Atla Palani, Beat Down

by kcir24 on 08 April 2023

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Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Atla Palani, Beat Down

FYI, your Ulamogs won't trigger their abilities if they're hatched from eggs. If you're using them for their other abilites, then that's fine.
Have you considered Godo, Bandit Warlord? If you hatch him, then fetch and attach Helm of the Host, then you can use the copies to attack, get a second attack phase, which makes another copy with haste, triggering again, etc. Basically, attack with a 3/3, an infinite amount of times.

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Posted 09 April 2023 at 13:46

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Our group tries not to run infinite combos. But yeah the Ulamog's are for their other features.

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Posted 10 April 2023 at 03:05

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That's fair, being able to shufffle the graveyard back to the library is quite important with Atla. By the way, Sundering Titan is banned in commander for some reason. :(

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Posted 10 April 2023 at 20:24

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sundering titan is mass land removal that u can reuse so it is broken

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Posted 10 April 2023 at 22:52

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Yeah, that'd probably be why. :)

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Posted 11 April 2023 at 17:41

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maskwood nexus would be really good here u can create eggs and it makes all of your creatures eggs

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Posted 10 April 2023 at 22:59

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Yep, it's one of the wincons in my Atla deck, but Kcir is specifically avoiding infinite combos for their playgroup. It's particularly broken with any of the Altars - just keep going until you get one of the cratures that shuffle back to your library on death and then repeat. Add OG Purphoros or Terror of the Peaks, and you are sorted!

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Posted 11 April 2023 at 17:40

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You could get a weaker (non-infinite) form of the mask with the instant spell "Shields of Velis Vel".

How about adding in "Evolutionary leap", Aether Flux and/or Pyrohemia as additional egg killing methods (you need a lot more methods than you have right now)?

why is dawn of hope in there?

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Posted 11 April 2023 at 21:16

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To justify my comment on not having enough egg killers.
https://stattrek.com/online-calculator/hypergeometric

The odds of having a kill method in hand on turn 5 (sample size 7 + 5):
8 cards - 65%
10 Cards - 75%
12 Cards - 80%

I counted 8 sources when i looked at your list (Im disregarding the staff as you would not be able to use it on the first turn you make an egg to kill that egg).

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Posted 11 April 2023 at 21:54

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ashnod's altar was just reprinted so it is cheaper and a great add

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Posted 12 April 2023 at 22:53

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kodama of the east tree rocks here also because when an egg puts a creature in kodama will let you cheat another in from hand

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Posted 12 April 2023 at 22:57

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[[Witch's Oven]] and [[Ashnod's Altar]], would both be good budget-friendly adds.
Would definitely get rid of [[Final Judgement]], as it wont trigger the eggs.

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Posted 12 April 2023 at 22:57

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Thanks, for all the thoughts guys. Great stuff.

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Posted 14 April 2023 at 03:03

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Re: Kodama

Kodama might not actually work for this deck due to its CMC distribution and current creature count. It has to be less or equal to the "cheated card". Making the Kodama effect happen is going to require ensuring you have a valid creature in hand.

there are only 20 creatures in this deck (20%) and no mass card or creature tutors (to hand). Using Kodama's ability more than once is going to require some significant luck.

On the other hand, this deck would REALLY benefit from creature focused top deck manipulation (as it would ensure that your egg spawns whatever you specifically want it to be).

Slyvan Tutor
Wordly Tutor
Congregation at dawn
Reinforcements

Some other oddities:

1) Summoner's Egg: This card was hit with an errata, that now classifies it as an "egg" creature type. (MTGvault did not make the adjustment so you don't see it when searching for the "egg" creature type). In addition to cheating out a creature from your hand, it would also trigger atla's ability upon death.

2) Scroll Rack: Repeatable effect that draw a new hand and puts the old one on top of your library. You can use that to not only ensure you hit your land drops, you are also putting a big creature from hand on top of your library to be cheated into play by Atla.

3) Maskwood Nexus: Every creature you control (as well as in your library and graveyard") now has the "egg" creature type. Therefore, they will replace themselves after a board wipe. There are also some instants and creatures that would do the same thing. You can also now create an additional 2/2 "egg" each turn for three mana.



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Posted 18 April 2023 at 18:01

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Edit: I didn't notice that Kodama works with any permanent, not just creatures. that makes it significantly better.

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Posted 18 April 2023 at 20:09

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