment to make card suggestions.

I'm helping a friend make this deck. we decided on pillowfort and infect. Cards like Triumph of the Hordes to hit everyone, and then making everyone die out to poison with Atraxa and other proliferate effects.

I realize you built her creatureless, which is definitely different from what most people decided. I hope it works for you.

You may still want to try running Contagion Engine

I made her creatureless so i make card advantage right off the bat: all anti-creature spells of my opponents are dead cards.

Contagion Engine is great, but after testing it was somewhat too slow.

Thank you for your comment :)

I feel like with Creatureless you really miss out on a lot of good cards, and unless this is a Duel Commander deck, it's unlikely that your opponents will be unable to use their removal. I just don't think losing a good portion of useful cards is worth having most their removal go towards Atraxa.

Well most of the cards in the deck makes running creatures a poor run for everybody, myself included ( Humility, Toxic Deluge, Supreme Verdict, Merciless Eviction, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Torpor Orb and the many tutors to fetch these cards out).

That's also why, this stax superfriends deck must not have any creature beside the commander.

As you don't play any creatures except your commander and tokens produced by your planeswalkers, I think Proteus Staff could be worth taking into consideration.

Ditch a token produced by Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and stack your whole deck as you wish! Of course it is understandable if you just don't want to play that combo, but it can be quite devastating. It can also be used on your opponent's creatures!

I may test Proteus Staff indeed. I'm just a little afraid that the stream of token won't be sufficient to reliably hit the "rearrange my whole deck" level.

Thank you for your suggestion ;)

You are welcome! :)

It also works with your commander. If Atraxa is out, you can even respond to opposing spot-removal, thus dodging the removal, putting her back onto the battlefield (with no haste yet untapped if you are facing a Tamiyo or the like) AND stacking your library.

That trick, helas, doesn't work, since you can only activate Proteus Staff any time you can play a sorcery.

Mea culpa-

You are right, absolutely forgot about that :( Well it STILL works with your commander, not quite THAT good...

Now that I think of it that staff would have been completely busted otherwise. I feel a bit dumb!

I'm interesting to hear your thoughts on Deepglow Skate. It seems like it very well may be essential to any superfriends deck, with an amazing ability to double all the counters on all your walkers.

Fwiw, yours is the best list for Atraxa I've seen since I started browsing lists a couple days ago. Things like Tabernacle and Moat are way beyond my current budget, but the rest is pretty good.

Thoughts on subbing Damnation for Toxic Deluge? Is the loss of life from TD really that flippant a concern?

Deepglow Skate is a great great card, don't get me wrong.

But in this particular list, it's kinda subpar: The first cards I try to get on the battlefield as soon as I can are Humility and/or Torpor Orb.

These two helps a lot to neutralize the threat of most commander decks: creatures.

But, helas, they also totally neutralize Deepglow Skate, which pains me beyond all that can be said, because I wish I could run Deepglow Skate...

Thank you for your nice compliments.

I greatly prefer Toxic Deluge to Damnation for three things:

• First, it can hit indestructible creatures, which Damnation cannot.
• Secondly: Toxic Deluge can moduled to not hurt my creatures if they are bigger than my opponents' ( which happens mostly than not due to Humility on the battle field and a Elspeth, Sun's Champion's emblem), while Damnation cannot save my creatures.
• Third: it hits one of the deck greatest nemesis: Gaddock Teeg, while Damnation sits in my hand forever.

Thank you for your comment :)

Paliano, the High City would do literally nothing at all besides tap, unless you're drafting your EDH decks before you play!

Yeah I know but in my playgroup, Paliano, the High City is essentially a triple land (a sweet houserule allowing poor players to get a second Command Tower for less than a dollar).

Due to its overall unplayability, I let it in the maybeboard. Sideboard it in when playing with y playgroup. ;)

Thanks for your comment