Infernal Deals by user4819566

Format: Commander

Commander: Mahadi, Emporium Master

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck centers on Mahadi, Emporium Master, leveraging constant creature deaths, edicts, and group-slug attrition to generate large stockpiles of Treasure tokens. The strategy blends classic 'punisher' cards—which present opponents with painful dilemmas between taking direct damage, sacrificing permanents, or discarding cards—with dedicated sacrifice payoffs like Mayhem Devil and Mirkwood Bats. Early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and deploying Mahadi alongside low-cost edicts or token producers like Black Market Connections. As the game progresses, asymmetric board wipes such as Blood Money and Massacre Girl clear opposing boards while generating massive Treasure windfalls on Mahadi's end step. This accumulated wealth fuels decisive late-game win conditions, primarily an overwhelming Torment of Hailfire or an alternate win via Revel in Riches. While the punisher mechanics give opponents leeway to choose their penalties and the deck lacks dedicated stack protection, its redundant mana engines and punishing drain effects reliably close out multiplayer games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bellowing Mauler
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Capital Punishment
  • 1 Clackbridge Troll
  • 1 Coercive Portal
  • 1 Cruel Entertainment
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Do or Die
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Enchanter's Bane
  • 1 Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Glittering Stockpile
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Maddening Hex
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Molten Slagheap
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Pain's Reward
  • 1 Parker Luck
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Protection Racket
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rankle and Torbran
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Risk Factor
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sin Prodder
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temporal Extortion
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Tempting Contract
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Torment of Scarabs
  • 1 Tramway Station
  • 1 Tyrant's Choice
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Village Pillagers
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
  • 1 Xorn