2. Rakdos - Descend by PodGames

Format: Commander

Creator: PodGames

Commander: Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group-attrition and aristocrats strategy commanded by Zoyowa Lava-Tongue. The primary game plan focuses on generating repeatable descend triggers each turn by sacrificing self-recurring creatures like Bloodghast, Reassembling Skeleton, and Nether Traitor. These sacrifices trigger Zoyowa's end-step ability, steadily whittling away opponents' life totals, hands, and battlefield permanents. The deck compounds this attrition through powerful symmetrical sacrifice engines such as Braids, Arisen Nightmare, Rankle, Master of Pranks, and Grave Pact. The mid-game transitions into a dominant lock state using Tergrid, God of Fright or Sheoldred, stealing discarded cards and sacrificed permanents to turn opposing resources against the table. While the deck lacks fast combo finishes and stack protection, its dense suite of reanimation, card draw, and redundant edict creatures ensures relentless pressure and strong recovery against board wipes.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grixis Panorama
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Jund Panorama
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Naya Panorama
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Osseous Sticktwister
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rakdos Cluestone
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tectonic Reformation
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zoyowa Lava-Tongue