Rakdos by Slayer93cjn

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle leads a black-red sacrifice-combo deck that wins by looping cheap creatures through alternate-cost recursion while draining the table. The core is the Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Blood Artist combination: sacrifice Gravecrawler, create a Treasure, pay for its recast, and repeat until all opponents lose life. Secondary lines use Phyrexian Altar/Chthonian Nightmare recursion and a Doomsday Excruciator library-thinning pile with Rakdos. Rakdos himself is a card-advantage engine, converting every sacrifice into exiled castable cards and serving as the crime enabler for Forsaken Miner loops, but he is not mandatory for the main combo. There is no hidden commander; Dargo, the Shipwrecker is a beatdown option, not a partner.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desperate Plea
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Into the Pit
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Miren, the Moaning Well
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 9 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 13 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment