DA MUSCLE REAL by user3570858

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Aristocrats and Theft Midrange strategy commanded by Rakdos, the Muscle. The primary game plan centers on utilizing fast mana and low-cost creatures to establish Rakdos by Turn 4. Once assembled, every sacrificed creature fuels Rakdos's exile ability, allowing the deck to dig deeply into opponents' libraries while casting their spells with mana of any color. Death payoffs such as Mayhem Devil, Blood Artist, and Terror of the Peaks rapidly whittle down opposing life totals while controlling the board. The deck also features a compact instant-win combo with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Zealous Conscripts to bypass stalled combat situations. Although it packs explosive acceleration and resilient recursion, the deck faces challenges against stack-based combo strategies and exile-based board wipes due to limited blue-style countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Void
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Tenacious Dead
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts