Rakdos Gladiators by user4812628

Format: Commander

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos goad/gladiator shell built around Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant. The primary plan is to point every opponent's creature at someone else and profit from the chaos: Karazikar draws two cards whenever two opponents fight, while goad enchantments, curses, and forced-attackers keep boards attacking away from you. The secondary plan is damage reflection, using Repercussion with Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, or Star of Extinction to turn a board wipe into lethal life loss. A small beats package, extra-combat cards, and damage doublers let Karazikar close out with commander damage. Ares, God of War and Whip of Erebos provide recursion, and cheap evasive creatures keep pressure on.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Ares, God of War
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
  • 1 Balefang the Unslayable
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bothersome Quasit
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coalhauler Swine
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dolmen Gate
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Emberwilde Captain
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Fumiko the Lowblood
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mogg Maniac
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Puppet Master, String Puller
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Sifa Grent
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacular Showdown
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Total War
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vengeful Ancestor
  • 1 Wall of Souls
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent