Atraxa, The Explosive Swarm

Commander / EDH Aggro Counters Four Color GWUB Saproling Tokens

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Land (35)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Calciform Pools
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mirrodin's Core
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Saltcrusted Steppe
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Instant (2)

• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift

Creature (27)

• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Jade Mage
• 1x Merfolk Skydiver
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Selesnya Guildmage
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Sigil Captain
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Zegana, Utopian Speaker
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Phytohydra
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Nemata, Grove Guardian
• 1x Vigor

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Ajani, the Greathearted
• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner
• 1x Garruk, Cursed Huntsman

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Mana Reflection

Artifact (10)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Empowered Autogenerator
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Akroma's Memorial

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Enchantment (5)

• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Ethereal Absolution
• 1x Lurking Predators

Creature (3)

• 1x Blightbeetle
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Land (1)

• 1x Aether Hub

Instant (1)

• 1x Second Harvest

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Chain Veil

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The deck is pretty straight forward. Swarm the battlefield with tokens and planeswalkers, get counters on them and proliferate them every endstep with Atraxa. Build your army bigger and bigger until they become unstoppable. With Doubling Season with one of the proliferation effects and any of the planeswalkers down, you can usually ultimate them on the next upkeep, if not the current turn. This can lead to some extremely broken combos.

Synergies:

Simple Card Draw Engines:

Rhystic Study A card that should be in every deck with even a splash of blue.

Awakening Zone + Skullclamp Every time an Eldrazi token enters the battlefield, it will likely have +1/+1 counters on it, so equip Skullclamp and sac it to draw 2 cards and produce 1 mana. You can also use Plaguemaw Beast to sac any creature to get the most value. That combo works like a Tezzeret's Gambit every turn.

Awakening Zone + Mentor of the Meek . Every upkeep you create an Eldrazi token, sacrifice as soon as it enters the battlefield to produce 1 mana and draw one extra card for free.

Escalating Mana Production

Astral Cornucopia / Everflowing Chalice / Empowered Autogenerator + Proliferation effects.

Calciform Pools / Dreadship Reef / Saltcrusted Steppe + Proliferation effects.

Doubling Season will double all of these counters.

Exponential Swarm

Cathars' Crusade + Tendershoot Dryad Every single upkeep a saproling token is created and then all your creatures get a +1/+1 counter.

Awakening Zone + Cathars' Crusade At the beginning of your upkeep, all creatures you control get +1/+1.

Cathars' Crusade + Mycoloth At the beginning of your upkeep, create an ungodly amount of saprolings. Then give every single creature you control a +1/+1 counter equal to the number of saprolings that entered the battlefield.

Having Sigil Captain / Master Biomancer / Doubling Season / Parallel Lives or Primal Vigor will throw this combo out of control.

Lets Break The Game

Step 1: Beastmaster Ascension + Any token producer. Every token you create, throw them at an opponent to get counters on Beastmaster.

Step 2: Akroma's Memorial + Bow of Nylea Now all of your tokens have deathtouch, flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste and protection from black and red.

Step 3: Use Mycoloth to devour all tokens you control and produce that many every turn.

Step 4: Bloodspore Thrinax + Cathars' Crusade As soon as Bloodspore enters the battlefield, devour all tokens again. Now every turn, all of your tokens enter the battlefield with X/X +1/+1 counters on them, give every single creature a +1/+1 counter equal to the number of them that entered the battlefield and now they're an unstoppable army.

Step 5: Venser, the Sojourner -1 ability. Now swing at everyone and gg.

Instantly Kill Everyone

Ultimate Vraska, Golgari Queen for the emblem. Now -1 Venser, the Sojourner on your swarm of saprolings.

Cast Triumph of the Hordes then -1 Venser, the Sojourner on your swarm. Then hit everyone with just enough damage to deal 10 infect.

Doubling Everything Every Turn

+1 Venser, the Sojourner and target Deepglow Skate with the flicker. Now every endstep, all counters get doubled.

Alternative Win Condition

Simic Ascendancy + Any card that creates +1/+1 counters or proliferates. This card can be a bomb out of nowhere. Especially with Bloodspore Thrinax on the battlefield.

Upkeep Proliferation

Plaguemaw Beast + Tendershoot Dryad Every upkeep, you create a saproling token. Sac it to proliferate, even during your opponents turn.

Awakening Zone + Plaguemaw Beast At the beginning of your upkeep you create an Eldrazi token and sacrifice it to proliferate everything.

Nearly Infinite Creature Removal

Parallax Wave + Any proliferation effects.

Awakening Zone + Grave Pact

Grave Pact + Plaguemaw Beast

Never Take Damage During Combat

Spike Weaver Pay (1), remove a counter and prevent all combat damage.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Cathars' Crusade + Mycoloth Awakening Zone + Grave Pact Awakening Zone + Mentor of the Meek Cathars' Crusade + Tendershoot Dryad Awakening Zone + Cathars' Crusade Akroma's Memorial + Bow of Nylea Bloodspore Thrinax + Cathars' Crusade Plaguemaw Beast + Tendershoot Dryad Awakening Zone + Plaguemaw Beast Grave Pact + Plaguemaw Beast Awakening Zone + Skullclamp
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 62 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.68
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Emblem Garruk, Cursed Huntsman, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Wolf 2/2 BG