Top 15 Best Cards for Atraxa, Praetors' Voice (2025)
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice remains one of the most popular and versatile commanders in EDH. With her powerful end-step proliferate trigger and four-color identity (
Whether you're building your first Atraxa deck or upgrading an existing one, these 15 cards will take your proliferate game to the next level. Looking to print proxies of these powerful staples? Check out our Proxy Printer to get your deck ready fast.
1. Doubling Season
Mana Cost:
The crown jewel of any counter-based Atraxa deck. Doubling Season doubles both token creation AND counters placed on permanents you control. For Superfriends builds, this means planeswalkers enter with double loyalty—often allowing immediate ultimates.
Why it's essential:
- Planeswalkers enter at double loyalty
- Every proliferate adds double counters
- Synergizes with every Atraxa strategy
2. Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Mana Cost:
The newest Phyrexian Praetor doubles your counter output while halving your opponents' counters. Combined with Atraxa's proliferate, this creates a devastating asymmetric advantage.
Why it's essential:
- Doubles all counters you place
- Cripples opponents' counter strategies
- A 6/6 trample haste threat
3. Deepglow Skate
Mana Cost:
When Deepglow Skate enters, you choose any permanent and double all counters on it. Drop this with a planeswalker at medium loyalty and watch it instantly ultimate.
Why it's essential:
- Instant planeswalker ultimates
- Can target any permanent (creatures, sagas, etc.)
- Flicker it for repeated value
4. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
Mana Cost:
From Phyrexia: All Will Be One, Tekuthal gives you an additional proliferate whenever you proliferate. With Atraxa's end-step trigger, that's two proliferates per turn cycle minimum.
Why it's essential:
- Doubles every proliferate trigger
- Stacks with Inexorable Tide
- 3/5 flying body
5. Inexorable Tide
Mana Cost:
Every spell you cast triggers a proliferate. In a typical turn casting 2-3 spells plus Atraxa's end step, you're proliferating 3-4 times per turn cycle.
Why it's essential:
- Massive proliferate volume
- Works on every spell type
- Accelerates all game plans
6. Evolution Sage
Mana Cost:
Every landfall triggers a proliferate. With fetch lands or extra land drops, this becomes an engine of counter accumulation.
Why it's essential:
- Proliferate on every land drop
- Synergizes with ramp spells
- Low mana cost for early setup
7. The Ozolith
Mana Cost:
When your creatures with counters die, The Ozolith catches those counters. At combat, you can move them to an attacking creature. This protects your counter investment across board wipes.
Why it's essential:
- Insurance against removal
- Builds up massive counter reserves
- Transfers counters freely
8. Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
Mana Cost:
Her 0 ability draws a card, makes you lose 1 life, and proliferates. In an Atraxa deck, this is free card advantage while building your board.
Why it's essential:
- Free proliferate on 0 ability
- Compleated for discount option
- Ultimate creates assassin tokens with deathtouch
9. Hardened Scales
Mana Cost:
For just
Why it's essential:
- One mana for massive value
- Stacks with Doubling Season effects
- Makes every proliferate more impactful
10. Ichormoon Gauntlet
Mana Cost:
Planeswalkers you control have "0: Proliferate." Additionally, when you proliferate, you get an extra turn after this one for each 9 or more loyalty added. In Superfriends, this enables absurd chains of extra turns.
Why it's essential:
- Every planeswalker can proliferate
- Extra turn potential
- Low artifact cost
11. Karn's Bastion
Mana Cost: Land Type: Land
A colorless land that can proliferate for
Why it's essential:
- Low opportunity cost
- Uncounterable proliferate
- Fits every Atraxa build
12. Bloated Contaminator
Mana Cost:
A 4/4 trample with toxic 1 that proliferates whenever it deals combat damage. This is the bridge between your +1/+1 counter strategy and poison victory.
Why it's essential:
- Combat damage = proliferate
- Toxic 1 adds poison pressure
- 4/4 trample is aggressive
13. Contagion Engine
Mana Cost:
When it enters, put -1/-1 counters on each creature target player controls. Then pay
Why it's essential:
- Removes opposing creatures
- Proliferate twice per activation
- Devastating in long games
14. Sword of Truth and Justice
Mana Cost:
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and protection from white and blue. On combat damage, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature and proliferate. This is perfect on Atraxa herself.
Why it's essential:
- Combat proliferate trigger
- Protection from common removal colors
- Strong stat boost
15. Teferi's Protection
Mana Cost:
Your life total can't change, you have protection from everything, and your permanents phase out until your next turn. This protects your entire counter-laden board from board wipes.
Why it's essential:
- Complete protection
- Preserves all your counters
- Survives any combo
Building Your Best Atraxa Deck
Atraxa offers incredible flexibility—you can build Superfriends, +1/+1 counters, infect/toxic, or a hybrid of all three. The key is maximizing your proliferate triggers and protecting your investments.
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Happy brewing, and may your proliferate triggers be endless!
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