Atraxa Counter-play

Commander / EDH* Battlecruiser Casual Counters GWUB Multiplayer

Chimerical

Land (33)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x The Elderspell

Creature (26)

• 1x Arena Rector
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Captain Sisay
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Soul Diviner
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Zameck Guildmage
• 1x Zur the Enchanter

Instant (6)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (4)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Oath of Nissa
• 1x Oath of Teferi
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (10)

• 1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes
• 1x Ajani Steadfast
• 1x Ajani, the Greathearted
• 1x Ajani Unyielding
• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

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Creature based deck where +1/+1 counters are quickly stacked and used through utility outlets to provide solutions to different problems.

Early Game Ramp:

As Foretold , Birds of Paradise , Farseek , Gyre Sage , Incubation Druid , Kodama's Reach , Sol Ring , Sylvan Caryatid , Sylvan Scrying , Weathered Wayfarer , Chromatic Lantern , Astral Cornucopia , Crystalline Crawler

+1/+1 Engine:

Ajani, Mentor of Heroes , Ajani Unyielding , Ajani Steadfast , Corpsejack Menace , Deepglow Skate , Doubling Season , Forgotten Ancient , Hadana's Climb  , Hardened Scales , Mikaeus, the Lunarch , Pir, Imaginative Rascal , Shalai, Voice of Plenty , Simic Ascendancy , Zameck Guildmage , Seedborn Muse (For opposition turn proliferating), Karn's Bastion , Evolution Sage , Ajani, the Greathearted , Contagion Engine

Answers:

Ajani Unyielding , Anguished Unmaking , Arcane Lighthouse , Assassin's Trophy , Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury , Simic Manipulator (Can easily steal commanders if ramped quick enough), Swords to Plowshares , Tamiyo, the Moon Sage , Vraska the Unseen , Walking Ballista , Sun Titan , Ashiok, Dream Render , Narset's Reversal , The Elderspell , Windgrace's Judgment

Card Fixing:

Ajani Unyielding , Captain Sisay , Demonic Tutor , Enlightened Tutor , Green Sun's Zenith , Oath of Nissa , Sylvan Library , Zur the Enchanter **, Worldly Tutor

*With the vast majority of included enchantments being under 3 CMC, Zur taking up a creature slot allows for a period of toolbox Zur grabbing answers and filters rather than going for the tron.

Draw Engine:

Fathom Mage , Rhystic Study , Sylvan Library , Tamiyo, Field Researcher , Zameck Guildmage , Soul Diviner , Necropotence , Phyrexian Arena

Win Cons:

Most victories/kills will be secured by either Commander damage or by swinging wide, Odric, Lunarch Marshal comes in as a power play for your established board state by sharing the rule soup of Atraxa with all of your creatures, opening you up for alternating between Main Phase 1 and 2 for getting more damage stuck to the board. Simic Ascendancy is naturally in the deck since it will most definitely be racking up counters per turn and will allow for quick combo wins in multiplayer rounds. Look out for any sort of combos you can pair with Deepglow Skate once your counters have hit 5 on Simic Ascendancy: Venser, the Sojourner for flicker, Spark Double for copying.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	R
Splash colors	B
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Elf Druid 1/1 G, Emblem Ajani Steadfast, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner