Cut These Staples From Your Atraxa Decks!

Published 2023-10-27
These are some cards you can definitely avoid when building your various Atraxa decks!

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All Comments (21)
  • @Gullington
    I've been thinking about retooling my Atraxa deck for awhile. Glad to have a guide that takes into account new cards.
  • Suggest keeping Biophagus to get that first counter on Atraxa to start proliferating her on turn 3.
  • @Lenvyathan
    This was a nice change of pace, I would love to see more this type of deep dives to certain popular deck archetypes!
  • @purpl3nurgle
    See what you do is play your thrumming bird, then equip it with your sword of truth and justice... make it big and scary and make those white flying blockers irrelevant
  • @rlbarney2
    2:30 The cheapest Tap: Proliferate that I could find was 4 mana. There are 1 offs that Proliferate for 1 or 2 mana, but no +1/+1 counter nor ability (besides flash, etc) to proliferate again. The sword is an option to have a permanent that can proliferate more than once. If part of ones Atraxa deck is Poison counters, then the Sword should stay. While I don't have an Atraxa deck (I do have an Ixhel one) I will have to agree that almost all these cards would not make the cut.
  • @BlitzFlix1
    Legit the slickest Moxfield transition
  • @Skyfysh
    You stick Prosthetic Injector or Necrogen Communion on Thrumming Bird, and on turn 3 you have a very real threat.
  • @ryuujien
    This is an atraxa infect mind set which makes perfect sense to remove slow spells when playing small bodies that has infect. In the mind of Toxic however some of the cards mentioned are pretty good in the deck
  • @chumbogrosso5133
    Cool video! My brother has a budget Atraxa poison deck and he uses many of the cards shown in this video. I'll share it with him even though he's the most toxic player in the playgroup
  • I use key word counters in my atraxa, and all the cards that copy or move the counter onto other creatures. The ajins from kamigawa and the blue praetor provide the indestructible counters.
  • @boochaca7957
    ngl, the sword is great to just slap on Atraxa, extra protection and almost guarateed a hit with the prot and flying. atraxa t4 then the sword and swing
  • @thojmuas5744
    Went there mutate route with mines and can definitely agree mana is a huge issue!
  • Why not keep sword of truth and justice. It puts them on a 2 turn timer to commander damage death with atraxa. It's an extra win-con in a single card if they don't have removal early. turn 3 - play atraxa turn 4 - play and equip sword of truth and justice > swing with atraxa for 6 commander. give +1/+1 and then proliferate that twice (1 sword, 1 atraxa) turn 5 - swing again with atraxa who is now 9/9 with 6 keywords. (15 commander total) turn 6 - swing again with atraxa who is now a 12/12. assuming no other proliferates or boosts from planeswalkers. for 27 commander (death. and a 2 turn kill for anyone else).
  • I added Dark Depths to my Atraxa list to Proliferate it’s ice counters so I can gaslight my opponents into not immediately making me archenemy by claiming “fair gameplay”.
  • Calling Ajani emblem “nothing” is a HOT take. No one plays him in planeswalker Atraxa. Hes for poison decks
  • @crawdaddy2004
    The deck that wants Empowered Autogenerator is the deck that wants Voltaic Key. 7:32
  • @thork_tv
    I realy Like the tj sword Not for atraxa but for the Scorpion god and Equipment Decks. In the Scorpion god you dont have to mutch proli cards. Also IT snowballs realy quick.