When Atraxa enters the battlefield, reveal the top 10 cards of your library. For each card type, you may put one card of that type into your hand. Put the rest at the bottom of your library in any order. (the card types are Artifacts, Battle, Creature, Enchantment, Instant, Land, Planeswalker, and Sorcery.)
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This seems really strong as a big fatty card although the restricted cost with GWUB but after Omnath, Locus of Creation I am confident that this one can be a lackluster card. In addition, this remembers me a lot Griselbrand though. Thoughts?
My original thought was that this is an alternative Niv Mizzet Reborn that doesn't force you to stuff your deck with gold cards, but this is actually quite Griselbrand-ish too. Same stats, more keywords, draws a bunch of cards on ETB that doesn't cost you life, and you can Natural Order for it. This is a premium cheaty face target that's also not too hard to hardcast. Will definitely be playing this in my cube.
This card looks awesome. I like the gentle deckbuilding nudge to play more diverse card types. Build around cards that are both good on their own and change the value of other cards in the draft create a cool extra layer to the draft experience.
I have always enjoyed original Atraxa, but I’m not sure I have room for two GWUB cards.
I mentioned I was in the market for an instant speed reanimator target that isn't Griselbrand to help support "Reanimator Storm". I think this might be as close as I can get to GriselBrand.
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Looks like a "Slap it down and win" kind of card to me. Gains you life, draws you cards, bonks the opponent pretty hard, all on a reanimatable creature body. Four colors is actually quite a lot easier to fix for than five, in my experience, so casting this after a couple ramp spells seems like a good plan too.
Seems like a really great target to cheat in, plus it works with most methods of doing so. I've been underwhelmed with alot of my cheat targets so I might give Atraxa a shot.
The draw trigger is pretty interesting; 10 cards deep means you are hopefully going to see at least 4 types (a very scientific guess, pulled out of my arse). Deck construction obviously matters but I don't think it will be too hard to have Land, Creature, instant and/or sorcery in your top 10.
If she doesn't eat removal stright away there is a very good chance she can stabilise as you will usually eat their best attacker, gain 7 life then possibly a 14 life swing the next turn on the attack.
Honestly I don't think it's fair to compare the two. This obviously is the better all-around creature, but they go in completely separate decks. Niv-Mizzet is a complete build around and generally works best by hard casting / Birthing Pod into it while Atraxa is mainly a cheaty face target.
Unsure if my Cube needs this but I'm going to test. Not being an artifact as a Tinker target may make this card untenable but with Sneak and Natural Order I want to see if it gets enough play to be worthy of a spot.
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In most reanimator shells this card is tier 1 alongside Griselbrand and Archon of Cruelty. They all win the game an absurd high % of the time when resolved, but have different strengths and weaknesses. IE Griselbrand is worse against agro but better vs control.
The difference is Atraxa costs one less mana and is also natural order target!
This is a pretty big deal for multi-colored green ramp decks as it incentives more hybridization with reanimator/show & tell and gives green an absurd tier 1 bomb to natural order and GSZ into.
Breathes some 2023 power level into some green ramp+cheat decks that were falling a bit behind the curve these past couple years imo.
Atraxa has been making waves in pretty much every constructed format. It's probably just the best overall cheaty face target right now due to its versatility and extremely high floor AND ceiling. Being a Griselbrand that doesn't require you to pay 7 life to draw cards makes it Atraxa risk free. Atraxa also works with Natural Order / Flash unlike Griselbrand.
Unsure if my Cube needs this but I'm going to test. Not being an artifact as a Tinker target may make this card untenable but with Sneak and Natural Order I want to see if it gets enough play to be worthy of a spot.
People keep saying they wish Atraxa was an artifact to be a Tinker target, but honestly I don't think it's worth the tradeoff of dying to artifact destruction. Might as well wish for hexproof / haste / trample while we're at it.
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Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Angel
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When Atraxa enters the battlefield, reveal the top 10 cards of your library. For each card type, you may put one card of that type into your hand. Put the rest at the bottom of your library in any order. (the card types are Artifacts, Battle, Creature, Enchantment, Instant, Land, Planeswalker, and Sorcery.)
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This seems really strong as a big fatty card although the restricted cost with GWUB but after Omnath, Locus of Creation I am confident that this one can be a lackluster card. In addition, this remembers me a lot Griselbrand though. Thoughts?
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Can stabilize any battlefield unless it’s removed and that ETB is crazy card advantage.
no restrictions on cast and can be GSZ/NO target.
Premium cheaty target that works in most cheat decks.
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I have always enjoyed original Atraxa, but I’m not sure I have room for two GWUB cards.
Also: So long Tribal, hello Battle?
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The draw trigger is pretty interesting; 10 cards deep means you are hopefully going to see at least 4 types (a very scientific guess, pulled out of my arse). Deck construction obviously matters but I don't think it will be too hard to have Land, Creature, instant and/or sorcery in your top 10.
If she doesn't eat removal stright away there is a very good chance she can stabilise as you will usually eat their best attacker, gain 7 life then possibly a 14 life swing the next turn on the attack.
The card itself feels too blunt. Too much raw power with no axis of weakness.
Combine that with a new card type that’s never been referenced before and my money is on fake.
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StaffHonestly I don't think it's fair to compare the two. This obviously is the better all-around creature, but they go in completely separate decks. Niv-Mizzet is a complete build around and generally works best by hard casting / Birthing Pod into it while Atraxa is mainly a cheaty face target.
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In most reanimator shells this card is tier 1 alongside Griselbrand and Archon of Cruelty. They all win the game an absurd high % of the time when resolved, but have different strengths and weaknesses. IE Griselbrand is worse against agro but better vs control.
The difference is Atraxa costs one less mana and is also natural order target!
This is a pretty big deal for multi-colored green ramp decks as it incentives more hybridization with reanimator/show & tell and gives green an absurd tier 1 bomb to natural order and GSZ into.
Breathes some 2023 power level into some green ramp+cheat decks that were falling a bit behind the curve these past couple years imo.
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StaffPeople keep saying they wish Atraxa was an artifact to be a Tinker target, but honestly I don't think it's worth the tradeoff of dying to artifact destruction. Might as well wish for hexproof / haste / trample while we're at it.
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