Within the archetype of stax, she allows us to acrew value on our board without actually casting more spells. So to preemptively ban this card because a small subset of commander metas around the world will have a hard time dealing with it, is hard for me to get behind, especially if that's the same subset that will have a Force of Will, an Assassin's Trophy, a Cyclonic Rift and/or a Mystical Tutor to find those or a different answer with OP agent on the stack.Why Atraxa? Atraxa allows the use of some of the best colored artifacts like The Great Henge, Bolas's Citadel, Etherium Sculptor, and Bronze Guardian that a typical artifact deck may not be able to run together.Ītraxa enables some otherwise pretty janky cards to the point where they are usable or downright broken! I love that! As a creature, she is a powerhouse and I really dig her style and abilities.

The rest of the world, who can just cast a 6-power creature from their hand, or the command zone, and start beating the player who forbids them to play their deck until he is no more, along with the other 2 players who don't have an OP agent in play and like to see it gone, will shrug and consider this the next unfun stax piece, like Stasis, Winter Orb, Armageddon, Cursed Totem, Drannith Magistrate, Notion Thief, Narset, Parter of Veils, Counterbalance + Sensei's Divining Top, Glacial Chasm and others that have mostly been self-restricted at 90% of all EDH playgroups in the world, but not banned. It sounds like only the most powerful decks and tables are not ready for the impact of this card, the paradigm shift that searching your library to find exactly what you need at any time, can be answered now, and might no longer be the best thing to do in any situation, it might even lose you the game now. Getting your stuff stolen feels bad, however, so this will immediately make the top Salt Cards list on EDHrec. If that was enough to be banned from a format, Null Rod and Collector Ouphe would have been banned ages ago, because almost every deck plays mana rocks (23 out of 100 are hosed by those). 9 of them only search your library for land(s). If you can't answer a 3/2 with your hand and/or boardstate, without searching your library, or if your deck can't win without its Thassa's Oracle, yes, then this card is a major problem for you.īut in the top 100 cards on EDHrec, there's 16 that get hosed by OP agent. OP agent, like Aven Mindcensor, Stranglehold, Mindlock Orb and Leonin Arbiter, will absolutely WRECK cEDH tables, nobody will disagree with that. But not really, because every tutor counts as every other card in your deck that it can find. Which is currently the most powerful way to play magic in EDH, because you're playing singleton. The problems you are projecting are only for tables that rely on their tutors to do anything they want to, with only interaction, tutors, and instant, hard-to-interact-with win-the-game combo pieces in their deck. Commander players all over the world like to play suboptimal decks with janky combos, tokens, big creatures, tribes, any way to personalize the experience and make it fun to play. I will not be jamming Hullbreacher in my temur landfall deck, Opposition Agent will not make the cut for Rankle, Master of Pranks, nor for Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (excellent answer right there in the command zone btw). Because the way you picture it, there will be no decks left not playing blue or black in the world. I think a lot more players than you assume, play the game to play the game, and just don't like to lock up tables in the magnitude you're suggesting. Opposition Agent needs a preemptive â€¦ 1 year ago

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