Not only does Atraxa provide a near immediate benefit but itll continue to pose a problem for your opponents if they dont have an answer for her

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JC had this very intuitive sense of when something wasn't right structurally, which was very helpful
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When you do, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among cards in your graveyard