ValleyGirl Atraxa

Commander / EDH emrakulinsmugglers

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ndgipper says... #1

May 6, 2017 1:38 p.m.

SirLag says... #2

I like your changes so far, the largest thing sticking out to me is you may want to consider running either Cyclonic Rift or Supreme Verdict.

June 25, 2017 12:37 p.m.

BlueElectivire says... #3

Thanks for suggesting on my deck in "Advertide your commander deck" :) I would suggest Chromatic Lantern, since your playing 4-color with a medium to high cmc curve. It will make every land you control into a lean mean mana machine. Play Brainstorm instead of Treasure Cruise, since your not playing a deck that graveyard size matters for, and it's just cheaper to play if you don't have enough cards to delve, and can be played much earlier.

June 25, 2017 12:50 p.m.

thanks! I'll probably swap for those boardwipes instead.

I don't run brainstorm because I hate ruining my next 2 draws (because most of the time, I put back 2 lands.) Chromatic lantern looks nice! I'll add that in.

June 25, 2017 12:54 p.m.

BlueElectivire says... #5

BTW: how do you make the upvote link in the description? The formatting guide on the site doesn't cover that. Is it just a premium feature?

June 25, 2017 1:06 p.m.

its just html, the code for my button is

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You can usually inspect element to see the code people use for their buttons, some people use

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June 25, 2017 1:19 p.m. Edited.

BlueElectivire says... #7

thx! :)

June 25, 2017 1:21 p.m.

try Phyrexian Arena instead of Midnight Oil.

It's more consistent, keeps the hand size at 7, and only takes 1 life.midnight oil is only beneficial in standard.

July 18, 2017 6:13 p.m.

Mr_Rhinolicious

Phyrexian Arena has been added to the deck 3 weeks ago.

Midnight Oil is not even in the deck.

July 18, 2017 10:21 p.m. Edited.

Decisive says... #10

Harmonize instead of Treasure Cruise

Also above two posts are f***ing hilarious!!

July 18, 2017 11:20 p.m. Edited.

Krallion

You're right, harmonize is better.

Yeah I had to add an update, I think he thought my sideboard was my mainboard.

July 18, 2017 11:23 p.m.

Yeah, totally, a sorcery speed ancestral usually is worse than concentrate...... I mean your yard will fill over the course of a game due to playing out spells and removal as well as to boardwipes and opponents actions, so in general Cruise is better than harmonize

July 20, 2017 7:11 p.m.

malloggio says... #13

Why don'y use Burgeoning as mana ramp? Pretty insane.

July 20, 2017 7:28 p.m.

Decisive says... #14

sarkhanisverybroken both are sorcery speed, and delve is a good way to make it really cheap, but its commander, cards like Bojuka Bog are frequent in any deck running black, and even then there are other options like Rest in Piece. A general rule of thumb is that Harmonize is better overall in the grand scheme of things

July 20, 2017 8:27 p.m.

But in general you wont be bogged unless you are using your graveyard to do something that harms the table, and people will likely wait till the last possible moment to use their hate, so either they can use their graveyards in the meantime with cards like RiP, or to prperly select a target for bog and it genreally wont be the Atraxa deck, and the risk of getting blown out is minimal. Also pull form the common knowledge, on edhrec.com 9911 decks are running Harmonize as opposed to the 10797 running Cruise and the majority of those decks are in Naya colors where you are hard pressed for unconditional card draw. All in all from the experience of others as well as the relatively low floor and very high ceiling, I'd have to say that Ancestral Cruise beats Planar Chaos Concentrate

July 20, 2017 11:01 p.m.

There is literally no point in wasting a Bojuka Bog on a deck who only used their graveyard for one thing and doesn't touch it ever again

harmonize is probably going to be faster, but it clogs up my already clogged up curve. On turn 4, instead of drawing more cards (which can be done later), I should be advancing my board state.

Cruise can be cast very late for 1 mana, drawing 3 cards, and leaving you the rest of your mana to cast them, as well as activating abilities such as on Ghave, Guru of Spores, Viral Drake, or Contagion Engine. Not spending 4 mana and instead spending 1 mana to draw 3 cards leaves me more mana to do more things.

sarkhanisverybroken: inspiring call is still better :)

July 20, 2017 11:38 p.m.

Well, so is Stun in the right deck, and both are very situational but from a general power level Cruise is much higher than both.

July 21, 2017 1:05 a.m.

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