Yes she is an incredibly fun blink commander.

I made an Atraxa with all the bounce spells and "Put target permanent on top of library" cards. It's quite effective in 1v1 but not so much in a group setting.

you have certainly made atraxa funny

Casual is when no one plays the cards I don't like 😠

I was thinking shield counters or something. If that would work

Just found your channel, and i must ask a clarifying questionare you a 3/3 Elk, or are you THE 3/3 Elk made by Oko and therefore, are you secretly Kenrith in disguise

I play atraxa with no counters 😂, just value soup.😂

Yes, just build her as an energy commander. Energy is measured un counters, which proliferate. Energy is less "feels-bad" and more socially acceptable. The energy costs are balanced according to non-proliferate sources, which allows for some sneaky explosive and fun plays. It also has great ways to finish the game, along with aggro via +1/+1 counters, or fun options such as Helix Pinnacle (the green card that lets you put mana into counters, and if it gets 100, you win).

3/3 ELK : „Good luck untapping with her“ Vigilance : am I a joke to you? 2:31

Pharika was pretty incredible to me when I first saw it, when I wasn't yet playing but would pass time looking at random cards (and sometimes read comments about them), eventually doing so got me back into the game. Pharika to me was cool because I have always loved token generators, and Pharika isn't a bad one. I like the idea of farming Constellation triggers, it seems like the kind of thing the deck should be doing. FWIW I think Pharika is probably about a mid-tier God, but I'm of the opinion that most of the Gods are actually pretty strong as Commanders, as long as their ability isn't absolute crap. OG Purphy has to be the strongest, but it's harder to decide which is literally the second strongest, maybe TBD Heliod, for the combo stuff?

My atraxa deck is no counters. Its actually an artifact recursion/thopter deck that i just needed the colors for. If i were to be serious it should probably be a sidar/silas deck.

No snail?

One of my favorite decks is Atraxa featuring as many energy counter cards as I can throw in. I can’t wait to boost it when Aetherdrift drops.

Wingfold Pteron and Goldberry, River-Daughter offer so many more optional counter types, along with Unexpected Fangs. Adding keywords with counters is fun!

I don’t understand why KZbinrs insist on disliking cards simply on the basis that they’re good.

When coming back to Magic, I pulled the New Capenna Atraxa, and I'm a sucker for New Capenna. So I hunted for ideas and nonsense, and for a little while, I was trying to make Energy work. It... was bad. i played bad, the deck was bad, but it was comically so. Atraxa was a removal magnet, but the deck didn't do a lot when she lived. Props to the Vivid lands, though, for basically being all colors all the time. I took it apart just in time for a bunch of new energy toys, but I have no regrets. I learned a lot about synergy, and red got all the best battery-powered toys.

i wanted a "Danse Macabre" Deck in Golgari. I tried Glissa the Traitor but it was always bound to Killing enemy Creatures. i Think i just found my new Commander for Danse Macabre with all the "Leaves" gy cards. ty

So let me get this right. An Atraxa deck. Build around the mechanic introduce in a New Capenna set(wotc please make a return to capenna). WHERE SHE DIE. IN OTHER TO KEEP HER ON THE BOARD LONGER????

I realy like shield counters and hope they revisit them at some pount.

I know this is supposed to be an actually kinda good deck, but my silly Atraxa idea is just putting as many different kinds of counters into the decks as possible. In my Endstep I'll proliferate my Acorn Counter, my Shield Counter, my Oil Counter, my two +1/+1 counters, my Planeswalker Loyalty Counter, my Saga Counter, my Book counter, my Brick counter, etc.

What about level up cards and storage counter lands

Best atraxa I ever saw was jitte Voltron. The whole idea is to find lost and umezavas jitte. It always finds and protects the jittes. Gives atraxa protection, unblockable and double strike. Double strike and proliferate make the charge counters on the jitte just crazy. With rule of law effects, jitte abilities become more powerful and control the board Effects that force players to attack only with one creature usually means that atraxa player is unattackable. Finisher is combat but lost jitte and simic ascendeny have such a cool synergy also. Reanimate/play atraxa, equip it for free, get a huge amount of charge counters, control the board.

