<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice|2xm|353" href="#" target="_blank">Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://scryfall.com/search?q=a%3A%E2%80%9CKev+Walker%E2%80%9D&amp;unique=art" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kev Walker</a></em></p>
<p>Greetings, everyone. It's your fellow space traveler, Nick. As we enter the <em>Edge of Eternities</em> and feast our collective eyes on all the brand new cards, let's not forget about cards from the past.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice"></div></div>
<p>Some cards are easier to remember, and today we find ourselves with a card most would forget, if only they could. One of the most popular commanders of all time, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice" href="#" target="_blank">Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, is no stranger to getting new cards, and new cards it did receive.</p>
<p>So suit up and get in the rover as we travel the cosmos and look at what Atraxa might look like when built with some new cards featuring an old counter.</p>
<h2>The Focus</h2>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice" href="#" target="_blank">Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has many things going for it. A solid stat line at 4/4. A great color combination of <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-g" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-w" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-u" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-b" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>. A flurry of keywords. But most importantly, an end step trigger of proliferation.</p>
<p>This end-step trigger is the main reason why this card gained so much notoriety. <em>Edge of Eternities</em> brought new things to the game, but it also returned an often overlooked type of counter: the charge counter.</p>
<h2>New Value Charge</h2>
<p>While there wasn't a massive amount of cards in the set focused on charge counters, the ones that are featured in this deck are some of the best for the strategy.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Moxite Refinery"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Insight Engine"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Adagia, Windswept Bastion"></div></div>
<p>First up is the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Moxite Refinery" href="#" target="_blank">Moxite Refinery</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, the 2025 version of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Power Conduit" href="#" target="_blank">Power Conduit</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This refinery enables us to utilize any spare counters and place them in a more strategic location. Limited to sorcery speed does bring down the hype level ever so slightly, but the raw power of this card should not be underestimated.</p>
<p>In terms of artifacts that draw cards <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The One Ring" href="#" target="_blank">The One Ring</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> might be the best card ever to do it. Yes, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Insight Engine" href="#" target="_blank">Insight Engine</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> isn't nearly as strong as one of the best cards of the past few years, but it is the best draw engine in the entire deck and one that quickly and efficiently will have you drawing entire new hands every time it's activated.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Adagia, Windswept Bastion" href="#" target="_blank">Adagia, Windswept Bastion</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is the only Planet making the cut in this deck. All of the "good" ones can be run thanks to Ataxa's color identity, but Adagia is the one we can utilize best. Being able to get a copy of either of the cards mentioned above would be great, and that is just scratching the surface in this deck.</p>
<h2>New Aggressive Charge</h2>
<p>Drawing cards and moving counters around is all fun and games, but someone has to win the game eventually. That someone might as well be us.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Extinguisher Battleship"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Entropic Battlecruiser"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Patrolling Peacemaker"></div></div>
<p>The newest of new cards, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Entropic Battlecruiser" href="#" target="_blank">Entropic Battlecruiser</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, is both from the latest set and a brand new subtype: Spacecraft. All of the Spacecraft use charge counters to both gain abilities and eventually become creatures. The Battlecruiser gains us immediate value if anyone ever discards a card, and once powered up, becomes a fantastic blocker and a creature often doing 12 damage total across the table when it attacks.</p>
<p>One of the biggest and baddest battleships around the solar system, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Extinguisher Battleship" href="#" target="_blank">Extinguisher Battleship</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a great way to get aggressive by removing the problems in front of us. Destroying any pesky non-creature permanent and then wrathing most of the board does more than the average artifact. Follow that up with an easy station cost of five to give us a massive 10/10; with flying and trample, it's just icing on the cake.</p>
<p>Not specifically here to do damage by itself, but rather to help out our other cards, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Patrolling Peacemaker" href="#" target="_blank">Patrolling Peacemaker</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is precisely what we need to make the numbers go up on cards like the battlecruiser of the forge.</p>
<h2>New Craft, Who Dis?</h2>
<p>While a main draw of the set, not every single Spacecraft is worth it. Some are a bit underwhelming, and even if our core plan is to make anything that has a charge counter have very many charge counters, we only have 99 card slots.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="The Eternity Elevator"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Uthros Research Craft"></div></div>
<p>Possibly one of the silliest cards ever made, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Eternity Elevator" href="#" target="_blank">The Eternity Elevator</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> goes from a mediocre mana rock to an absurd mana rock all for the low price of 20 charge counters. Things need to go right for our deck to reach the point of no return, but with every floor the elevator climbs, we get closer to the top.</p>
<p>Who among us would say no to <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-tap" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>: Add 20 blue mana?</p>
<p>Continuing the trend of needing 20 charge counters <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought" href="#" target="_blank">Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> becomes a 20/20 flyer once that threshold is reached, but it isn't slouching before then. For half the price, you get the ability to blow up just about any creature or planeswalker that could ever find a way onto the battlefield.</p>
