Rakdos make em hurt big boy by nikkedog

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Rakdos aggro-midrange build centered on Rakdos, Lord of Riots. The deck operates by utilizing dense, low-cost life-loss enablers—such as Spear Spewer, Creeping Bloodsucker, and Thermo-Alchemist—to satisfy the commander's casting restriction by Turn 4. Once Rakdos attacks on Turn 5, combat damage converts directly into massive colorless mana reductions for creature spells. This allows the pilot to flood the board with devastating high-CMC payoffs like Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, Rune-Scarred Demon, and Sandstone Oracle for merely their colored pips. The resulting board state generates immense card advantage, board control, and lethal combat pressure, closing out games by Turn 6. While the deck boasts high functional redundancy, rapid recovery through reanimation, and potent removal, it relies heavily on timing its commander's deployment and remains exposed to well-timed instant-speed removal or sweepers during its single response cycle.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lobber Crew
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plague Spitter
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sanctum of Stone Fangs
  • 1 Sandstone Oracle
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unruly Catapult
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Whip of Erebos