Rakdos the Muscle by CyNinja

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos big-mana cheat and reanimator strategy designed to deploy massive, game-ending creatures well ahead of curve. Commanded by Rakdos, the Muscle, the deck turns sacrifice costs and temporary sneak effects into massive card advantage by exiling deep into opposing libraries. The early game focuses on establishing 2-mana artifact acceleration and loading high-value threats into hand or graveyard. By Turn 4 or 5, enablers like Sneak Attack, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Through the Breach, and Goryo's Vengeance drop devastating monsters like Utvara Hellkite, Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Archfiend of Despair with haste. Sacrificing these creatures before they expire feeds the commander to provide a continuous stream of stolen spells. The deck wins by compounding evasive combat damage and brutal asymmetric life drain across two combat rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Despair
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstealer Dragon
• 1 Burning-Rune Demon
• 1 Burnt Offering
• 1 Cauldron Dance
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Charcoal Diamond
• 1 Coalition Relic
• 1 Coldsteel Heart
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1 Elder Brain
• 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
• 1 Exhume
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Footsteps of the Goryo
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Geothermal Bog
• 1 Goryo's Vengeance
• 1 Grave Titan
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hero's Downfall
• 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1 It That Betrays
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Lord of the Void
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Molten Primordial
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nether Traitor
• 1 Overseer of the Damned
• 1 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• 1 Quicksilver Amulet
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Joins Up
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
• 1 Raucous Theater
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sneak Attack
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Stinging Study
• 1 Sulfurous Mire
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Through the Breach
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Unexpected Windfall
• 1 Utvara Hellkite
• 1 Valakut Exploration
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Worn Powerstone
• 1 Zombify