Atreus, Impulsive Son

$3.20

Atreus is a 3-mana reach creature with one activated ability: pay {3} and tap him to draw a card for each experience counter you have, discard a card, and deal 2 damage to each opponent. He makes no experience counters himself, so the deck needs other sources for them. His Father and son partner pairs him with Kratos, God of War, a mono-red double striker that gives all creatures haste and punishes players for leaving creatures at home. The plan is to stack experience and turn Atreus into a repeatable draw and burn engine.

In the recorded games, the deck played mana rocks and cheap creatures to get experience counters early, then used untap effects to activate Atreus more than once a turn. When it worked, each activation drew several cards and chipped two damage off every opponent. Only seven games were recorded, and the deck often started slowly, without enough ramp to reach its bigger turns. Control decks and removal aimed at Atreus or the experience sources held it back. It does best when the table is slow enough for the counters to build.