rakdos the mooscless budget edition by user5315810

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos aristocrats and theft engine helmed by Rakdos, the Muscle. The primary strategy focuses on temporarily stealing opposing creatures with low-cost Threaten spells—such as Kari Zev's Expertise, Furnace Reins, and Act of Aggression—or deploying high-mana-value evoke and recursive creatures like Shriekmaw and Nine-Lives Familiar, then sacrificing them to trigger the commander. Rakdos exiles cards from opposing libraries equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value, granting immediate, colored-fixing access to play those spells while shielding Rakdos with indestructible. Secondary engines like Prosper, Tome-Bound, Laughing Jasper Flint, and Brainstealer Dragon compound this advantage by turning stolen spells into Treasure acceleration and direct life drain. The deck overwhelms opponents by stripping their key threats, casting their best cards against them, and closing through large flying combat damage alongside asymmetric drain from Meathook Massacre II and Brainstealer Dragon.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Act of Aggression
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bloody Betrayal
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coffin Queen
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Lord Ozai
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furnace Reins
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Harness by Force
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Helm of Possession
  • 1 Huskburster Swarm
  • 1 Illuminor Szeras
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Jabs, Mistress of Mockery
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kari Zev's Expertise
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kethek, Crucible Goliath
  • 1 Kingpin, Wilson Fisk
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Loki's Scepter
  • 1 Lucius the Eternal
  • 1 Mark of Mutiny
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ozox, the Clattering King
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Song-Mad Treachery // Song-Mad Ruins
  • 1 Spitebellows
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Take for a Ride
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Beast, Deathless Prince
  • 1 The Cruelty of Gix
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Traitorous Greed
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vengeful Possession
  • 1 Withering Torment