Potential Cedh rakdos by miklife1

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle is a fast sacrifice-combo deck that turns cheap recursive creatures and death triggers into a table kill. The primary plan is to accelerate with rituals and fast mana, then assemble a sacrifice loop-Phyrexian Altar or Warren Soultrader with Forsaken Miner or Gravecrawler plus a drain such as Mayhem Devil, Popular Egotist, or Sephiroth-to drain all opponents. Rakdos acts as a card-advantage engine and backup finisher: each sacrifice exiles cards from an opponent and lets you cast them, while its activated ability protects it. Sephiroth is the hidden transform payoff, converting the same death triggers into an emblem and card draw.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goldhound
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Offalsnout
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Patron of the Arts
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Popular Egotist
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Spider-Punk
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Thunderscape Familiar
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader