Burn To Hell by jamikoXseajay

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos Group Slug and Spellslinger Burn strategy designed to turn every basic game action into lethal life loss. Commanded by Rakdos, Lord of Riots, the deck deploys a dense curve of early pingers such as Firebrand Archer, Kessig Flamebreather, and Razorkin Needlehead, along with passive draw punishers like Underworld Dreams and Fate Unraveler. These early threats enable casting the commander while softening enemy life totals for massive mid-game damage amplifiers, including Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, and Twinflame Tyrant. The deck builds toward decisive must-answer threats on Turn 5, pairing life-halving effects like Heartless Hidetsugu or Wound Reflection with damage doublers or mass burn spells like Flame Rift and Price of Progress to close out the game on Turn 6 across a single response cycle. While highly independent of its commander and packed with redundant threats, it remains vulnerable to targeted creature removal and lacks stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aether Sting
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Caldera Pyremaw
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Far Fortune, End Boss
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fervor
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Firespitter Whelp
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gideon the Oathless
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hammer of Purphoros
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Immolation Shaman
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Iron Maiden
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Lambholt Raconteur // Lambholt Ravager
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thor, God of Thunder
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tor Wauki the Younger
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Wound Reflection