The most unique way to build Atraxa (technically) | EDH

[@theArcosa]

This video is a group challenge! Stay tuned for more Atraxa videos from my friends (will update as they get posted): ⭐ 3/3 Elk's Shield Counters: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpPXhnyeZZ5ola8 ⭐️ Morgan’s Voltron: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5CQenyJfbSoacU ⭐️ Trinket Mage’s Rampless Aggro: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIPUoIyDbchqh5o ⭐️ Rebell’s Eldrazi: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pajGYoSpoLelaM0 Coming soon: ⭐ www.youtube.com/@maldhound

[@RENEG4DE4NGEL]

You missed Valor Counters a la Intrepid Adversary. Swap in for Sol Ring.

[@tiobridge841]

Unironically, I think you should cut Sol Ring for a Bird of Paradise. They're both one-drops and the BoP will make it easier to summon Atraxa on turn four, as opposed to the Sol Ring that only works if you draw other ramp cards

[@SireBab]

Are you guys going to play them against each other? It would be really funny to see the chaos when four atraxas are on the board and can all proliferate each counter on the board.

[@SirKrrrapsalot]

I found this in my recommended feed and i understand why cause his video is perfect! I love the execution of the concept, great work and i'm excited to watch more stuff you've made

[@mxdbrry0250]

I made a hydra tribal deck with Atraxa as my first and only build of her. It’s pretty fun to always have what I call a “perfect blocker” and “removal magnetic” to support hydras. Giving hydras white also gives them access to white staples and damning verdict.

[@theArcosa]

@@mxdbrry0250 I love this idea! Kalonian Hydra has been one of my favorite cards ever since it was printed. I’m not using it to its fullest potential currently, but the thought of the good ol’ days makes me want to build another +1/+1 deck.

[@mxdbrry0250]

@ Kalonian hydra is a MVP of the deck for sure. The best card tho is one that went under the radar in MH3 called Nyxborn Hydra. It has a bestow ability that that can make Atraxa insanely oppressive. Preciate the like and cool video idea!

[@royalcollectables]

Yes I do too I call it hail hydra!!

[@KomradeKrisis1701]

I imagine that Atraxa’s tendency to be a removal magnet makes Gargos, Vicious Watcher perform even better than it usually does 😂😂

[@Kryptnyt]

It's actually horrible that she's the best fungus commander

[@geeknseek]

These kind of decks rule because you get to play a lot of cards you wouldn't normally play

[@epicdude8742]

What if instead of Mystic Remora, you used one of the cumulative upkeep cards that scale on your age counter amount? Phyrexian Etchings is a lot more useful than normal when you can draw two cards on your first end step where it has an age counter. Vexing Sphinx can similarly give you more draw than it costs in discards. Hibernation's End might be my favorite though, as you effectively have two degrees of control over how big of a creature you tutor out. You can go from 1 to 3 to 5 and so on, or opt out of proliferating for any even mana value creatures you want to fetch. In any case, great video - I hope the deck does well!

[@SwedeRacerDC]

I like Mystic Remora if you use anything that can subtract counters for benefit. Falco Spara for instance. It is a unique counter and a valuable card.

[@TheAlmightyGoiter]

Personally, I've built atraxa 11-12 times, all different themes. Never played her once lol. This is a very unique take, and very fun to connect with the unique rulings video.

[@theArcosa]

She’s #1 on EDHREC for a reason! Of all the Atraxa builds I’ve played with, I’ve only piloted her maybe twice before I took the deck apart.

[@TheAlmightyGoiter]

​@@theArcosa she's surprisingly fun to build around. Proliferation is a very stretchy mechanic. I usually shy away from the more popular commanders but maybe I will play her after watching this. Unrelated, my friend just built their first commander deck, and it was orzhov bats! I immediately shared your bat video with them ❤️

[@RENEG4DE4NGEL]

This comment hints at a hidden truth: Atraxa is #1 because people brew her to death on paper, not because they actually have the decks constructed or even own a single copy of her. I have one Atraxa brew and it is my actual Atraxa deck.

[@KomradeKrisis1701]

This is my favourite of all the Atraxa build challenge decks I’ve seen so far. Huge kudos!

[@rubenhunt3196]

This is very similar to a mono-blue Chisei deck I built. It is a massive pain to keep track of all the weird counters going around, but it's probably my favorite deck for how wacky it is

[@grantmurdock7385]

Endless Scream's errata is hilarious, I've never thought about that

[@joemontondo9113]

A friend once said there weren't enough uniquely named counters to make Perrie the Pulverizer good so I made a spread sheet of all the uniquely named counters in Bant... It's up around 130 now...

