LORD OF RIOTS real deck by user3945426

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Rakdos, Lord of Riots deck is a high-impact Rakdos burn-into-cheat strategy. The primary plan is to deploy early pingers that force life loss each turn, enabling Rakdos to be cast and then turn every opponent's lost life into massive cost reduction. Once Rakdos is online, the deck drops enormous Eldrazi and demons for a fraction of their mana cost, overwhelming the table through combat. A secondary, more explosive win condition uses Grinning Ignus, Ancestral Statue, and Warstorm Surge to generate infinite damage. The deck also includes a handful of stack interaction and board-level effects to protect its turn, but its power comes from the sheer tempo advantage of playing 10-mana threats on turn 5 or 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Ruin
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defiler of Instinct
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Devilish Valet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 FAS-BOR7 Horus
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grinning Ignus
  • 1 Havoc Festival
  • 1 Hoarder's Greed
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Quicksilver Amulet
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rowan, Scion of War
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 S.H.I.E.L.D. Spy Satellite
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Vicious Conquistador
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune