RAKDOS DA MUSCLE by user3945426

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle is a single-faced commander and the deck's engine: every sacrifice exiles cards from an opponent's library and lets you cast them, turning fodder into card advantage. The primary plan is to ramp into Rakdos, generate tokens, and sacrifice them to trigger his ability while draining with Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mayhem Devil. The compact win is Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Rakdos: a mana-neutral loop that exiles all opponents' libraries. Secondary paths are Dreadfeast Demon's exponential demon army, Doomsday Excruciator mill-out, and theft/cascade from exile. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built to use Rakdos's sacrifice trigger.

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 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 Torch Courier
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 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
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat