New Improved Cedh rakdos by miklife1

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an explosive Rakdos combo deck that feeds on sacrifice triggers. The primary engine is Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar/Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist/Mayhem Devil for infinite drain loops. A secondary line uses Underworld Breach, Lion's Eye Diamond, and Wheel of Fortune to generate infinite mana and recast spells from the graveyard. The commander, Rakdos, the Muscle, serves as a value engine that converts each sacrifice into exiled cards you can play, while its activated ability provides temporary protection. Fast rituals (Dark Ritual, Cabal Ritual, Culling the Weak) and a low average mana value enable explosive starts, often winning by turn 5. The deck packs ample tutors (Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Imperial Seal, Gamble, Diabolic Intent) and recursion (Reanimate, Underworld Breach, Chthonian Nightmare) to enact its game plan despite disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 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 Evendo Brushrazer
  • 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 Into the Pit
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Offalsnout
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Popular Egotist
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 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 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune