Insidious Growth

Commander / EDH Counters GWUB Infect Infinite Combo Multiplayer

Lazriel

Land (33)

• 1x Aether Hub
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 3x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mirrodin's Core
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 3x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Wooded Bastion

Artifact (10)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Brain in a Jar
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of the Suns

Creature (22)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Ichor Rats
• 1x Joiner Adept
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan *f-etch*
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Wall of Denial

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Collective Effort
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1x Vindicate

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Steady Progress
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Curator's Ward
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Privileged Position

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

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Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Bonds of Mortality

Artifact (1)

• 1x Magistrate's Scepter

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This is the first build ready draft for the Atraxa deck Alavaster helped me build. Big thanks to him for introducing me to the edh design process and competitive edh cards. This deck can do everything I think makes magic great. While not the goal, you can become virtually invincible and host a battle royale between the other players granting counters and countering spells as you wish. It still wants to play politically and pull at least a few of the pieces that you need go full ridiculous in order to win. Commander damage is strong with Atraxa. Vigilance is super sweet with her, and deathtouch makes it even sweeter.

Full Ridiculous Mode

Sideboard in Primal Command

Draw hand: Axebane Guardian, Freed from the Real, Sol Ring, Overgrown Battlement, Command Tower, Diabolic Revelation, Vivid Stream, Counterspell and draw Negate. Turn one play Vivid Stream, then Sol Ring. Turn two draw Reliquary Tower, then play command tower, and play Axebane Guardian. Next turn, draw Mystic Gate, play Mystic Gate, then Overgrown Battlement. Turn three, draw something, then play reliquary tower, play Freed from the Real on Axebane. Generate infinite mana, or really just enough to use Diabolic Revelation to tutor privledged position, Curator's Ward, Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Shalai, Voice if Plenty, Viral Drake, Capsize, Eternal Witness, Primal Command, Contagion Engine, Ichor Rats, Paradox Engine, Mystic Speculation, Ring of Three Wishes, and every control spell left in the deck. Use the control to ensure that you play Privileged Position with Curators Ward enchanting it, Avacyn, and Shalai. With those pieces in place, you can’t be the target of spells or abilities oponenets control, none of your permenants can be targeted by spells opponents control, and your permenants are indestructible. To make you at best temporarily vulnerable again your opponents will have to play something that inhibits the Hexproof on you and all your permenants, then Bonds of Mortality to remove indestructible and also destroy at minimum Avacyn and Privileged Position, and they’ll have to do it on their turns on turn three(or four if you played last) or you’ll just proliferate nine times with Viral Drake and kill them all before they can even touch you.

Next play Ichor Rats, Contagion Engine and then Capsize it and play it again until every opponents creatures has a -1/-1 counter on it, Viral Drake, Paradox Engine, Ring of Three Wishes, and Magistrate's Scepter. Now, everyone has 1 poison counter, all creatures your opponents control have -1/-1 counters, you can proliferate infinite times with Viral Drake, Ring of Three Wishes can be used to tutor anything else you might need, and can be untapped by triggering Paradox Engine with Mystic Specualtion or Capsize. Using Capsize you decide what people play, you have infinite recursion by Capsizing Eternal Witness, graveyard recycling with Primal Command, and infinite turns with Magistrate’s Scepter. Every counter on anything can be proliferated as you choose and individually. Use Capsize and graveyard recursion to play hardline control and boom. You control every facet of the game. You are a God.

Oct-5-2018 FNM update!

I went to an FNM event to do some Guilds of Ravnica unboxing with a friend and while I was there I was able to trade for a huge number of important pieces for this deck! The deck is now 45% complete!

Aquired pieces:

Atraxa, Praetor’s Voice Ghave, Guru of Spores Mycoloth Inexorable Tide Contagion Engine Avacyn, Angel of Hope Shalai, Voice of Plenty Axebane Guardian Overgrown Battlement Tamiyo, Field Researcher(with Emblem!) Diabolic Revalation Curator’s Ward Cathar’s Crusade Forgotten Ancient Reyhan, Last of the Abzan Counterspell Negate Syncopate Utter End Swords to Plowshares Fog Putrefy Capsize Increasing Ambition Read the Bones Swiftfoot Boots Navigator’s Compass Manalith Fertilid Rupture Spire Gemstone Mine Mana Confluence Reliquary Tower

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 1 Rares 23 - 1 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Energy Reserve, Saproling 1/1 G