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Atraxa, Drawing Board

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[Bluvel]

Revision 2

Added/removed cards:
+1 Contagion Engine

Can't forget Contagion Engine... It's too good!

[Bluvel]

Revision 3

Added/removed cards:
-1 Birds of Paradise
+1 Opaline Unicorn
+1 Utopia Tree
Same effect -- Kinda worse, but better on my wallet.

+1 Enduring Scalelord
+1 Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
+1 Kalonian Hydra
+1 Managorger Hydra
I forgot to put in my beaters. That's a huge oversight on my part . . .

+1 Jace Beleren
+1 Dovin Baan
Jace is perfect for my deck, but Dovin on the other hand... I'm gonna test with him. See if he's worth it.

+1 (SB) Grip of Phyresis
Amazing when I'm fighting a deck with equipment other than like Swiftfoot Boots, but almost always in my meta it ends up as a dead card in hand.

[Bluvel]

Revision 4

Added/removed cards:

-1 Mirrorweave
Too situational. It's sometimes good enough to be a one-sided boardwipe, but that's rare, and most of the time I would just rather have a card that actually progressed me in the game.

-1 Dovin Baan
-1 Jace Beleren
-1 Kaya, Ghost Assassin
-1 Vraska, Relic Seeker
+1 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
+1 Sorin, Grim Nemesis
Jace Beleren is good and all, but I don't know if he's worth it in the grand scheme of things. I'm thinking of putting him in future revisions, but for now, I'm not sure.
Kaya does what Sorin does, card draw, removal, but much worse.
Kiora, the Crashing Wave also just straight up replaces Dovin Baan, because she's way better at everything Dovin Baan would dream of doing.
Vraska hasn't even come out yet so I'll have to speculate on that first before I take the plunge.

+1 Chasm Skulker
+1 Genesis Hydra
+1 Give // Take
+1 Skyship Plunderer
+1 Winding Constrictor
Counter generation and making my curve less abysmal is always good.

-1 Opaline Unicorn
-1 Utopia Tree
+1 Chromatic Lantern
+1 Gyre Sage
+1 As Foretold
As Foretold, Chromatic Lantern and Gyre sage are just much more efficient at what they do in comparison to these cards.

Changed amounts and added cards:
-2 Forest
-1 Island
-2 Plains
-1 Adarkar Wastes
-1 Path of Ancestry
+1 Prairie Stream
+1 Vivid Creek
+1 Vivid Grove
+1 Vivid Meadow

I needed to cut down my land base a bit, I had too many, but I also needed to make my lands more versatile.
In regards to the vivid lands, entering tapped is a disadvantage, but it's a disadvantage I'm willing to take for basically a couple of 5-colored lands.
Adarkar Wastes was replaced by Prairie Stream because Adarkar Wastes is pretty damn expensive for a pain land, and I have a single Prairie Stream anyway.
Path of Ancestry is really good, but not really worth the 3$.

[Bluvel]

Revision 5

I'm gonna be focusing on curve a lot more from now on, that's what the deck needs right now. Speed.

Added/removed cards:

-1 Cauldron of Souls
It's a solid maybe on whether or not this will stay on the list, but for now, on turn 4-5-6 I'll be setting up my gameplan instead of playing a card that protects my guys.

-1 Genesis Hydra
Great late game, useless early game.

-1 Give // Take
For 3 and 6 mana, I can be playing cards that do these things repeatedly as an engine or have a much splashier effect. Is not worth it at all.

-1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
She's good and all, but not good enough to make the cut unfortunately.

-1 Bred for the Hunt
-1 Phyrexian Arena
My planeswalkers will most likely be better for drawing cards. Phyrexian Arena has tricky mana cost and Bred for the Hunt is completely conditional, and will mostly be played or used on like turn 5-6 when I actually start swinging.

-1 Pyramid of the Pantheon
+1 Birds of Paradise
Pyramid is good and all, but is way too slow and actively sets me back mana instead of gaining it. If I'm going to be speeding up my deck, Pyramid of the Pantheon is awful. Birds is an amazing card, and will most likely be worth running, to replace it.

+1 Scavenging Ooze
How the hell did I forget to put this in?

[Bluvel]

Revision 6

Added/removed cards:
-1 Sorin, Grim Nemesis
+1 Enclave Cryptologist

Enclave Crpytologist is an amazing card in Atraxa, stabilizes me early game, is a mana sink, will be brought up by my other synergies. Sorin is good but he is a little high on the bell end, and I have Planeswalkers for cheaper that do the same if not better effects.

[Squirtle]

i would take this deck and use it as a fire starter

[Bluvel]

Revision 7

Added/removed cards:
-1 As Foretold
-1 Birds of Paradise
-1 Cyclonic Rift
Removed because I didn't want to pay for them.


-1 Cathar's Crusade
A good card in some decks but I tend to go tall, not wide - Not that many creatures. This card is a hefty casting cost and when I do cast it it only helps when I cast creatures after it.

+1 Anguished Unmaking
-1 Mortify
Anguished Unmaking is wayyyy better.

-1 Reveillark
I don't have graveyard synergy, while it is a neat card and and all I don't need it.

-1 Skyship Plunderer
-1 Winding Constrictor
They don't do enough. Winding Constrictor also hurts me at times.

+1 Jace Beleren
+1 Kaya, Ghost Assassin
More cards. Kaya also acts as "removal"

+1 Lightning Greaves
Due to the wording of the Proliferate ability, I can still add counters to things with Shroud. People always kill Atraxa anyway so this is great!

+1 Mind Unbound
+1 Phyrexian Arena
More cards!

+1 Rampant Growth
A shoddy replacement for Birds of Paradise.

+1 Shapers of Nature
Adds cards and also adds counters onto creatures that may not have any counters, starting the push.

+1 Arcane Sanctum
+1 Opulent Palace
-1 Island
-1 Swamp

I need access to more colors.

[Bluvel]

Revision 8

Added/removed cards:
-1 Jace Beleren
+1 Triumph of the Hordes

I flip-flop on this one.

[Bluvel]

Revision 9

Added/removed cards:
-1 Chromatic Lantern
+1 Explosive Vegetation

$$$ :[