Atraxa Stax

Duel Commander Control Four Color GWUB Land Destruction Stax

Nephtyz

Land (37)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rishadan Port
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Creature (23)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Braids, Cabal Minion
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Zur the Enchanter

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Nether Void
• 1x Parallax Tide
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (5)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Pact

Commander (1)

Artifact (10)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Pentad Prism
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Winter Orb

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Balance
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Sinkhole
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wargate

Planeswalker (6)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Bastion Protector
• 1x Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Vryn Wingmare

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Land Equilibrium
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Moat
• 1x Trial of Ambition

Land (2)

• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Tolaria West

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Duress
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Thoughtseize

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kaya, Ghost Assassin

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Why Atraxa?

Atraxa is a strong color choice that covers the bant colors for a stax general. Grand Arbiter Augustin prevents us from playing green and black. Derevi is banned.

Atraxa offers a lot: vigilance works well with Meekstone, Stasis and Static Orb essentially giving us a free attack each turn. Lifelink helps us stabilizing against tempo decks and flying makes us able to attack each turn (most of the times). By dropping a stax piece (Tangle Wire, Stasis, Winter Orb, Static Orb), we can lock down the board while hitting each turn for 4.

In addition, her proliferate ability allows some locks with Stasis and Pentad Prism or Crystalline Crawler and makes Planeswalkers a huge threat by enabling their ultimate even faster.

Locks

The main lock in this deck is Stasis. There are a number of possible locks with this card, some of them require Atraxa on the battlefield:

• Stasis + Teferi

• Stasis + Garruk

• Stasis + Sword of Feast and Famine + Atraxa

• Stasis + Pentad Prism + Atraxa

• Stasis + Crystalline Crawler + Atraxa

Other soft locks include Winter Orb or Static Orbs paired with the taxing permanents (Sphere, Thorn, Thalia, Lodestone) and Garruk, Sword or Teferi to break it.

Notable mentions

• Zur, the Enchanter: Flexible tutor that can get Stasis for the lock, Siege for protection, Detention Sphere for removal, Exploration for ramp or Sylvan Library for card draw.

• Pentad Prism: Probably the best ramp in this deck, tutored a lot on turn 1 with enlightened tutor when offered the possibility. Allows by itself a turn 3 Atraxa and additional ramp. Works incredibly well with Stasis, Winter Orb and Static Orb.

• Parallax Wave / Parallax Tide: Very strong removal. With Atraxa on the battlefield, we can keep the enchantment on 1 and it is essentially a 4:1 removal.

• Life from the Loam / Ramunap Excavator / Crucible of Worlds: Playing Wasteland each turn is one of the win conditions of this deck. These cards allow to attack the opponent's manabase turn by turn.

Meta choices:

• Linvala, Keeper of Silence: Crushes Yisan and any deck playing mana dorks.
• Trial of Ambition: Tutorable edict, especially strong against Geist decks.
• Liliana, the last Hope: Kills mana dorks and early hitters. Her main strength is in getting the emblem very fast with Atraxa out.

See the maybe board for more meta choices and optional cards / replacements.

Exclusions due to budget / availability, requires testing:

• Moat
• Chains of Mephistopheles

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Duel Commander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 71 - 0 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.71
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Project 32, FNM Hiveworld, ColCom1, Duel Commander