RAKDOS DA MUSCLE by user3945426

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle leads a sacrifice-value deck that turns its own fodder into fuel. The primary plan uses cheap recursive creatures and token makers to feed Rakdos's exile trigger, generating a torrent of castable spells from opponents' libraries. Secondary paths include an escalating demon board via Dreadfeast Demon and big swing turns with Etali, Primal Storm and Ancient Copper Dragon. A slow drain package (Blood Artist, Mayhem Devil, Goblin Bombardment) bleeds life while the board develops. There is no hidden commander; every legend in the 99 plays a support role. The deck is commander-dependent for card advantage but can grind via Gonti, Jaxis, and Phyrexian Reclamation if Rakdos gets removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Author of Shadows
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Deathbringer Regent
  • 1 Defiler of Flesh
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dreadfeast Demon
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hobblefiend
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Live or Die
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reno and Rude
  • 1 Rise Again
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torch Courier
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog