Atraxa Superfriends: Four-Color Planeswalkers
Atraxa Superfriends Modern is one of Modern’s most resilient control decks — a four-color planeswalker pile built around Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice ticking up loyalty, protecting itself with -2/-2 counters, and grinding opponents into dust with a deep walker stack. The core idea is simple: deploy three to four planeswalkers in the first five turns, refuse to lose to creature decks, and ride a single card-draw engine to victory. According to recent MTGGoldfish archetype data, the deck maintains a Tier-2 win rate against most of the metagame while costing roughly $850 in paper.
This guide walks through the 75-card Modern 2026 list, the five planeswalkers that make the deck work, how to sideboard against Burn, Murktide, and Tron, and what a proxy-first version looks like for players who want the experience without the $850 entry fee.
| 📋 Table of Contents | |
|---|---|
| 1. | Deck Identity |
| 2. | The Decklist |
| 3. | The 4 Planeswalkers That Win Games |
| 4. | How Atraxa Superfriends Wins Games |
| 5. | Matchups: The 4 You Need to Know |
| 6. | Sideboard Strategy |
| 7. | How to Get Started |
Deck Identity
The Decklist
Source: makeproxycard.com · Modern 2026 build · View on MTGGoldfish
The list plays 12 planeswalkers across five different card types, eight removal and counter spells, and a 21-land manabase that supports four colors and all five snow-covered basics. The 15-card sideboard is tuned for the most common Modern matchups — Veil of Summer for combo, Collector Ouphe for artifact decks, Stony Silence for the same.
The 4 Planeswalkers That Win Games
Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice — The Win Condition
The deck is built around this card. Atraxa costs four mana, enters with four loyalty, and ticks up each turn to draw a card, proliferate counters, or remove opposing threats. In a deck full of planeswalkers, Atraxa is the engine that turns walkers into card advantage — every tick doubles up on loyalty, planeswalker removal gets punished, and the deck threatens to overwhelm opponents with raw card quality.
Teferi, Time Raveler — The Lock Piece
Teferi, Time Raveler locks out opposing combo decks while bouncing problematic permanents every turn. The -3 ability bounces any permanent, the +1 draws a card, and the static ability prevents opponents from casting spells at instant speed — which single-handedly answers cascade decks like Living End and Rhinos.
Source: Scryfall — Ravnica Remastered #232, illustrated by Chris Rallis.
Narset, Parter of Veils — The Card Advantage Engine
Narset’s static ability prevents opponents from drawing extra cards. In a format full of cantrip-heavy combo and control decks, Narset single-handedly breaks parity. The +2 digs deeper into the deck, finding the next planeswalker or removal spell when you need it most.
Source: Scryfall — Commander Masters #853, illustrated by Magali Villeneuve.
Karn, the Great Creator — The Sideboard Tutor
Karn, the Great Creator comes down turn four, ticks up to seven loyalty, and starts tutoring silver-bullet artifacts from the sideboard every turn. Need an answer to an artifact deck? Tutor Collector Ouphe. Need graveyard hate? Tutor Relic of Progenitus. Karn turns a 15-card sideboard into a toolbox that can answer any problem.
Source: Scryfall — Ravnica Remastered #1, illustrated by Wisnu Tan.
How Atraxa Superfriends Wins Games
The deck wins through attrition. You deploy two to three planeswalkers in the first four turns, protect them with cheap removal and counter magic, and ride card advantage to victory. The fundamental pattern:
1. Early game (turns 1-3): Fetch basics, deploy Bloodbraid Elf or Wrenn and Six, hold up Force of Negation 2. Mid game (turns 4-6): Cast Atraxa or Teferi, start ticking up loyalty 3. Late game (turns 7+): Cast Narset to lock out opposing card draw, deploy Liliana of the Veil to strip hands, and grind opponents into submission
Most games end with the opponent conceding to accumulated planeswalker loyalty rather than a single haymaker.
Source: Scryfall — Innistrad Remastered #475, illustrated by Steve Argyle.
Matchups: The 4 You Need to Know
Against Burn (60/40 favored): Burn is the deck’s best matchup. Lifegain from Atraxa’s proliferate, removal for all their creatures, and Wrenn and Six’s land-swap life buffer all add up. Sideboard in 2 Lavinia to lock them out of activating spectacle on Light Up the Stage.
Against Murktide Regent (50/50): This is a real fight. Murktide tries to go over the top with giant fliers; you answer with Narset’s static and Liliana’s discard. Sideboard in Ashiok, Dream Render to strip their graveyard and pressure their card selection.
Against Tron (40/60 unfavorable): Tron is the deck’s worst matchup. Their 7-mana haymakers come down before your planeswalkers stabilize, and their artifact mana blanks your counter magic. Sideboard in Collector Ouphe and Stony Silence to slow them down, and hope to find both.
Against Death’s Shadow (55/45 favored): Shadow’s clock is fast but linear. Discard their threats with Liliana and Thoughtseize, deploy planeswalkers before they can race, and use Wrenn and Six to gain life against their double-strike swings.
Sideboard Strategy
The 15-card sideboard is built around three core plans:
The key is flexibility. Karn, the Great Creator can tutor any artifact from the sideboard during the game, which means your artifact hate is always available without needing to draw the silver bullet.
- Combo hate: Veil of Summer, Ashiok, Dream Render, Lavinia
- Artifact hate: Collector Ouphe, Stony Silence, Fracturing Gust
- Threat answers: Celestial Purge, Rest in Peace, Surgical Extraction, Kozilek’s Return
How to Get Started
Building Atraxa Superfriends in paper costs roughly $850-$1,100 in July 2026. The most expensive cards are Atraxa ($33), Wrenn and Six ($9), Teferi ($7), Liliana ($7), and Thoughtseize ($8). For players who want the experience without the price tag, proxying the entire 75-card list costs around $50 at MakeProxyCard — Atraxa, Teferi, Narset, and the other planeswalkers all print at tournament quality with sharp text and accurate colors.