Rakdos Lifegain by peanutfury

Format: Commander

Commander: Ingris Stingerquill

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a aggressive Rakdos burn and lifegain drain strategy commanded by Ingris Stingerquill. The game plan deploys low-cost creatures early to establish an immediate attacking presence. Once Ingris enters on Turn 3, each attacking creature deals direct noncombat damage to every opponent simultaneously. The deck scales this group damage using static amplifiers like Thor, Asgard's Avenger, Hawkeye, Young Avenger, and Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit, while converting combat damage into symmetric life loss through drain engines such as Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Defiling Daemogoth, and Marauding Blight-Priest. Impulse card advantage from Florian, Voldaren Scion and Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin maintains hand velocity, and cards like Kardur, Doomscourge manipulate opposing combat to buy time. Although the deck lacks heavy counter-protection and dedicated enchantment removal, its high redundancy and reanimation tools allow it to maintain relentless pressure and close games by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Revolt
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Archfiend's Vessel
  • 1 Banehound
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Fireglass Mentor
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Gifted Aetherborn
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Gumdrop Poisoner // Tempt with Treats
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hellrider
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Legion Loyalist
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Master of Barbs
  • 1 Morlun, Devourer of Spiders
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Nightmare's Thirst
  • 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Protection Racket
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Quicksilver, Brash Blur
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 20 Swamp
  • 1 Taunting Kobold
  • 1 Thor, Asgard's Avenger
  • 1 Tivash, Gloom Summoner
  • 1 Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vampire Cutthroat
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Whip of Erebos