HERE COME DOWN THE CLAWS by user2904364

Format: Commander

Commander: Raphael, Fiendish Savior

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Aristocrats and Burn deck led by Raphael, Fiendish Savior. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-cost sacrifice outlets and typal fodder during early turns, followed by casting Raphael to grant your Demon, Devil, Imp, and Tiefling creatures +1/+1 and lifelink while creating a 1/1 Devil token on each end step a creature enters your graveyard. With an established token engine, the deck accelerates table-wide damage using aristocrat pingers like Mayhem Devil, Mirkwood Bats, and Goblin Bombardment, compounded by life-loss multipliers such as Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Archfiend of Despair. Board control is reinforced through Grave Pact and flexible removal spells. The deck reliably achieves engine assembly by Turn 4, initiates critical pressure on Turn 6 with damage doublers or mass life-loss effects like Pox Plague, and closes out the table around Turn 8 across two response cycles while maintaining a high life buffer through Raphael's lifelink aura.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Dropper
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cadaver Imp
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Gibbering Fiend
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellrider
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hoard Robber
  • 1 Hobblefiend
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scourge of the Skyclaves
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Sin Prodder
  • 1 Skirsdag High Priest
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Spiteful Prankster
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Torch Fiend
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Wildfire Devils
  • 1 Witty Roastmaster
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
  • 1 Zurzoth, Chaos Rider