[@SwedeRacerDC]

Storm of Forms is actually really good. Any board wipe that works very one sidedly and gives you selection to remove the best things are great. I say this as someone who has built this deck, because I had two Bant decks and wanted to upgrade Perrie to a 4C deck using Atraxa. Working towards the 32 challenge, and this is a fun and unique way to build it. I opted for a little less unique counters and more things that generate more types of counters. Like Crystalline Giant and one of the Elspeth's. Either way, it was a super fun and unique way to build the deck. It opens up access to unique lands as well. There's one that uses gemstone counters or something to produce any color. Normally you only have 3 activations, but if you proliferate, it's got endless uses and that's excellent in a 4 color deck.

[@bassfingas11]

You could use "finality counters" and move them onto your opponent's creatures. You could move/remove the "age counters" therefore not have to pay increasingly each upkeep

[@oneproplanet]

May i suggest Reluctant Role Model?

[@constexprThoughts]

This made me put a "like, comment and subscribe" counter on your video!

[@theArcosa]

@@constexprThoughts Hoping to proliferate them!

[@constexprThoughts]

​@@theArcosa Oh, I found the proliferate button, they mislabelled it as "share"!

[@Linkdude74]

I BUILT THIS YEARS AGO HELL YEAH! Atraxa unique counters was such a fun project to work on when I did it years ago and I love seeing others try this out as well.

[@Linkdude74]

Also, because I built it years ago there have been many new counters that have come out ever since I took the deck apart. I ran into the "I don't care what your theme is, it's Atraxa so you're the threat" issue and didn't want to try and get people to listen anymore lol.

[@makeshift2666]

I have made an Atraxa stickers deck before. She proliferated the ticket counters. It wasn't good lol.

[@theArcosa]

@@makeshift2666 You should try Rocco > secret Norin with stickers!

[@justass3001]

@@theArcosa how does that work exactly?

[@TLWHDX]

I solely exist to proliferate filibuster counters

[@maidenless_tarnished]

It's funny that when I first started playing, Atraxa's art really stood out to me. Took 5 years to eventually build her and I made an Explore/Plot/Adventure theme deck cause I too am a deck building hipster😅

[@TheVoyagingSatyr]

This is probably the most unique thing anyone could do with Atraxa that makes even a lick of sense. I'm not sure if it could get any more unique than this

[@igorbrigljevic6362]

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.

[@theArcosa]

@@igorbrigljevic6362 That’s super cool and niche!

[@TheHadMatter01]

I run an Incubator token Atraxa deck and use Mana dorks like Kami of Whispered Hopes and Gyre Sage, as well as mana rocks like Replicating Ring, Everflowing Chalice, and Astral Cornucopia.

[@joedoe7572]

That sounds cool. How is it?

[@gijsvandezande8118]

I finished my Atraxa build last week, got to play the deck for the first time last weekend. I built it in the same way as you did here, but not necessarily with as many unique counters as possible. I just wanted to play some weird counters, and chose the ones that seemed most fun to me. A lot of the cards do match with your deck though. When I pulled out Atraxa, the table started to moan about it already, but when we started playing they all looked at all the cards I played with a lot of interest. Was a blast to play with (and to play against, if I'm to believe my opponents).

[@Vuohenmor]

Neat, Atraxa Bowl is back in town though I am kinda surprised Musician couldn’t make the list or the video- Multiple music counters don’t do much, but a funny tax is a tax.

[@Sudoamber]

Reminds me of my first atraxa deck, also built around weird counters, but not to this extent. Parallax Wave (fading counters to exiles things) was an all star.

[@rulamagic]

Fishing Atraxa is so funny! If I were to do this challenge I would do Fishing Pole as secret commander and have Atraxa go fishing finding ways to absolutely abuse Fishing Pole to the max.

[@truth285]

I built mine as “unique counters matter.” Presently, I am up to 34 unique counters.

[@ShotofDespresso]

I'm surprised Night Dealings isn't in the decklist. It an enchantment that makes theft counters whenever any source you control deals damage to an opponent, and then lets you tutor for 2BB and X theft counters where X is the tutored card's mana value.

[@theArcosa]

@@ShotofDespresso I thought about it, but it costs at least 8 mana and a successful attack to tutor your first thing, which you still have to cast! It’s definitely neat though!

