Atraxa Vs The Ur Dragon 1v1 EDH/CMDR Gameplay

Deck Strategies

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  Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

  This deck focuses on proliferating +1/+1 counters and other counters to grow creatures quickly and gain incremental advantages. It uses ramp and synergy pieces like Hardened Scales and Rishkar to maximize counter generation. Atraxa herself is a key threat, providing flying, lifelink, and additional proliferate triggers to escalate board dominance, aiming to overwhelm opponents through massive creatures and life gain.

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  The Ur-Dragon

  The Ur-Dragon deck is a high-mana, dragon tribal deck that ramps aggressively to cast large dragons and leverage The Ur-Dragon’s ability to cheat out other dragons from the hand. It uses mana artifacts and ramp spells to reach high mana counts quickly and aims to control the board with powerful dragons and artifact interaction, applying pressure through big creatures and tribal synergies.

Gameplay Insights

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  Utilizing Hardened Scales with Rishkar allowed rapid growth of +1/+1 counters, which synergized well with Atraxa's proliferate triggers, creating a powerful board presence early.

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  The Atraxa player smartly used Citadel Siege to put additional counters on Atraxa each turn, compounding her threat level and increasing damage output and life gain.

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  The Ur-Dragon player maintained pressure by casting multiple dragons and using artifact ramp, but struggled to keep pace with Atraxa’s continuous proliferate and counter accumulation.

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  Life gain from Atraxa’s lifelink and counter synergies provided sustainability against the Ur-Dragon’s aggressive attacks.

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  Proliferate was a key mechanic leveraged multiple times per turn to escalate board state advantages and maintain momentum.

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  Despite the Ur-Dragon player’s ability to take control of artifacts and generate tokens, the incremental growth and combat advantages of the Atraxa deck proved decisive.

Notable Cards

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  Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

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  Rishkar, Peema Renegade

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  Citadel Siege

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  Hardened Scales

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  Sol Ring

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  Talisman of Resilience

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  The Ur-Dragon

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  Blood Crypt

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  Temple Garden

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  Chromatic Lantern

Summary

The Ur-Dragon player responded by casting powerful dragons and using their commander’s ability to cheat out impactful creatures and maintain pressure. The combat phase saw Atraxa swinging for large amounts of damage, gaining life through lifelink, and proliferating counters to escalate threats. Despite the Ur-Dragon's attempts to keep up, including artifact control and token creation, the Atraxa deck’s incremental growth and board control through counters and proliferate proved overwhelming. The game featured a tense back-and-forth with Atraxa’s board state snowballing, applying consistent pressure that left the Ur-Dragon player struggling to stabilize.