Atraxa Digs your Grave

Commander / EDH*

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Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 2x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rishadan Port
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (17)

• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Esper Charm
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Sultai Charm
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (8)

• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (8)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Languish
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Vindicate

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Scavenging Ooze

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Sorcery (4)

• 1x Living Wish
• 1x Manifold Insights
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Temporal Mastery

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Gideon Jura

Creature (3)

• 1x Artificer's Assistant
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Skullwinder

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Omniscience

Instant (2)

• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Reclaim

Land (1)

• 1x Ghost Quarter

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The deck revolves around stalling long enough for you to either end the game with an infinite combo or use one of the game altering ults of a planeswalker. it's more than likely that you will win with the combo since it is more consistent and easy to pull off. Always remember that your Life is also a resource!

Updates Show

• Artificer's Assistant replaced by Ramunap Excavator (04-30-2018 See update #1 for reasons)

• Mystic Confluence replaced by Linvala, Keeper of Silence (05-13-2018 see update #3)

• Birds of Paradise replaced by Ethersworn Canonist (05-13-2018 see update #3)

• Mystifying Maze replaced by Rishadan Port (05-13-2018 see update #3)

• Took out Stax due to inefficiency. (mainly not enough stax cards)

Description will be updated with explanation of cards.

The sideboard are cards that needs to be in the deck but i haven't figured out what to take out yet and suggestions would be nice

Drawbacks:

(these are some of the problems I have noticed with the deck)

• The deck is very vulnerable against aven mincensor or any card that punishes you when you are tutoring.

• Like any control deck if you don't get enough removal for early game you will be destroyed.

• If you are unlucky enough to not get any of the dig engines (which is very unlikely) you are screwed. Don't keep a hand without a draw engine imo.

Odd Picks Reasoning:

• Umezawa's Jitte the reason this is here is because the abilities are good and there are enough token production and creatures in the deck to support it from getting counters. You can always cast your general and equip jitte

• Bitterblossom This card is in a weird spot for this deck I agree there are other good cards i can add instead of this but I like the token production value of bitterblossom since you can always gain life with your general. If you want to cut something out of the deck this is one of the first cards that you would most likely cut out.

• Inkmoth Nexus It's an alternative win condition

• Karn, Scion of Urza I am currently playtesting baby Karn. In theory he can protect himself by making a dude that is strong enough since there are enough artifacts in the deck and can help with the deck digging for your win condition.

Card Synergies and infinite combos:

Original

• Artificer's Assistant + Sensei's Divining Top Both cards are already good all by themselves but if both cards are on the field fixing your draws have never been easier

• Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth Rings of Brighthearth is already very good in the deck because of the amount of active abilities that are used in the deck. With Basalt Monolith it creates an infinite colorless mana which can be used for a lot of things

• If you can manage to ult with both tamiyo planeswalker the game is over. :D

Card Considerations Show

04-30-2018

• Counterspells I removed the majority of counter magic in the deck because I think it would be much more beneficial to do a lock over countering your way to your combos. if you really prefer counter magic just switch them out with the stax cards (winter orb, static orb, tangle wire, damping sphere, ensnaring bridge, armageddon)

• Spell Crumple I would prefer to put this in the mainboard but i still need to do more testing. if considered in the main it would replace Mystic Confluence

05-18-2018

• returned counter magic in the deck due to it just being stronger than stax.

• added necropotence for more draws.

• took out scavenging ooze because not enough interaction with graveyard in playgroup.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth Artificer's Assistant + Sensei's Divining Top
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 1 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.62
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	EDH, Future EDH