As a player who uses praxix and the soul reaper/mimic combo, I'd like to chime in.
While it may look easy to an observer, pulling off the combo multiple times in a game isn't as easy as it appears. Sure the deck discards plenty of cards into the grave to be used by soul reaper, but getting them there while also maintaining some board control is very difficult. You have to maintain card draw and creature kill, and many strategies involved combos, which means drawing, sacrificing, and holding the right cards at the right time. It isn't the most fluid deck at times. Can get clogged up. And there are very few good matchups for praxix, most decks these days all have the ability to boost and hit for major damage in a matter of turns, so each game has to be played perfectly to achieve the win. Almost all games I play end up with me just on the brink, many times losing to just a bad start, or a good start for my opponent.
Praxix isn't played by all that many players, because it's strategy is completely different depending on what deck your opponent plays. You have to learn how to play against each deck, the same strategy doesn't work across the board. Example
priest deck, most tend to run more than 40 cards often up to 60, I can't just play like normal, ill deck myself before my opponent, so I had to learn how to beat priest.
Mage decks, normal 40 card deck, don't want to play BS, must hurry to find soul reaper/ get allies into grave.
undead decks, vary in size and hero but contain cards that can really throw my deck for a loop. Have to be insanely careful every single turn, avoid using hero ability early.
My point is you must practice a lot, metas change, and so does how you play a praxix deck. It is far from easy.
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