RUN EM DOWN RAKDOS by user7235682

Format: Commander

Commander: Setzer, Wandering Gambler

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This deck is a synergy-driven Rakdos aggro and artifact deck commanded by Setzer, Wandering Gambler. The strategy centers on deploying Vehicles, crewing them with low-cost pilots or the commander, and leveraging combat connections to generate Treasure tokens through coin flips. On Turn 3, Setzer enters and creates The Blackjack, attacking on Turn 4 to jumpstart mana acceleration. In the midgame, the deck broadens its fleet with formidable artifact threats like Demolition Stomper, Cybership, and Mechtitan Core, supplemented by passive drain from Reckless Fireweaver and Pactdoll Terror. Decisive wins are achieved around Turn 7 to 9 through mass animation and double strike effects such as Start Your Engines, Cleaver Riot, and Berserkers' Onslaught. While Vehicles naturally evade sorcery-speed creature sweepers when uncrewed, the deck features minimal interaction and zero dedicated stack protection, relying primarily on aggressive board pressure and high permanent redundancy to overwhelm opposing life totals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Airship
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Arcbound Condor
  • 1 Back on Track
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blood Mist
  • 1 Bomat Bazaar Barge
  • 1 Burner Rocket
  • 1 Carrion Cruiser
  • 1 Chance Encounter
  • 1 Cleaver Riot
  • 1 Compleated Huntmaster
  • 1 Costly Plunder
  • 1 Cybership
  • 1 Daredevil Dragster
  • 1 Daretti, Rocketeer Engineer
  • 1 Deathless Pilot
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Demolition Stomper
  • 1 Destructive Digger
  • 1 Dynamite Diver
  • 1 Enchanted Carriage
  • 1 Fire Nation Salvagers
  • 1 Fire Nation Warship
  • 1 Foul Roads
  • 1 Goblin Traprunner
  • 1 Guidelight Matrix
  • 1 High-Speed Hoverbike
  • 1 Honeymoon Hearse
  • 1 Luxurious Locomotive
  • 1 Marauding Dreadship
  • 1 Mechtitan Core
  • 1 Mighty Servant of Leuk-o
  • 1 Mizzium Tank
  • 1 Mobile Homestead
  • 1 Molten Birth
  • 1 Morbid Curiosity
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Mukotai Soulripper
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Okiba Reckoner Raid // Nezumi Road Captain
  • 1 Okiba Salvage
  • 1 Oni-Cult Anvil
  • 1 Ovalchase Daredevil
  • 1 Pactdoll Terror
  • 1 Phantom Train
  • 1 Powerstone Fracture
  • 1 Prompto Argentum
  • 1 Push the Limit
  • 1 Raiders' Karve
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Reckless Velocitaur
  • 1 Ribskiff
  • 1 Road Rage
  • 1 Rocky Roads
  • 1 Ruthless Knave
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Setzer, Wandering Gambler
  • 1 Skullport Merchant
  • 1 Sokenzan Smelter
  • 1 Sorcerer's Strongbox
  • 1 Speedway Fanatic
  • 1 Start Your Engines
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swarm Culler
  • 1 Tavern Scoundrel
  • 1 Tavern Swindler
  • 1 Tectonic Reformation
  • 1 The Gold Saucer