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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Legendary Creature — Cat Warlock
Vigilance
At the beginning of each end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, you draw a card.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with converted mana cost/mana value 3 or greater, this deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.
Mortlocke on How Did Atraxa Fall So …
10 hours ago
Another tangent thought regarding Atraxa: Reality fracture has easily the best plainswalker support since War of the Spark. So many bonkers cards that can potentially revitalize the Superfriends deck archetype. Sadly Atraxa will likely be defeated by Tam, the Possibility for the de facto superfriends commander - but that doesn't mean everyone will just switch over because of that. 5 color decks have notoriously expensive manabases that can easily be uncooporative for any given game - regardless of how much money you sunk into it. That barrier to entry alone can make some potential deck builders hesitant to adopt Tam.
Regardless, for those who stick with Atraxa for a Superfriends commander they are absolutely eating good.As for Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
- (I don't pilot her, ive only played against her so don't @ me) her archetypes (control, spellslinger, lifegain) seem somewhat pigeon holed into roughly similar experiences across the board:
- cast big thing.
- capitalize on big thing resolving.
- ???.
- profit.
While i'm sure having a simple game pattern is good for newer players, I'm of the mind that the experience will get samey and players will start branching out for something new. Atraxa doesn't have that problem. She can be built in very different ways and will continue to draw in interest over time. But that's just my two cents anyway. Thoughts? Counterpoints?
Mortlocke on How Did Atraxa Fall So …
6 days ago
In my infinite glaze of one of my favorite commanders: Atraxa, Praetors' Voice I forgot to mention another major theme of hers: Infinite turns. Contagion Engine + Magistrate's Scepter
, and Myojin of Towering Might
+
Sage of Hours
. I guess the point here is that Atraxa has many different ways you can build her. Again, I'm confident that it's the powerful marketing behind aesthetic + general strength behind Y'shtola, Night's Blessed's popularity. But only time will tell if Y'shtola has staying power once her list is "solved".
Mortlocke on How Did Atraxa Fall So …
1 week ago
From my experience DemonDragonJ, players who pick Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as their commanders tend to have one or two answers as to why they chose her: 1. She is too well designed given her color pie as her abilities seamlessly feed into one another. Or 2. Never underestimate the spending power of Anime nerds when it comes to cat girls.
I think that cards with the Anime aesthetic just isn't really something that most established players want to spend their money on. But as time moves on the newer players drawn into the game will eclipse said established players and will go on to dictate the art direction of certain sets or chase rares in order to maximize revenue generation. I don't like the Anime aesthetic in magic. I don't play DBZ, One Piece, Bleach, Digimon, Yu-gi-oh, or Pokemon. I want Magic to have it's own seemingly more mature aesthetic. BUT I also want the game to be popular and healthy so if it means we need anime to do it, so be it.
Also RiotRunner789 you definitely have an interesting point - I agree that the popularity of each commander on the list is relative to how EDHREC purges and manages the various decks and databases they use for their metrics. To my knowledge they don't track any information from tappedout (if i'm wrong, I hope a moderator would correct me). So who knows what commanders are actually the most popular.
RiotRunner789 on How Did Atraxa Fall So …
1 week ago
He's talking about the EDHREC list. For reference:
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed- 53,694
The Ur-Dragon- 50,668
Edgar Markov- 50,595
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice- 44,420
I don't think the drop is as big as you may think. EDHREC culls older decks from the count, which helps newer decks. Additionally, Ur and Ed have been near the top (Ur occasionally above) near Atraxa for years.
The interesting part of the list to me, is not that Atraxa is 4th, but the relatively new Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is first.
DemonDragonJ on How Did Atraxa Fall So …
1 week ago
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice was the most popular EDH general for many years, but she now is only fourth, and, while I am somewhat upset at how three other legendary creatures have surpassed her, I am more upset by how significant the difference is between her and the next general, so I would like to ask why she is so far behind the top three.
I understand that Tarkir: Dragonstorm provided plenty of amazing cards for The Ur-Dragon, that the third Innistrad block provided plenty of new cards for Edgar Markov, and that Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is overall very powerful, so each of them greatly rose in the ranking, but why did Atraxa not do the same when Edge of Eternities provided plenty of cards that had the proliferate mechanic or otherwise cared about counters? Is she simply a more difficult general around which to build a deck?
What does everyone else say, about this? How has Atraxa fallen so far behind the next general in EDH? I am very interested to hear your thoughts, on this matter.
