Rakdos De Spier by user9092675

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Rakdos Aristocrats combo strategy built around Rakdos, the Muscle. It uses fast rituals, efficient mana rocks, and sacrifice fodder to rapidly deploy the commander and establish a commanding card-advantage engine from exile. The primary win condition revolves around a deterministic loop between Rakdos, the Muscle, Warren Soultrader, and Forsaken Miner: sacrificing the Miner creates Treasure and triggers Rakdos to exile an opponent's card, which counts as a crime and allows the Miner to return for one black mana. Repeating this process completely exiles all opposing libraries in a single turn. Backup lines leverage Popular Egotist or Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER to drain opponents directly without needing the commander. Supported by free interaction like Deflecting Swat and resilient reanimation engines like Underworld Breach and Chthonian Nightmare, the deck operates with high speed and adaptability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Therapy
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Patron of the Arts
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Popular Egotist
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Thunderscape Familiar
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 _____ Goblin