Small Spark, Big Burn [Raphael, Fiendish Savior] by Dr_Sascha

Format: Commander

Commander: Raphael, Fiendish Savior

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Raphael, Fiendish Savior leads a Rakdos midrange deck that turns Demons, Devils, Imps, and Tieflings into lifelinking attackers while burn triggers and damage multipliers close out games. The deck wants to develop a board of tribal creatures, use Raphael's anthem and lifelink to stabilize, then amplify attack and death triggers with Fiery Emancipation, City on Fire, Fiendish Duo, and Bloodletter of Aclazotz. Secondary paths include Demon-tribal beatdown with Ormendahl, Profane Prince, sacrifice-value loops with Mayhem Devil and Goblin Bombardment, and a Demon win condition in Liliana's Contract. The commander is a multiplier and removal magnet rather than a required engine; the deck can still play big Demons and burn without him.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Body Dropper
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Burn Down the House
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conductor of Cacophony
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demonlord Belzenlok
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elturel Survivors
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Footlight Fiend
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Hatred
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellrider
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Iron Myr
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Madame Null, Power Broker
  • 1 Maddening Hex
  • 1 Mages' Contest
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Molten Influence
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rage Reflection
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Keyrune
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Rakdos, the Showstopper
  • 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Spiteful Prankster
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: G.F. Ifrit
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Torch Fiend
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus