From Exile by PoketheDestroyer

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos Aristocrats strategy led by Rakdos, the Muscle. It generates card advantage and board control by converting sacrificed creatures into impulse card advantage from opponents' libraries. The deck features a compact infinite sacrifice loop using Forsaken Miner paired with Phyrexian Altar or Warren Soultrader, which repeatedly commits crimes through Rakdos's targeting trigger or drain payoffs like Blood Artist and Mayhem Devil. The mana base is supported by low-cost rituals, Treasure generators, and mana rocks that accelerate the commander onto the battlefield ahead of schedule. While the deck possesses strong resilience through extensive graveyard recursion like Reanimate and Chthonian Nightmare, its primary vulnerability lies in graveyard hate and artifact removal directed at its sacrifice outlets.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Dropper
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatal Grudge
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Hurl Through Hell
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Kaervek, the Punisher
  • 1 Kethek, Crucible Goliath
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nalfeshnee
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat