RAKDOS DA MUSCLE by user3945426

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle turns every sacrifice into card advantage, exiling cards from an opponent's library and letting you cast them with any mana. The deck leans into a sacrifice-matters shell: disposable tokens from Lagomos, Pawn of Ulamog, and Dreadfeast Demon feed drain payoffs like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat while Grim Haruspex and Morbid Opportunist keep the hand full. The commander can also protect itself with indestructible, though doing so taps it. Secondary win paths are combat with flying demons, a one-turn life total set by Master of Cruelties, and direct damage from Cut // Ribbons or Juri's death trigger. There is no hidden commander or double-faced commander; the deck is built entirely around Rakdos's triggered ability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Cadaver Imp
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cut // Ribbons
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Deathbringer Regent
  • 1 Defiler of Flesh
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dreadfeast Demon
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hobblefiend
  • 1 Infernal Rebirth
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Live or Die
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 16 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reno and Rude
  • 1 Rise Again
  • 1 S.H.I.E.L.D. Spy Satellite
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Severed Strands
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spiteful Prankster
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Titan Hunter
  • 1 Torch Courier
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat