Rakdos Lifegain by ImUrNemesis

Format: Commander

Commander: Judith, Carnage Connoisseur

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos spellslinger control and burn strategy commanded by Judith, Carnage Connoisseur. The primary game plan revolves around casting Judith and immediately pairing her with ultra-cheap 1-mana red sweepers such as Blazing Volley, End the Festivities, and Tectonic Hazard. Judith grants these spells deathtouch and lifelink, transforming cheap damage spells into asymmetric board wipes that destroy every opposing creature while gaining massive life totals. The resulting creature attrition fuels explosive payoffs including Revel in Riches, Grave Betrayal, and Blood for the Blood God!. The deck converts this board dominance into victory through burst drain effects like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Bloodletter of Aclazotz, reanimation mass swings via Command the Dreadhorde, or an alternate win with Revel in Riches. Backed by free interaction like Deflecting Swat and resilient recursion like Kaya's Ghostform, the deck suffocates creature-based strategies while generating overwhelming card and life advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Armor of Shadows
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazing Volley
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Blood for the Blood God!
• 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boiling Earth
• 1 Boltwave
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Command the Dreadhorde
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1 Demand Answers
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Earthquake
• 1 Electrickery
• 1 End the Festivities
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Fire Covenant
• 1 Flame Rift
• 1 Grave Betrayal
• 1 Greed
• 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Iroh's Demonstration
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
• 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mizzium Mortars
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 10 Mountain
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Neheb, the Eternal
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Overmaster
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Revel in Riches
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Scouring Sands
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Smash to Dust
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 12 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tectonic Hazard
• 1 Treasonous Ogre
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Wail of the Nim