Helldrazi by brandon.mendez

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a high-impact Rakdos battlecruiser deck commanded by Rakdos, Lord of Riots. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap pingers on the first three turns—such as Spear Spewer, Thermo-Alchemist, and Creeping Bloodsucker—to deal reliable global damage, fulfilling the casting condition for Rakdos on Turn 4. Once Rakdos connects in combat on Turn 5, the massive life loss discounts generic mana costs to near zero, enabling the deck to flood the board with devastating colorless Eldrazi, Colossi, and high-end Demons like Pathrazer of Ulamog, Desolation Twin, and Blightsteel Colossus. The deck protects its board through clever redirection spells such as Bolt Bend and Return the Favor, while utilizing Archfiend of Depravity and Annihilator triggers to systematically dismantle opposing boards over two combat cycles, concluding in a decisive combat victory around Turn 7. A secondary two-card combo of Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond offers an alternate instant win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Breaker of Creation
  • 1 Brimstone Trebuchet
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Deceiver of Form
  • 1 Demon of Loathing
  • 1 Desolation Twin
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Drannith Ruins
  • 1 Elturel Survivors
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Flayer of Loyalties
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Goblin Picker
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lightning-Rig Crew
  • 1 Lobber Crew
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Ricochet Trap
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thornbow Archer
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wild Ricochet