Rakdos burn by user75384

Format: Commander

Commander: Ingris Stingerquill

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos reanimator combo and token burn engine commanded by Ingris Stingerquill. The primary path to victory revolves around entombing Worldgorger Dragon and reanimating it with Animate Dead to establish an infinite mana and permanent-flicker loop. This loop wins on the spot through repeated damage triggers from Mount Doom, Impact Tremors, or by creating infinite hasty 2/2 Cadet tokens with Ingris's activated ability. Backing up the primary combo is a resilient suite of alternative win conditions, including a devastating swarm generated by Plague of Vermin, massive Torment of Hailfire casts powered by rituals like Mana Geyser, and table-wide reanimation with Rise of the Dark Realms. The deck leverages dense low-cost artifact ramp and potent black tutors to assemble its pieces quickly by Turn 5. Its primary vulnerability lies in an absence of cheap stack protection and dedicated card-draw engines, making careful timing necessary when initiating the combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argentum Armor
  • 1 Armillary Sphere
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Ascendant Evincar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blazing Volley
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpse Connoisseur
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Collusion
  • 1 Diabolic Revelation
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Environmental Sciences
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Iron Myr
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 6 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 6 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Worldgorger Dragon