Overview:

This Atraxa, Praetors' Voice deck focuses on proliferating counters to accelerate planeswalker ultimates and generate overwhelming value. The strategy leverages Atraxa's end-step proliferation alongside synergistic counter doublers, planeswalker recursion, and stax elements to lock opponents out of the game.

Primer:

Core Strategy:

1. Early Game (Turns 1-4):
   • Ramp with Birds of Paradise, Sol Ring, and land-fetch spells.
   • Deploy early stax/protection like Mystic Remora or Narset, Parter of Veils.
2. Mid-Game (Turns 5-7):
   • Drop planeswalkers (e.g., Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon) and counter doublers (Doubling Season, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider).
   • Use Arena Rector/Spark Double to cheat in or copy planeswalkers.
3. Win Conditions:
   • Activate game-ending planeswalker emblems (e.g., Teferi, Hero of Dominaria’s exile emblem, Narset Transcendent’s noncreature lock).
   • Overwhelm with proliferated creature tokens (Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Sorin, Grim Nemesis) or Toxrill, the Corrosive’s board control.
   • Infinite proliferate loops via Flux Channeler + noncreature spells or Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres + repeated proliferation.

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with 3+ lands, 1-2 ramp pieces, and at least 1 planeswalker/proliferate engine.
• Avoid slow hands with multiple taplands or no early interaction.

Key Tips:

• Use Oath of Teferi to double planeswalker activations and flicker value engines like Deepglow Skate.
• Protect critical pieces with Tamiyo's Safekeeping and Kaya's Ghostform.
• Leverage Farewell and Toxic Deluge to reset the board while preserving your counter-heavy permanents.

Weaknesses:

Critical

• Planeswalker Vulnerability: Relies heavily on planeswalkers, which are soft to aggressive creatures and direct removal (e.g., Hero's Downfall).
• Stax Weakness: Locks like Drannith Magistrate + Rule of Law cripple the planeswalker-centric strategy.

Moderate

• Graveyard Reliance: Recursion via Kethis, the Hidden Hand and Carth the Lion is disrupted by exile-based graveyard hate.
• Mana Base Fragility: 14 enters-tapped lands and 4-color dependency make early turns inconsistent.

Minor

• Limited Fast Interaction: Only 5 instant-speed answers (e.g., Swords to Plowshares, Drown in Ichor).

Most Important Cards:

• Doubling Season
• Deepglow Skate
• Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
• Oath of Teferi
• Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• Arena Rector
• Brokers Ascendancy
• Spark Double
• Toxrill, the Corrosive

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 5/10
Theoretical T5-7 wins with perfect draws (e.g., T3 Doubling Season into T4 Ugin ultimate), but averages T8-10.

Resilience: 6/10
Recursion (Kethis, Carth) and protection (Mutational Advantage) mitigate losses, but planeswalkers remain fragile.

Consistency: 6/10
10 proliferate enablers and 4 planeswalker tutors (e.g., Arena Rector, Urza Assembles the Titans) provide redundancy.

Interaction: 5/10
Moderate removal (Farewell, Austere Command) but lacks free counterspells or stack interaction.

Rating Justification:

This deck sits between focused casual and optimized casual, leveraging strong synergies but lacking cEDH-level speed or resilience. Its planeswalker value engine and stax elements align with the "Focused Casual" (4.5) to "Optimized Casual" (5.5) range.

Power level: 4.5 - 5.5