<p>Last up is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Uthros Research Craft" href="#" target="_blank">Uthros Research Craft</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, maybe the easiest of all the Spacecraft to fully power up. The Swiss Army Knife of Spacecraft, thanks to drawing cards, giving itself counters, and turning into a player-eliminating threat.</p>
<h2>Forgotten Charge</h2>
<p>This deck wants to shine a light and focus on being rebuilt with <em>Edge of Eternities </em>in mind, but charge counters are something that have been in <em>Magic</em> sets across the years. Here are some of the highlights.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Astral Cornucopia"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Grindclock"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Talon of Pain"></div></div>
<p>One of the most interesting mana rocks ever made, and one of the only ones that can make a table hungry, the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Astral Cornucopia" href="#" target="_blank">Astral Cornucopia</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> provides colored mana fixing on a level only seen by the likes of, ironically, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Eternity Elevator" href="#" target="_blank">The Eternity Elevator</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Grindclock" href="#" target="_blank">Grindclock</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> gives the deck a way to win the game, different from anything else at its disposal. In specific builds of the deck, it could even be used as a self-mill engine to win with a card like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Laboratory Maniac" href="#" target="_blank">Laboratory Maniac</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Talon of Pain" href="#" target="_blank">Talon of Pain</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> should probably be in more than the <a href="https://edhrec.com/cards/talon-of-pain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1005 decks</a> that it currently calls home. Regardless, the more we can charge up this card, the more pain we can inflict at the table.</p>
<h2>Fully Charged</h2>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice" href="#" target="_blank">Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has almost infinite build paths, and charge counters are, I'm a bit sad to say, closer to the bottom than the top of the list.</p>
<p>Not that cards using charge counters aren't cool; I play some of the cards found in this deck, like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Everflowing Chalice" href="#" target="_blank">Everflowing Chalice</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Coalition Relic" href="#" target="_blank">Coalition Relic</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, regularly.</p>
<p>I can't wait to get my hands on multiple of the Planet lands, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Insight Engine" href="#" target="_blank">Insight Engine</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is the exact type of card I want to play in the most broken of builds. However, charge counters as an entire strategy suffers a bit from not having a real card or cards that can qualify as a payoff for the strategy as a whole.</p>
<p>While this deck can still do powerful <em>Magic</em> and would be fun to play, especially if the Phyrexian Angel has personally victimized your playgroup in the past, there's just something missing.</p>
<p>Maybe with a few more trips to space, or a precon focused on charge counters themselves, this build might step out of the shadows of something like <a href="https://edhrec.com/commanders/atraxa-praetors-voice/planeswalkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atraxa Superfriends</a> or <a href="https://edhrec.com/commanders/atraxa-praetors-voice/infect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atraxa Infect</a>.</p>
<p>How are you rebuilding your very own Atraxa decks once <em>Edge of Eternities</em> releases? Are you a fan of charge counters? Let me know over on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/nicnax96.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bluesky</a>.</p>
<p>I hope to see you in the stars with my <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Exploration Broodship" href="#" target="_blank">Exploration Broodship</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> as I search for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ripples of Potential" href="#" target="_blank">Ripples of Potential</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to be brought back to the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Eumidian Hatchery" href="#" target="_blank">Eumidian Hatchery</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Till next time.</p>
<h2>Atraxa, Praetors' Voice Charge Counters Deck List</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Rebuilding Atraxa - Edge of Eternities Edition" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Atraxa, Praetors&#039; Voice
[/Commander]
[Instants]
*1 Arcane Denial
*1 Assassin&#039;s Trophy
*1 Atomize
*1 Brokers Confluence
*1 Experimental Augury
*1 Mutational Advantage
*1 Planar Genesis
*1 Ripples of Potential
*1 Swords to Plowshares
[/Instants]
[Artifacts]
*1 Arcane Signet
*1 Astral Cornucopia
*1 Chromatic Lantern
*1 Coalition Relic
*1 Contagion Engine
*1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
*1 Empowered Autogenerator
*1 Entropic Battlecruiser
*1 Everflowing Chalice
*1 Exploration Broodship
*1 Extinguisher Battleship
*1 Fellwar Stone
*1 Glistening Sphere
*1 Golem Foundry
*1 Grindclock
*1 Insight Engine
*1 Lux Artillery
*1 Lux Cannon
*1 Magistrate&#039;s Scepter
*1 Moxite Refinery
*1 Simic Signet
*1 Sol Ring
*1 Staff of Compleation
*1 Talisman of Curiosity
*1 Talon of Pain
*1 The Eternity Elevator
*1 The Millennium Calendar
*1 Titan Forge
*1 Unwinding Clock
*1 Uthros Research Craft
*1 Uthros Scanship
[/Artifacts]
[Sorceries]
*1 Contentious Plan
*1 Farseek
*1 Nature&#039;s Lore
*1 Nuclear Fallout
*1 Tezzeret&#039;s Gambit
*1 Three Visits
[/Sorceries]
[Creatures]
*1 Coretapper
*1 Crystalline Crawler
*1 Deepglow Skate
*1 Evolution Sage
*1 Incubation Druid
*1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
*1 Lulu, Stern Guardian
*1 Patrolling Peacemaker
*1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
*1 Thrummingbird
*1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
*1 Winding Constrictor
*1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor
[/Creatures]
[Enchantments]
*1 Doubling Season
*1 Inexorable Tide
*1 Resourceful Defense
[/Enchantments]
[Lands]
*1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
*1 Bountiful Promenade
*1 Breeding Pool
*1 Command Tower
*1 Eumidian Hatchery
*1 Exotic Orchard
*1 Flooded Strand
*3 Forest
*1 Gemstone Mine
*1 Godless Shrine
*1 Hallowed Fountain
*1 Indatha Triome
*3 Island
*1 Karn&#039;s Bastion
*1 Marsh Flats
*1 Misty Rainforest
*1 Nesting Grounds
*1 Overgrown Tomb
*1 Plains
*1 Polluted Delta
*1 Raffine&#039;s Tower
*1 Reflecting Pool
*1 Rejuvenating Springs
*1 Sea of Clouds
*1 Spara&#039;s Headquarters
*1 Swamp
*1 Temple Garden
*1 Undergrowth Stadium
*1 Vault of Champions
*1 Verdant Catacombs
*1 Watery Grave
*1 Windswept Heath
*1 Zagoth Triome
[/Lands]"></span></div>
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