I've had an Atraxa deck in my head that's no +1/+1 or poison or other blatant value, only Spore counters for Fungus creatures (With Paradox Haze! A fun one missing from all the Fungus commanders)

Please give us the Niv Supreme video, I've been trying to build it for sooo long

This deck actually rusn pretty close to a theory craft I had, which was Atraxa spellslinger, with the 5 or so charge counter slinger cards. Obviously things like Dragonscale Elite help with consistency, but it's very funny I'm not the only person to go "counter deck.... I think I heard spellslinger" when brewing Atraxa

Love your videos! My thought with Atraxa would've had to be charge counters.

I've got the jankiest charge counters deck w/ Atraxa. I must admit I have a superfriends deck but to be fair it's one of my first serious commanders and I can't let go.

Two favorite atraxa piles: keywords matters, and spore counters / fungus tribal

This is the most hilarious deck I’ve ever seen. Least of all is the sheer lore hilarity of giving Atraxa, who was formerly a CAPENNAN Angel in what I imagine were Bant Colors a shield counter mechanic (a New Capenna Bant mechanic). Thus essentially giving us a Glimpse of Atraxa as she was prior to compleation, where she lost herself after shielding the people of the Capenna from the Phyrexians by sacrificing herself, thus being a living shield counter.

I built a blink falco, you blink things like proud pack rhino for value, but you end up with the same joke of an absolutely unremovable commander

7:46 Pariah should work well against a scute swarm, you'd only remove 1 counter because combat damage is all dealt simultaneously

I'm midway through brewing a falco spara counters deck and now when I play it my friends are going to think I got the idea from you god damnit

I already have a budget Sultai Energy deck with Xavier Sal as the commander so Atraxa Energy was my first thought in this whole thought experiment

Ive always wanted to built an Atraxa deck around the most random one-off types of counters. Brick counters from Amonkhet, Vanishing counters, etc. Some cards could be quite strong while still being very silly, such as Four Knocks, Crack in Time, As Foretold, Rotating Fireplace, etc. 😂

I PRAY we get to see gameplay content of these bad Atraxa's going at each other in a 4 Atraxa pod

Not if you playing against it

Who the heck plays mana leak??

Alternate Title: I Added Atraxa to the Bedecked Brokers Precon

i don't want to sound disrespectful to something you did in the video two times so i'll just leave a neutral but positive 👍

:3

I don't know how interesting or unique the deck would be necessarily, but one way to spice up an Atraxa list is to go literally all-in on counters. Ergo, your deck cannot have any cards that do not interact with or mention counters. Want a board-wipe? Filigree Sylex. Want ramp? Start stacking those storage counters. Recursion? Vat of Rebirth. If you're gonna have the most versatile counter-strategy commander out there, you better be using that for literally everything. Again, how fun that would or wouldn't be, I don't know, because your wincon would still just probably be poison or +1/+1s, but it'd at least make day-to-day interactions like spot-removal and whatnot just that little bit more involved.

Atraxa fading tribal, is almost good, i believe its 15 fading cards and 13 are usable the problem is the (probably) best one isnt legal making it much weirder

You cutting off Rebel was mean 😅 I really liked your deck and the premise! I love yours for the unbreakable removal magnet and the first one for its inclusion of rare counters. I'm looking forward to the other submissions!

Wizardcycling is something I never knew existed and it’s just made my combo list insane thank you 😂

Personally, I never played Atraxa, and probably will never play her. First, she´s kind expensive, and even if I go a bidget route, color fixing for 4 and 5 colors will eat most of the deck´s prize. I also try to avoid the popular commanders in favor of other missrepresented cards, only exception for now being The Wise Mothman, but that was mainly because that precon had many all the things I like about Sultai and Fallout.

I really want to make level counters work. I hope they bring level cards back someday.

My first thought was tamiyo field researcher secret commander

Hipster boy lmao

Personally my fantasy route for Atraxa was to make it a secret commander deck for Perrie the Pulverizer in order to get as many nonsensical types of counters as possible. Edit: so apparently we went a bit similar just with different focuses though I will watch this deck with great interest now!

I don't know why people don't talk about shield counters more, ngl. If you aren't throwing the shielded creature into combat, the sheer disadvantage of throwing two removal spells at a creature to kill it makes shield counters border on being as effective as indestructible for keeping your value creatures alive. Frankly I hope wotc doesn't push shield counter accessability anymore but it seems inevitable at this point. Anyways this was a solid build, since we do have so few shield counter cards there were some fun limitations here and the overkill of loading shield counters on atraxa is funny.