New Untitled Deck by browningMTG

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Stompy strategy commanded by Rakdos, Lord of Riots, designed to convert early life loss into massive creature discounts for colossal Eldrazi and Demon threats. The primary game plan utilizes cheap burn spells, evasive attackers, or passive pingers to satisfy Rakdos's casting restriction by Turn 4. Once Rakdos attacks on Turn 5, it generates at least six generic mana discount, allowing the pilot to cast game-altering titans like Sire of Seven Deaths, Artisan of Kozilek, or Archfiend of Despair for negligible mana. The deck can close games across two subsequent combat rounds by chaining annihilator triggers, doubled damage, and cast triggers from titans like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. Additionally, it houses an incidental two-card infinite combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Marauding Blight-Priest that drains the table upon any life gain or loss.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aphotic Wisps
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Blood Beckoning
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Curse-Marred Demon
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Gifts
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Earthquake
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Endbringer
  • 1 Farbog Revenant
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forerunner of Slaughter
  • 1 Forum Necroscribe
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hideous Taskmaster
  • 1 Impolite Entrance
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Key to the Side-Door
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Letter of Acceptance
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Manalith
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Masterful Flourish
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Professor's Warning
  • 1 Prophetic Prism
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seismic Shift
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Smash to Smithereens
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Searchlight
  • 1 Stinging Vitriol
  • 1 Super Speed
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Terror
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Transgress the Mind
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Withercrown