[@derAlphabet]

Always cut sol ring 😊

[@Anonlyso]

Once tried to do the Hipster Grouphug Atraxa build a couple years back (copied from Commander Cookout's Turbo Fog Atraxa style) to do "proliferate enemy counter" shenanigans, tho now that Xavier Sal, and later Ms. Bumble Flower came in, I'm likely to split the difference, tho I might miss out on white proliferate shenanigans. Very happy to see another real good use for Unique Proliferate with Unique Counters Only (and also seeing a couple cards I saw on scryfall for my own is neat). One of the other tech specic to mine would've been getting out a Kros while handing out counters with a sheltering ancient or even a forgotten ancient (as well as other Group Hug +1/+1 shenanigans). Alongside stuff like Generous Patron, you could've really pushed the Support theme if only to diversify any of the more generic +1/+1 stuff. Still might be hard to judge Power and Consistency considering just how reliant on "rando specific counter" you need to keep track off, but if you were to cut anything between "bad counters" or "do nothing when proliferate", you could just increase your Proliferation tech for consistencies sake.

[@dartspragg2879]

I built an attraxa as a "oops all fogs" deck the land has charge counters on them it's built to be second place

[@ljlk8583]

I've always been interested in Perrie the pulveriser for this exact use. I want to make a deck that uses every different kind of counter I can

[@michaelpsmith3861]

I use crystalline giant's counter order to keep track of counters for my falco spara deck, with a copy of it on the side to display what counter is what, in 1-10 on a d10 above the counted dice.

[@Rakushael]

Did something like this years ago; avoiding infect, +1/+1 counters, energy, sagas, etc.... just proliferating interesting counters on cards that would otherwise be pretty much useless. I'll admit that I didn't specifically restrict myself to unique counters, however.

[@jacksonhessler5038]

The first card that comes to mind is Herald of Leshrac. Much better use of age counters than mystic remora

[@rbruch98]

I have mine as something of a "Counter Tribal"... Transmogrifying wand, As Foretold, Oracle's Vault, Wishclaw Talisman, Umezawa's Jitte. Could get silly with Indominus Rex, Alpha and The Ozolith tossed in for good measure.

[@archangelalchemist]

4:48 I'm going to say yes. I've got a few decks where I've given myself restrictions, such as a Riku deck that only has cards I can copy (no Sol Ring or any other mana rock there), and it's always been a lot of fun to see where that takes me.

[@RipDeathriteShaman]

Keep up the good work boss. Hope you see some success with this

[@loudenmalachy9067]

You've already got a source of deathtouch counters but I'm a big fan of kappa tech-wrecker in proliferate decks, for repeatable artifact and enchantment removal (provided you can get it to connect).

[@edhdeckbuilding]

cut sol ring. in fact, cut it from the rest of your decks as well.

[@theArcosa]

Bold take!

[@bladonski]

LOL I literally have a unique counters atraxa deck in paper! What a coincidence!

[@Raymx3]

Haha! I’m building a bant counters deck in my downtime right now.

[@natedawg6755]

If only she was in red, Descent in Avernus has descent counters and quickens the game clock while giving treasures

[@truegamerking]

I wanted to build atraxa stun counter. Seemed kinda silly

[@thelizord2157]

You know I thought of making a deck like this a while ago now I’m wishing I actually went ahead and did it but it’s a really cool deck!!

[@thewalsh2k047]

ok i love this deck BUT my god tracking all these counters would be a literal nightmare

[@spartan316kaos]

This looks fun

[@hugmonger]

So if you want tto add more counters to your Ramp Package and run plenty of Removal and instant speed interaction adding Seance Board would be cool

[@samuelhowarth9994]

I built Atraxa around Mutate and shield counters. She just becomes this impossible thing to get rid of.

[@scruffalumps]

oblivion stone might be a usable board wipe for the deck lol

[@marianocolsin8968]

The fact that uou didn't add blood curdle hurts my soul. I put it in every creature deck with black i play

[@theArcosa]

Holy cow what a great include! I didn’t know about this card.

[@GerBessa]

Legacy's allure, in a commander deck.

[@bananaflame]

music was a bit loud in the beginning, you could look into compressing the background audio based on the vocal audio

[@BuddyIsGarbage]

I tried build an Atraxa deck with all the non x/x counters, so like +2/+0. There arent as many as I thought and it was extremely slow.

