Rakdos, the Muscle by Daye019

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 76

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed Rakdos combo list engineered to execute rapid reanimation lines and Underworld Breach storm turns. Its primary route leverages dense 0-1 CMC fast mana and universal tutors to place Hoarding Broodlord onto the battlefield as early as Turn 2 or 3. Once resolved, Broodlord searches for Saw in Half, which clones Broodlord to assemble Burnt Offering and Beseech the Mirror, transitioning seamlessly into Underworld Breach. From there, looping rituals and damage outlets like Mayhem Devil, Blood Artist, or Walking Ballista eliminates the entire pod in a single turn. Backed by Ad Nauseam and Necropotence as alternative high-velocity card engines, the deck maintains high threat density. Red interaction such as Deflecting Swat, Pyroblast, and Red Elemental Blast shields the winning turn against opposing countermagic, while flash stax pieces like Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters disrupt faster opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will