Overview:

This Atraxa, Praetors' Voice deck focuses on +1/+1 counters and Angel tribal synergies, leveraging Atraxa's end-step proliferation to amplify board states. The strategy revolves around deploying high-impact Angels, enhancing them with counters, and overwhelming opponents through combat or triggered value engines.

Primer:

Core Strategy:
Deploy cost-reduced Angels (Giada, Font of Hope, Starnheim Aspirant) while stacking +1/+1 counters and proliferate effects. Key phases:

1. Early Setup: Ramp with Birds of Paradise, Sword of the Animist, and land tutors. Cast counter enablers like Hardened Scales or Brokers Ascendancy.
2. Midgame Engine: Drop Angels (Lyra Dawnbringer, Archangel of Thune) and use Atraxa’s proliferation to grow them exponentially. Deepglow Skate and Cathars' Crusade act as force multipliers.
3. Closing Power: Overwhelm with evasive threats enhanced by Akroma's Will or Sword of Truth and Justice. Backup wincons include Avacyn, Angel of Hope-protected boards and Tamiyo, Field Researcher’s emblem.

Mulligan Priorities:

• 3 lands (prioritize untapped duals/fetches).
• 1-2 ramp pieces (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet).
• At least 1 counter enabler or early Angel.
  Avoid hands without ramp or excessive high-cost cards.

Key Tips:

• Protect Atraxa with Lightning Greaves or Heroic Intervention to maintain proliferation.
• Use Rhystic Study and Tezzeret's Gambit to sustain card advantage.
• Time Akroma's Will to dodge board wipes or alpha strike.

Weaknesses:

Critical

• No infinite combos: Relies on incremental combat damage, vulnerable to repeated board wipes.
• Graveyard dependency: Key recursion (Emeria Shepherd) is slow and disruptable.

Moderate

• Stax vulnerability: Rule of Law effects cripple proliferation triggers.
• Mana-intensive: High-CMC Angels strain recovery after early interaction.

Minor

• Limited stack interaction: Relies on 6 counterspells/removal for protection.

Most Important Cards:

• Archangel of Thune
• Cathars' Crusade
• Deepglow Skate
• Brokers Ascendancy
• Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• Akroma's Will
• Sword of the Animist
• Rhystic Study
• Tezzeret's Gambit
• Inexorable Tide

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 5/10
Theoretical T8-10 wins via combat; lacks fast mana or cost-cheating for earlier threats.

Resilience: 6/10
Moderate protection (3 hexproof/indestructible sources) but struggles against repeated interaction.

Consistency: 7/10
12 proliferate sources, 5 tutors, and card draw engines ensure steady counter growth.

Interaction: 6/10
10 targeted removal/counters (e.g., Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell) but no free spells.

Rating Justification:

The deck operates as a midrange Angel/counters build with strong synergy but no cEDH-speed combos or stax locks. Its T8-10 combat focus and moderate resilience align with Optimized Casual (5.0).

Power level: 4.5 - 5.0