When Atarkas not killing players with commander damage, its usually doing a good job of giving your other dragons double strike, which means it even has an impact on combat the turn it comes into play
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Its even more restrictive than something like Infect, which at least interacts well with mechanics such as Proliferate
Just attacking with this for 5 is like a big burn spell, it works well with Undying Evil, and even if you lose this, the renew ability distributing decayed counters paves the way for big attacks
In practice, however, Faerie Mastermind usually draws somewhere in the two-to-three range