Atraxa Counters Bonanza [EDH]

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Counters GWUB Infinite Combo

TPC

Creature (31)

• 1x Abzan Battle Priest
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Etched Oracle
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Ezuri, Claw of Progress
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Heroes' Bane
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter

Land (35)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Sunbond
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Artifact (9)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Civic Saber
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Pentad Prism
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (6)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Fun to play, fun to play against, get tons of creatures on the board, draw cards, get counters, go wild. Atraxa will often have more than 21 power from +1/+1 counters if unchecked by your opponents. The point of the deck is that it is resilient against control, goes wide, and has avoidance. So in a 1v1, you'll probably dominate against non-combo decks, as it gets more powerful the longer the game goes. It does little against combo decks that can launch quickly. This is a deck that wins around turns 7-8, and certainly dominates by turn 10. Again, its a 'fair deck' therefore not strictly competitive, but extremely fun.

Win Cons:

Unblockable Combat Damage, lots of it ;)

Infinite combos:

Sunbond or Archangel of Thune , plus Spike Feeder for infinite life gain and +1/+1 counters on all of your critters.

Sage of Hours plus Ezuri, Claw of Progress for infinite turns.

Deck Strengths:

Resilient: No individual creature matters, no individual counter matters. The idea is simply to get creatures on to the battlefield, get them a counter, and if Champion of Lambholt or Herald of Secret Streams is on the field they become unblockable threats.

Gain lots of life, making combat damage and non-infinite spell damage a non-issue.

Card advantage. This deck has it.

Deck Weaknesses:

Its a creature-based deck, which means sweepers will set you back a couple of turns, and if you play against an overly oppressive black-control deck you'll have a slog of a time digging yourself out of their trap. However, this deck was built to beat these sorts of control decks, and can do so with the right infrastructure.

There is only SwanSong for your counterspell, and only Cyclonic Rift and Anguished Unmaking for removal. The point of the deck was to be the creature deck against which the control decks fought and failed, as well as to be the best creature deck. This means that infinite combo decks are simply something it doesn't have an answer for. You might sideboard in some counterspells in place of returning creatures from your graveyard.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Experience Token, Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	New Deck Ideas, Deck Research, Commander Ideas