Atraxa of the Planes by DandyDadPool

Format: Commander

Commander: Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color midrange tap-out control build led by Atraxa, Grand Unifier. The main strategy focuses on developing lands, deploying light stax and tax creatures like Thalia, the Survivor and Norn's Annex to slow down aggressive opponents, and casting high-impact midrange permanents. On Turn 7, the deck casts Atraxa from the command zone to restock 4 to 5 cards across varied card types and establish an imposing 7/7 flying lifelink blocker. From that point, the deck leverages massive card quality and blink spells like Ghostly Flicker to chain value, deploy secondary bomb threats like Koma, World-Eater and Drogskol Reaver, and sweep opposing boards with Cleansing Nova. Victory is achieved through multi-turn combat damage over several rotations. While the deck boasts immense late-game card advantage and high threat density, its reliance on basic lands and low ramp count makes early development slow.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
  • 1 Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes
  • 1 Bloom Hulk
  • 1 Bloombrute
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Chimeric Mass
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Collective Blessing
  • 1 Copper Longlegs
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Dryad's Revival
  • 1 Elspeth Conquers Death
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gitaxian Anatomist
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Heirloom Blade
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Invoke Justice
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Isolation Cell
  • 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
  • 1 Kaya, Intangible Slayer
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Liberate
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Mana Bloom
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Nissa, Steward of Elements
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 Omnipresence
  • 1 Phenomenon Investigators
  • 1 Phyrexian Rebirth
  • 1 Phytohydra
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Rancorous Archaic
  • 1 Reject Imperfection
  • 1 Restricted Office // Lecture Hall
  • 1 Rewrite Regrets
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Serum Snare
  • 1 Shattered Angel
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Soul of New Phyrexia
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Supreme Will
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 The Filigree Sylex
  • 1 The Wanderer
  • 1 Titanbones, Towering Heart
  • 1 Together as One
  • 1 Tomik, Orzhov Lawmage
  • 1 Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
  • 1 Transplant Theorist
  • 1 Unexpectedly Absent
  • 1 Vastwood Hydra
  • 1 Vraska the Unseen
  • 1 Way of the Mentor
  • 1 Wildgrowth Archaic
  • 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
  • 1 Yuriko, Blade of the Mighty