Rakdos

Format: Commander

Commander: Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos spellslinger and group-slug strategy helmed by Kuja, Genome Sorcerer. The game plan focuses on deploying Kuja and cheap spell-damage creatures like Guttersnipe, Coruscation Mage, and Electrostatic Field. Kuja generates 0/1 Wizard tokens on your end step that ping each opponent whenever you cast a noncreature spell. Once you control four Wizards, Kuja transforms into Trance Kuja, Fate Defied, doubling all Wizard damage. The deck leverages efficient removal, cantrips, and damage amplifiers such as Tor Wauki the Younger, Artist's Talent, and Collective Inferno to burn down all three opponents simultaneously. With Storm-Kiln Artist providing mana velocity and Past in Flames enabling explosive graveyard turns, the deck consistently sets up critical pressure by Turn 6 and closes out the table on Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Angrath's Rampage
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Artist's Talent
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Black Mage's Rod
• 1 Black Waltz No. 3
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boltwave
• 1 Carnival // Carnage
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Collective Inferno
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cornered by Black Mages
• 1 Coruscation Mage
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Demand Answers
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreadbore
• 1 Drossforge Bridge
• 1 Electrostatic Field
• 1 Erebor Flamesmith
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fiendish Duo
• 1 Fiery Confluence
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 1 Flick a Coin
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gratuitous Violence
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Hero's Downfall
• 1 Immersturm Skullcairn
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Kolaghan's Command
• 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
• 1 Light Up the Stage
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
• 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 10 Mountain
• 1 Mysidian Elder
• 1 Not Dead After All
• 1 Oversold Cemetery
• 1 Painful Quandary
• 1 Past in Flames
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rakdos's Return
• 1 Rankle and Torbran
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Stormsplitter
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Fire Crystal
• 1 Thermo-Alchemist
• 1 Tor Wauki the Younger
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Twinferno
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Vindictive Lich
• 1 Wild Magic Surge
• 1 Wizard's Lightning