Rakdos Dragon by HawthornVine

Format: Commander

Commander: Rivaz of the Claw

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Rakdos Dragon deck is a reanimator battlecruiser built around Rivaz of the Claw, who both accelerates Dragon casts and recycles one Dragon from the graveyard each turn. Buried Alive and Entomb put Anger, Scourge of the Throne, Terror of Mount Velus, or Twinflame Tyrant in the yard, then Rivaz or cheap reanimation spells cheat them into play. The primary kill is a single alpha strike: haste from Anger or Dragon Tempest, double strike or double damage, and three combat phases from Scourge plus Fury of the Horde to hit each opponent for lethal. Hoarding Broodlord is the hidden commander: it tutors Dracogenesis, which then removes mana costs from all later Dragons.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boneyard Scourge
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dracogenesis
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Fury of the Horde
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Hidden Volcano
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sarkhan, Fireblood
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stormscale Scion
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of the Dragon Queen
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terror of Mount Velus
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Thundermane Dragon
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital