RAKDOS DA MUSCLE by user3945426

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle is an aristocrats-style value engine that turns every sacrificed creature into card advantage: the commander exiles cards from the top of a library and lets you cast them, while token makers and free sacrifice outlets keep the machine running. Blood Artist, Mayhem Devil, Goblin Bombardment, and Juri convert deaths into life loss, and cast-from-exile payoffs such as Wild-Magic Sorcerer and Shadow of the Goblin multiply the value of Rakdos's exiles. The deck closes games through repeated pings, commander beats, and occasional big plays like Mob Rule or Dreadfeast Demon. It is a midrange grinder rather than a combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Author of Shadows
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Defiler of Flesh
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doomed Dissenter
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dreadfeast Demon
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hobblefiend
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Live or Die
  • 1 Maalfeld Twins
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reno and Rude
  • 1 Rise Again
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torch Courier
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog