Carnage by rjposadas87

Format: Commander

Commander: Carnage, Crimson Chaos

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 62

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck combines reanimator speed with aristocrat attrition, centered around Carnage, Crimson Chaos. The deck uses explosive fast mana and graveyard tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive to set up high-impact low-cost creatures in the graveyard. Carnage enters early to resurrect aggressive threats such as Lightning Skelemental or key engine pieces like Warren Soultrader and Agent Venom, forcing combat attacks and generating immediate sacrifice triggers. High-velocity card advantage from Necropotence, The One Ring, and Yawgmoth fuels explosive turns. Opponents face severe creature suppression and hand destruction through Grave Pact, Mayhem Devil, and Lightning Skelemental hits. The deck closes games around Turn 5 by converting creature sacrifices into direct damage via Blood Artist, Marionette Apprentice, and Goblin Bombardment, or by storming through the graveyard with Underworld Breach.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anje's Ravager
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ares, God of War
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodtithe Harvester
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Lightning Skelemental
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triarch Praetorian
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voldaren Epicure
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat