The Theorist's Rise by Edbird

Format: Commander

Commander: Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Atraxa, Praetors' Voice deck is a Superfriends and Proliferate engine built around the Empower Jace mechanic. The deck's primary plan is to generate a resilient Jace planeswalker token early, accelerate its loyalty counters through Atraxa's end-step proliferation and high-yield Empower spells, and deploy Jace, Reality Sculptor. Once the collective loyalty among Jace permanents reaches 25, Jace, Reality Sculptor activates its [0] ability to exile all but the bottom card of each opponent's library, sealing a table elimination within one response cycle on Turn 7 as opponents draw out. The deck protects its board state with static hexproof shields like Privileged Position, Shalai, Voice of Plenty, and Deification, alongside combat dampeners such as Tomik, Orzhov Lawmage. Backup lines leverage Vraska, Betrayal's Sting for poison proliferation or Kiora of Salt and Sand to swarm the board with 8/8 hexproof Leviathans.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academic Ascent
  • 1 Arcane Amphisbaena
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
  • 1 Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Call the Gatewatch
  • 1 Campus Crier
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contentious Plan
  • 1 Countersculpt
  • 1 Deification
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Djeru, With Eyes Open
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Fatehold Annex
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Commons
  • 1 Gideon's Memorial
  • 1 Grateful Apparition
  • 1 Guildpact Informant
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hexhaven Battalion
  • 1 Ichormoon Gauntlet
  • 1 Ignite the Beacon
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Inspired Tethermage
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jace, Reality Sculptor
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Keeper of the Quiet Hour
  • 1 Kiora of Salt and Sand
  • 1 Lyra, Tolarian Archangel
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Meticulous Commons
  • 1 Mindseeker Oculus
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overwrite the Multiverse
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Plan for All Outcomes
  • 1 Privileged Position
  • 1 Protege's Awakening
  • 1 Reject Imperfection
  • 1 Repurposed Enforcer
  • 1 Rewrite Regrets
  • 1 Sanctum Lurker
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve for Disappointment
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tam's Resistance
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Theorix Annex
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Tomik, Orzhov Lawmage
  • 1 Transformative Commons
  • 1 Vigorbloom Annex
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Way of the Cryomancer
  • 1 Way of the Healer
  • 1 Way of the Mentor
  • 1 Way of the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Way of the Necromancer
  • 1 Way of the Paradox
  • 1 Way of the Wildspeaker