New Untitled Deck by DuskRaider87

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Rakdos burn-based strategy helmed by Rakdos, Lord of Riots, aiming to deal damage early to enable his cost-reduction ability, then pouring out massive Eldrazi threats like Ulamog's Crusher, Pathrazer of Ulamog, Artisan of Kozilek, and Desolation Twin at drastically reduced mana. The early game revolves around cheap pings from creatures such as Guttersnipe, Firebrand Archer, Kessig Flamebreather, Spear Spewer, and burn spells including Lightning Bolt, Shock, and Burst Lightning. These ensure opponent life loss each turn so Rakdos can be cast and his discount active. Secondary win conditions include Heartless Hidetsugu halving life totals to set up a finishing strike, and Vial Smasher the Fierce adding random damage with each spell. There are no infinite combos; the primary path is overwhelming mana advantage and relentless annihilator triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breaker of Armies
  • 1 Bump in the Night
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolation Twin
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadbore
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lavaclaw Reaches
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lobber Crew
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Play with Fire
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Seal of Fire
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skewer the Critics
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Mire
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sweltering Suns
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tramway Station
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Worn Powerstone