Sac, Sac, Sac by user2535082

Format: Commander

Commander: Akul the Unrepentant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Rakdos aristocrats and monster-cheating strategy commanded by Akul the Unrepentant. The primary game plan focuses on deploying low-cost token generators such as Bitterblossom, Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, and Lord Skitter, Sewer King during the opening turns. On Turn 4, casting Akul allows the immediate sacrifice of three creatures to cheat massive game-ending bombs into play, including Blightsteel Colossus, It That Betrays, Terror of the Peaks, and Ancient Brass Dragon. Once established, the deck applies severe combat and direct damage pressure while compounding asymmetric attrition through sacrifice payoffs like Grave Pact, Butcher of Malakir, and Mayhem Devil. Backup lines utilize graveyard reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Victimize, and Living Death to bypass commander reliance entirely. While vulnerable to well-timed instant-speed creature removal and sweepers during its setup phase, the deck generates high resource velocity and closes games within two response cycles of critical onset.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Overlord
  • 1 Akul the Unrepentant
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Beetleback Chief
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Elemental Mastery
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Hordeling Outburst
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mass Mutiny
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Triniform
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant
  • 1 Warstorm Surge