[@theArcosa]

@@BuddyIsGarbage Yeah, almost all the cards that do +X/+Y are completely unplayable.

[@mdra_]

No depletion counter lands????

[@theArcosa]

@@mdra_ Nope! They’re ultimately too risky and double mana doesn’t help cast Atraxa early.

[@kaemonbonet4931]

It's so funny this is happening. I was just joking about making a vanishing tribal deck for atraxa.

[@ARKmaster117]

Out of the Tombs + Magosi, the Waterveil + Goldberry, River's Daughter + Spelunking/Amulet of Vigor/Archelos etc= Infinite turns. Probably better with Archelos at the helm, but still.

[@ARKmaster117]

I forgot you also need a source of proliferate, whoops.

[@mn6334]

I bought the Perrie precon back when New Capenna came out. For a while it was fun messing around with what kinds of weird counters I could find but I ultimately lost interest because it could never really end a game. At most I could KO one player and then probably die before my next turn. Still have the deck mostly together and sleeved up but I don't think I've touched it in over a year.

[@spikeydragon1566]

I was about to type about contagion and then you commented on it. Who doesnt want bad removal thatll make everybody pick up your card and go, "This is a real card?" Especially with the alliances printing. Its not about winning, its about making everybody confused about what your cards actually do

[@dgreen7464]

I like the video! I think it needs to be a little faster, especially during the “pls like and subscribe” part, but I’ll subscribe and wouldn’t mind talking!

[@isaacweber8289]

How did you find the unique counters? I was toying with this on scryfall last week but didn't get very far. Did you use the backing api and parse the jsons directly? Nice work!

[@kwakerjak]

My Atraxa deck is a sticker deck. The tickets that make them are actually counters that can be proliferated, and once one is on Atraxa, there’s basically no way for your opponents to remove them, because you can always choose to move her to the command zone, which is a public zone.

[@lukeedgington182]

What about Peat Bog a land with a unique counter

[@Nate303]

Crystalline giant is one of my favorite cards

[@alextfish]

It is for me too! It's a pity that most of the ability counters don't do anything, but you can always dream of moving them around with Goldberry or Resourceful Defense.

[@SireBab]

The engagement questions are a good idea, i probably wouldnt have commented otherwise. This wont ve all enclusive as im commenting about 6:45, but lets see here: Sol ring: include in any non lean commander deck, if the group hoise rules as banned? Good. Otherwise you're already running non meta do i think its a good slot. As for the slumber counter card? Anti synergy, you could add all cumulative upkeep cards, but aside from like braid of fire it's actively deterimental and you were right to not add them.

[@SireBab]

I assume you looked at tyrite sanctum, it would have been a decent second source of invulnerable counters aside from arwen. I acknowledge it is slow, being 6 mama over two turns to make one compared to say one of the spirits from kamagawa, but it's a decent idea given it's an okay land, but perhaps not in 4 colors.

[@thetrinketmage]

I cheated and put district mascot in my list

[@theArcosa]

JUDGE! NOT LEGAL!

[@TenkuuNoKishi]

Shame Atraxa doesn't have red, would have been funny to give your opponents cards with cumulative upkeep where they are forced to pay them or suffer for not paying them.

[@beedozer7286]

so many counters and yet didn't even mention lands with different counters like the depletion lands.

[@theArcosa]

@@beedozer7286 I considered some, but opted to treat the manabase like an afterthought. The plus sides of depletions lands are pretty bad at casting Atraxa and create vulnerabilities for a deck that’s already conventionally “bad”. The same applies to stuff like Gemstone Mine and Vivid lands. Though, I could definitely see the inclusion to get depletion and mining counters added to the list! I also considered storage lands for storage counters, but decided against it. That’s how we ended up with a $3000 manabase 🥹

[@MoosedUp]

The deck has most of the original duals so the mana base is 4000$ lmao

[@brockmeo5979]

I tried to build a very similar deck to this with out the last point 2:49

[@skaven969]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2bWd3lnqtCMnK8si=JviAbuq1t1j1WgAI my version of atraxa :) I noticed you missed fading counters with parallax wave, commonly overlooked.

[@toadfrommariokart64]

"let's build the most unique deck we can :D" *recreates a 3 year old precon*

[@robinlindgren6429]

the fact that the end of this video does not include a game (maybe even 2? one where you win and one where you lose) is a crime.

[@XmortoxX1990]

Nice gimmick TBH