A Spark Awakens

Commander / EDH* Lost_Ascendant

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Cash Monies —April 12, 2017

I finally did a large trade in of bulk and random cards and bought a Mana Drain and Eureka specifically for this deck.

Mana Vault ---> Mana Drain sure the colorless ramp helps but I often found it needed to be colored.

Curse of the Swine ----> Eureka

Rhystic Study or any large draw spell sets your hand and hilarity will always follow. I may lose but who the hell expects this to show up!?

areos17 says... #1

+1 for being the awful kind of person that has a bad-ass super-friends deck lol

December 4, 2016 8:45 p.m.

_Delta_ says... #2

Have you seen Ajani, the Unshakable? It's certainly awesome for Edh.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/aether-revolt-spoilers-ajani-the-unshakable

December 4, 2016 9:16 p.m.

Lost_Ascendant says... #3

Thanks!

and yes I saw him, he is a great utility walker that I will start testing.

December 4, 2016 11:47 p.m.

LanceJade says... #4

I'm not an expert on superfriends, but I do have a few suggestions for consideration:1. Call the Gatewatch for searching out which ever planeswalker you need most2. Chain Veil because being a terrible person can be fun.3. Oath of Jace (Late game scying), Gideon (extra loyaty counters doubled by doubling season), Nissa (In case of getting the wrong mana) and Liliana (Because zombies).

December 5, 2016 12:27 a.m.

Lost_Ascendant says... #5

The oaths are unnecessary, I have various ways to fix mana. I removed The Chain Veil already as it is simply, a win-more card and if I'm going infinite with it then I could have won some time before it.

The only oath that I might add is Oath of Gideon but space is already tight. Same goes of Call the Gatewatch, good card but tight deck space

December 5, 2016 12:37 a.m.

ThoAlmighty says... #6

To me, Oath of Nissa seems like the only one worth running. Color fixing isn't always a problem, but having a large portion of my deck effectively requiring colorless mana is a huge help, plus it has the best effect on its own. I wouldn't bother with any of the others.

December 5, 2016 1:01 a.m.

Lost_Ascendant says... #7

I agree and went as far as to remove Oath of Nissa from a previous iteration. They just aren't good enough.

December 5, 2016 2:06 a.m.

kestral287 says... #8

On the subject of Oaths, the new Oath of Ajani will be worth consideration.

In my experience, Oath of Nissa is the best Oath in standard and the worst in this kind of EDH deck. The mana is essentially perfect; even casting the triple-colored walkers like Sorin Markov is easy. So all the Oath is is a redraw, and not even an unconditional one. Why am I not running Ponder instead?

The best is by far Oath of Gideon, which lets you do some very cheeky things. The two tokens can actually be relevant when you need to stave off some early attacks, and then the extra point of loyalty keeps walkers alive, makes ulting easier, and is extremely relevant under Doubling Season-- when a walker like Teferi gets to live through its ultimate, that's a big deal. I'd run it over Prismatic Omen. Your mana is already extremely perfect; Omen should not be needed. In a more budget four- or five- color deck it's fine, but here it's a wasted card slot.

Anguished Unmaking is much more worthwhile than Vindicate. Unless you seriously need to target lands for removal, Unmaking being instant speed /and/ exiling makes it absurdly more powerful. The three life means essentially nothing with Atraxa; that's less than a hit for her. And in cases where your board control has made her useless, you're not getting attacked so your life doesn't matter anyway.

I'm not sure where you could find space for it, but I adore Nissa, Vastwood Seer. She's a cheap three-mana walker that makes sure you hit your land drop and then starts drawing you cards. Every now and then I've won games off making Ashaya too, and her ultimate is very good when you get down to 1v1 scenarios or you're just comfortably safe from board wipes.

December 26, 2016 7 p.m.

Lost_Ascendant says... #9

I'll try the Oath swap

December 26, 2016 8:49 p.m.

Spoosky says... #10

Could be Norn's Annex for Ghostly Prison or Propaganda

January 2, 2017 1:38 p.m.

neither protect your planeswalkers, only the player.

January 2, 2017 2:14 p.m.

_Delta_ says... #12

Another little card from Aether Revolt that looks awesome for most Atraxa decks. Some at wizards clearly like Atraxa as a commander for sure. I know I'm going to get a foil one of this cool little card for mine.

http://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoiler/winding-constrictor/

January 2, 2017 4:55 p.m.

that's a decent card

January 2, 2017 5:04 p.m.

CAinhorn says... #14

Are you going to update this deck with the newest Aether Revolt cards?

January 14, 2017 11:11 p.m.

Yes, I'm texting proxies in a few games next week and then I will update.

January 14, 2017 11:17 p.m.

CAinhorn says... #16

I am curious as to how Planar Bridge will work.

January 16, 2017 1:33 a.m.

It seems a bit slow and clunky but it could be interesting once I have major mana with Mana Reflection so i'll test it too

January 16, 2017 1:40 p.m.

kestral287 says... #18

Planar Bridge is garbage. If you can tutor even once in a deck with Doubling Season + Tamiyo you should be able to win the game. Why spend 14 mana on a tutor? Dark Petition without Spell Mastery + casting the Doubling Season you tutored is ten mana.

There are decks where the Bridge is good-- combine it with a lot of artifact mana and Paradox Engine and you just get to win the game basically regardless of what's in your deck-- but it's insanely inefficient in a deck like this.

January 16, 2017 5:23 p.m.

SageOfHours says... #19

January 16, 2017 6:40 p.m.

trobaldo says... #20

i just wanted to say that i really like your build and was wondering if you could take a look at mine+1

atraxa proxy

January 19, 2017 1:11 p.m.

CAinhorn says... #21

Have you taken a look at replacing something for Oath of Ajani?

January 20, 2017 1:54 a.m.

CAinhorn says... #22

Have you perhaps adding Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, I find that is a good card in general to reshuffle your graveyard back into your library (counteracts pesky mill decks) in addition to refilling your hand with some nice card draw if cast.

January 20, 2017 1:58 a.m.

CAinhorn says... #23

*Have you thought of perhaps adding

January 20, 2017 2 a.m.

I tested oath and the cost reduction was underwhelming. I used to have a titan in the deck for that reason but my meta has a lot of bribery/stealing turn decks so I removed it.

January 20, 2017 8:34 a.m.

kestral287 says... #25

Yeah, on Oath of Ajani the card is only good if you have a reasonable creature component. There are Atraxa decks where it's sound (I've fallen in love with the card myself), but you need to be able to use both halves of it for it to do anything. It feels wrong here.

I'm still maintaining that Anguished Unmaking > Vindicate. I'm much more afraid of threats that I have to remove immediately to stop a combo and threats that are indestructible than I am of threats that happen to be lands.

How's Norn's Annex tested for you? It's always felt medium from here but maybe it's better in this deck than I think it is.

January 20, 2017 10:04 a.m.