Atla Palani, Nest Tender | Upping the Average 

I have a very potent atla deck that is a bit more simple and coherent than a lot of lists. One of my favs but not at all budget friendly.

That is a spicy little budget add, a free sac outlet that can not be interacted with, with the threat of slamming down later.

Can confirm this card performs so well.

I won a game tonight with that card. absolute bomb with Gishath in dino tribal. very good in this deck too.

Scrolled down the to comments EGG-specting to see some silliness like this...

Good one !

Blasting station is the best card in my Atla deck

Add an old Eldrazi and you can recycle and get infinite ETBs and kill everyone with say... Inferno Titan or something. Or that one dragon that is basically Warstorm Surge. If I'm understanding the sequence correctly. Correct me if I'm wrong please!

I've been playing my Atla deck for almost three years, and i love casting Shields in response to a boardwipe. Nobody expects it!

I have Ghired's Belligerence in my maybe board and want to try it out and I think soon I'm going to cut something for it.

@@MTGSavage Good luck! If you have the chance, let me know what you think about it.

@@Dynoboot Definitely will. Thanks!

you have access to green 2 cmc ramp so you can always run more tokens to destroy and less artifacts. good addition absolutely!

Its black and white....

I second the vote for one on Reaper King because I'm constantly tweaking it and still am not completely satisfied. Maybe for a fun Halloween Special?

This is why I switched to Atla😅

These are some really good points. Thank you

One important thing with kogla, you can also use him to return atla to your hand in response to some board wipes, and prevent commander tax while saving him.

It's not terrible, but it gets completely overshadowed by Maskwood Nexus, and I doubt you'd want both.

Your mileage may vary, but the sac part seems slow for the egg. I want to sac the egg in response to a removal spell at my choice for timing. Not wait for my upkeep. Also, can't guarantee haste on whatever hatched. I want to sac at the end step of the player right before me. What happens if I kill Atla, you have no tokens out to sac and you end up having to sac your only creature, say, Avacyn for example? that just feels bad. I like the line of thinking, but I'm going to play a lot of angels and dragons in this list so the flying part is going to be largely redundant.

@@fatbackblazer the important thing is boardwipe protection, the other things are just on top of that. btw its also an anthem and i forgot that cause so much other things on it xD. ofc it would be better if its done by a creature (thats the part i would also understad why players take it out or doesnt put in at first place), but there arent much. if i remember correct 1 angle for indestructable, 2-3 creatures for hexproof and some creatures that negates damage and if you dont have the money, eldrazi monument is a good budget option, but also a strong option at all (outside of the combo atla). This is cause the other players need specific removals. on a higher power meta this could still happen, yes but it doesnt mean you just let them do theyr thing too or have no backup after that. ofc you most likely to not ever get the monument back, cause its not part of your main strategie to play artefacts (i mean you still could^^). the anthem and flying on top of that is also something you just buy everytime as long most creatures arent flying, but even i would think about it cause of the indestructable and +1+1. the creature that profit from it at least is zetalpa and there i also think, hey it gets +1+1 xD i agree it would be insane if that card would also give haste, but cause it doesnt you need other ways (you commander could pop an answer for that :D). i also agree that it feels bad if you have to sac a big creature cause the enermies went somehow arount it, but also then they played it well. Normally you would sac a egg, a token or nothing cause it got removed. You just cant play a lot of non creaturebased buffs and there you need to be picky, so what would replace a 5 mana anthem that gives indestructable, flying +1+1 for all your creatures and a one time sac? a 7 mana anthem that gives flying, firststrike, vigilance, haste, trample, pro red and black? maybe a overrun? or what would be your choise there?

If you're not running it in your deck you're playing Atla wrong lol

@@MTGSavage I don't think people who play differently than me are playing the game wrong. But ok.

@@bobbiechristine For the value Mirror Entity provides why wouldn't you play it?

@@MTGSavage I literally never want to hatch into a 1/1. I find with enough card draw and both Velis spells, I run across the effect frequent enough. Elesh Norn, Void Winnower, Vorinclex... Running things like this makes hatching one egg usually more than enough.

@@bobbiechristine Yeah but the versatility of being able to turn all your creatures that you couldn’t potentially save from a board wipe into all eggs with Atla and get a whole new board can’t overlooked. Not only that but if you have a Rhythm of the Wild out or any way to put a +1/+1 counter on Atla and Mirror Entity activate the Entities ability you can potentially just get all creatures out of your deck if you have a Eldrazi that shuffles your graveyard back in and loop your creatures entering/dying with certain effects that would just kill the table.

No, you cannot regenerate a sacrificed creature

atla's eggs have defender, they can't attack. I use dragon broodmother to both build a flying board and devour eggs. there's thermopod if you want a sacrifice outlet in the form of creature, that even gives you mana.

@@drorian True, changlings can I suppose. Forgot that eggs have defender, I'm still in the testing/planning phases of my current build. I have Dragon Broodmother in a deck and totally didn't think about having her in this deck, that's a very nice include. Also, never heard of Thermopod, I will definitely make a note of that one!