Rakdos, friend of the tentacles by w1zardbeard

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck leverages Rakdos, Lord of Riots as a high-powered cost-reduction engine to deploy massive colorless Eldrazi threats ahead of curve. The strategy opens by using low-cost pingers such as Creeping Bloodsucker, Nettle Drone, and cheap burn spells to satisfy the commander's cast restriction. Once deployed on Turn 4, Rakdos converts combat damage and group life loss into massive generic mana discounts, allowing players to cast heavy hitters like Sire of Seven Deaths, Breaker of Armies, and It That Betrays for negligible mana costs. Colorless value pieces like Forsaken Monument, Echoes of Eternity, and Glaring Fleshraker amplify these creature casts with token production, stat buffs, and spell copying. While the list generates overwhelming combat pressure and heavy attrition via Annihilator, it relies entirely on natural draws due to an absence of tutors, and it carries noticeable vulnerability to board wipes and targeted removal due to minimal protection spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Basilica Screecher
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Bloodgift Demon
• 1 Breaker of Armies
• 1 Burst Lightning
• 1 Cascading Cataracts
• 1 Cinder Barrens
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Cone of Flame
• 1 Cosmic Cube
• 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
• 1 Drossclaw
• 1 Echoes of Eternity
• 1 Eldrazi Confluence
• 1 Eldrazi Conscription
• 1 Eldrazi Devastator
• 1 Eldrazi Ravager
• 1 Eldrazi Temple
• 1 Endbringer
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 1 Flayer of Loyalties
• 1 Forsaken Monument
• 1 Glaring Fleshraker
• 1 Goblin-town
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Idol of False Gods
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Incendiary Flow
• 1 It That Betrays
• 1 It That Heralds the End
• 1 Kozilek's Pathfinder
• 1 Kozilek's Translator
• 1 Kyren Sniper
• 1 Mind Stone
• 14 Mountain
• 1 Nettle Drone
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Plague Spitter
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Rakdos Guildgate
• 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
• 1 Ruin Processor
• 1 Sabotender
• 1 Scrawling Crawler
• 1 Shock
• 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1 Silent Skimmer
• 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1 Skittering Invasion
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sovereign's Bite
• 1 Spawnbed Protector
• 1 Spawnsire of Ulamog
• 1 Spitfire Lagac
• 11 Swamp
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
• 1 Titan's Presence
• 1 Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Tunneling Geopede
• 1 Twins of Discord
• 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
• 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
• 1 Unknown Shores
• 1 Urza's Mine
• 1 Urza's Power Plant
• 1 Urza's Tower
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Warden of Geometries
• 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus