RAKDOS B3 by user4786856

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Aristocrats and theft-attrition engine commanded by Rakdos, the Muscle. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-cost sacrifice fodder and mana rocks during the early turns, establishing Rakdos on Turn 4 to convert creature deaths into card advantage from opponents' libraries. On Turn 5, the deck reaches critical onset by deploying oppressive attrition pieces like Grave Pact and Mindslicer, or aristocrat drain engines like Bastion of Remembrance and Mayhem Devil. By sacrificing creatures repeatedly, you strip opponents of their boards and hands while playing their best spells with any mana type. Graveyard recursion through Chthonian Nightmare, Victimize, and Cavalier of Night sustains your fuel loop. The game concludes around Turn 7 as table-wide drain from Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Bastion of Remembrance combines with evasive combat damage from Rakdos (6/5 flying, trample) and Dargo, the Shipwrecker to eliminate all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Claim the Firstborn
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Generator Servant
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loki's Scepter
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Rob the Archives
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 _____ Goblin