Rakdos, Lord of Big Free Stuff by CHRONICx14

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck focuses on Rakdos, Lord of Riots to convert early life loss into massive mana discounts for colorless behemoths and high-damage payoffs. During the early turns, cheap pingers and enchantments consistently trigger opponent life loss to satisfy Rakdos's casting condition. Once Rakdos enters the battlefield and connects in combat, the resulting mana discount lets you deploy game-ending Eldrazi titans such as Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, and Blightsteel Colossus for little to no mana. Continuous burn effects from cards like Terror of the Peaks and Pandemonium turn every massive creature into immediate direct damage, creating explosive chains that eliminate opponents in rapid succession. The deck excels at translating combat and burn momentum into crushing board presence, overwhelming the table before opponents can stabilize.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exocrine
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Mogis
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fireglass Mentor
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Generous Plunderer
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Kozilek, the Broken Reality
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Hex
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
  • 1 Pandemonium
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Plague Spitter
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Protection Racket
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Sanctum of Stone Fangs
  • 1 Sandstone Oracle
  • 1 Screamer-Killer
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Sin Prodder
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tuktuk Rubblefort
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune