Half Life by Somethin_Lse

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a aggressive Rakdos burn and stompy strategy led by Rakdos, Lord of Riots. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost, repeatable life-loss enablers like Spear Spewer and Creeping Bloodsucker on the first two turns, enabling an early Turn 3 casting of Rakdos. Once Rakdos attacks on Turn 4, the massive colorless mana discount allows the pilot to dump massive demons, card advantage engines, and damage doublers onto the battlefield for minimal colored mana. The primary win condition combines Heartless Hidetsugu with damage doublers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, or Archfiend of Despair to reduce opponents from full health to zero in a single stroke. Strong reanimation packages and free commander interaction provide solid resilience and defense.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor // Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Quest for Pure Flame
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sin Prodder
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spawn of Mayhem
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Temporal Extortion
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wound Reflection