Rakdoes by Mychro

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Rakdos stompy and reanimator engine designed to cheat massive creatures ahead of curve. The primary game plan relies on deploying low-cost pingers or burn spells on turns 1 to 3 to satisfy Rakdos, Lord of Riots's casting requirement on turn 4. Once Rakdos attacks on turn 5, the resulting life loss generates massive generic mana discounts, allowing the pilot to cast game-ending threats like Terror of the Peaks, Archon of Cruelty, and Vilis, Broker of Blood for minimal colored mana. Direct damage triggers and evasive flyers eliminate one player immediately and close out the remaining opponents by turn 6. If the commander is removed, an independent reanimation package featuring Entomb, Reanimate, and Sneak Attack ensures continuous threat deployment. Backed by free interaction and efficient board wipes, the deck combines immense board pressure with explosive closing velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Anger
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Boltwave
• 1 Brainstealer Dragon
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Combustible Gearhulk
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hoarding Broodlord
• 1 Insatiable Avarice
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Magmatic Force
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mount Doom
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Protection Racket
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sneak Attack
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stormfist Crusader
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 14 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 Thermo-Alchemist
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
• 1 Volrath's Stronghold
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Whip of Erebos