Rakdos Shi by Wrankbottom

Format: Commander

Commander: Lagomos, Hand of Hatred

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos aristocrats strategy led by Lagomos, Hand of Hatred. The core game plan focuses on generating free 2/1 Elemental tokens during each of your combat steps and feeding them into sacrifice outlets and death-trigger payoffs like Mayhem Devil, Juri, Master of the Revue, and Popular Egotist. While the deck efficiently generates incremental value and card advantage through low-cost sacrifice spells, it lacks fast mana and dedicated infinite combos. Instead, it plays an attrition game, gradually whittling down opposing life totals before closing the game with heavy hitters like Dreadfeast Demon, Fear of Burning Alive, or Dictate of the Twin Gods. Its interaction suite effectively handles opposing creatures and artifacts, but the deck remains vulnerable to board wipes and enchantment-heavy strategies due to minimal protective shielding and narrow stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Betrayer's Bargain
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Boar-q-pine
• 1 Boiling Rock Prison
• 1 Bone Splinters
• 1 Bushmeat Poacher
• 1 Cartouche of Zeal
• 1 Charging Strifeknight
• 1 Cinder Barrens
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Desert of the Glorified
• 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1 Diversion Specialist
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreadfeast Demon
• 1 Fear of Burning Alive
• 1 Final Vengeance
• 1 Fireblade Artist
• 1 Fireblast
• 1 Fling
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Geomancer's Gambit
• 1 Geothermal Bog
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Havoc Jester
• 1 Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos
• 1 In Thrall to the Pit
• 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
• 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
• 1 Kuro's Taken
• 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
• 1 Lasting Tarfire
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mind Stone
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nowhere to Run
• 1 Osseous Sticktwister
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phyrexian Ghoul
• 1 Piggy Bank
• 1 Popular Egotist
• 1 Putrid Goblin
• 1 Pyre Hound
• 1 Pyroclasm
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Razorkin Hordecaller
• 1 Razortrap Gorge
• 1 Ripchain Razorkin
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Ruinous Gremlin
• 1 Saw
• 1 Sawblade Skinripper
• 1 Scorched Rusalka
• 1 Skittering Precursor
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smashing Success
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sower of Chaos
• 1 Sulfurous Mire
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Terminal Agony
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
• 1 Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate
• 1 Tooth and Claw
• 1 Tormenting Voice
• 1 Tormentor's Helm
• 1 Undead Sprinter
• 1 Urborg Uprising
• 1 Vengeful Possession
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Violent Impact
• 1 War Effort
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Writhing Necromass
• 1 Yavimaya Steelcrusher
• 1 Zhao, Ruthless Admiral
• 1 Zookeeper Mechan