Atraxa Stun Counters by user6258813

Format: Commander

Commander: Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Atraxa, Praetors' Voice deck operates as an oppressive control and attrition engine centered on stun counters and proliferate mechanics. In the early game, the deck establishes asymmetric taxes using cards like Blind Obedience and Thalia, Heretic Cathar to force opposing permanents to enter tapped. It then applies stun counters to opposing creatures through efficient tempo spells and repeatable tap effects. Once Atraxa, Praetors' Voice enters the battlefield on Turn 4, its proliferate trigger adds stun counters each end step, effectively locking opposing threats out of untapping indefinitely. Card advantage engines such as Generous Patron and Verity Circle capitalize on this tap-and-counter strategy to draw massive amounts of cards. The deck closes games around Turn 8 through evasive combat damage from large flyers, reinforced by Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, Fear of Sleep Paralysis, and table-wide burn from Mjölnir, Storm Hammer.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Wave
  • 1 Cryogen Relic
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fear of Sleep Paralysis
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Freeze in Place
  • 1 Generous Patron
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hushbringer
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Involuntary Cooldown
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lulu, Stern Guardian
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mjölnir, Storm Hammer
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omega, Heartless Evolution
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parting Thoughts
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Rapier Wit
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rime Chill
  • 1 Scroll of Isildur
  • 1 Sensational Spider-Man
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Sanctuary
  • 1 Stall Out
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Stunning Shot
  • 1 Succumb to the Cold
  • 1 Summon: Shiva
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Verity Circle
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zygon Infiltrator