Rakdos, Big Monsters by OgKoala

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a high-impact Rakdos stompy strategy engineered to cheat massive creatures into play ahead of curve using Rakdos, Lord of Riots. The game plan opens by establishing cheap group-slug enablers like Thermo-Alchemist, Lobber Crew, and Stormfist Crusader on Turns 1–3 to reliably satisfy Rakdos's life-loss casting condition on Turn 4. Once Rakdos attacks on Turn 5, the resulting life loss provides explosive colorless mana discounts, allowing you to deploy game-ending threats such as Archfiend of Despair, Blightsteel Colossus, Bloodthirster, and Warstorm Surge in your post-combat main phase. Burst draw engines like Knollspine Dragon ensure your hand remains refueled. The deck wins by taking multiple combat steps with Bloodthirster or doubling life loss with Archfiend of Despair on Turn 6. While extremely explosive, the deck relies heavily on commander uptime and creature combat, making it vulnerable to well-timed creature removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Cryptborn Horror
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Giantfall
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Iron Giant
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Lobber Crew
  • 1 Loyal Subordinate
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Orca, Siege Demon
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Palace Siege
  • 1 Platinum Emperion
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Keyrune
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullcrack
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Tragedy Feaster
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Warstorm Surge