Hello I'm quite new to magic and the commander format. I could need some help with my new Atraxa Commander for multiplayer games. I bought Breed Lethality and changed already most of the Cards because the Creature heavy approach of the pre-constructed Deck seemed bad for multiplayer where the board is wiped every other turn. What is left is most of the artifact ramp package and landbase. The Deck is build on a budget obvious upgrades like the Duallands are too expensive for me at the moment. But If there are cheaper ways to improve the landbase I'm very open to suggestions. On the bottom I listed some cards that could be a great asset to the strategy of the deck. Overall I think the hard part is not to find good cards. But to decide which of them not to include.
I would be glad if a more experienced deck builder could give me some advice in generall and/or in response to the following questions:
-Are some of the proliferate cards I included just too bad?
-Did I go overboard with Tokens?
-how to deal with artifact hate and cyclonic rifts?
-after I slam down darksteel reactor I have to wait a whole turn to start proliferating. So even with the best setup it takes at least two turns to win. is that too slow?
Long-winded explanation of the deck below
Win conditions and the Proliferate Engine
My deck tries to abuse proliferate synergy to win with either
Darksteel Reactor
,
Azor's Elocutors
or Ichor Rats (in that order I guess). Because these cards would be very slow with just Atraxa. I included pretty much all the proliferate and Counter doubling cards I could find. This are a lot of cards to win but most of my deck tries to abuse the proliferate engine. Notable Cards that can put a clock on the table are Contagion Engine and Vorel of the Hull Clade. With Teferi, Temporal Archmage out they can activate twice to quickly get to the magic number. Deepglow Skate can double all kinds of counters from hand. Should all fail for some reason and the game devolves to a grind there should be still enough high value cards like Titan Forge,
Hoofprints of the Stag
and Kiora, the Crashing Wave to fight for the board. With Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
+
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
and Garruk Wildspeaker potential ways to close out the game.
Ramp
The artifact ramp alone seemed too slow and unreliable so I included some pretty standard green ramp cards like Cultivate, Kodama's Reach and Birds of Paradise. I also exchanged some of the less useful mana rocks for Everflowing Chalice, and Coalition Relic that can better take advantage of proliferate. Astral Cornucopia gets huge quickly in this deck and can provide insane amounts of mana with Teferi, Temporal Archmage or
Mana Bloom
is an enchantment that provides me with one colored mana every turn (with Atraxa out) and doesn't die to Vandalblast.
Draw
I got rid of most of the +1/+1 counter styled draw cards of the original deck. Only
Fathom Mage
remains. Instead I put in Necropotence and Mystic Remora as more reliable draw engines as well as
Etched Oracle
who seems to be made for a deck like this. Kiora, the Crashing Wave and Teferi, Temporal Archmage can draw cards as well.
Stall
To not die before my proliferate Engine and win con's are assembled I left in most of the board wipes of the pre constructed Deck and included Smokestack and some Token generators that use counters. If the big mana rocks are out
Catastrophe
can destroy all lands to give me more time to proliferate. Ethersworn Cannonist slows down most opponents and Simic Manipulator steals creatures.
The other cards in the deck are either tutors or utility to make the other components more reliable.
Cards I consider as strict a upgrades and will include if I get them:
Duneblast
-> Cyclonic Rift
Sublime Exhalation
-> Toxic Deluge
Hoofprints of the Stag
-> Luminarch Ascension
Cards I would try out/somehow squeeze in if I had them:
Doubling Season
Spike Weaver
Gyre Sage
Vampiric Tutor
Demonic Tutor
