Heavy Sack by TonsOfFun1987

Format: Commander

Commander: Akul the Unrepentant

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos aristocrats-midrange deck helmed by Akul the Unrepentant. The plan is to flood the board with disposable tokens from engines like Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder, then sacrifice three creatures to Akul's once-per-turn activated ability and cheat expensive haymakers-Archon of Cruelty, Terror of the Peaks, Valgavoth, Terror Eater, and the Eldrazi suite-directly into play. Parallel win paths are classic death-trigger drains (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Mayhem Devil) and ETB-damage multipliers (Impact Tremors, Warstorm Surge, Terror of the Peaks). Reanimation (Reanimate, Victimize, Dread Return, Lich-Knights' Conquest, Sheoldred, Whispering One) recovers both fodder and finishers. There are no infinite combo lines; the deck wins through attrition, combat, and incremental life loss in the mid-to-late game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akul the Unrepentant
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dwarven Mine
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orca, Siege Demon
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Pyretic Rebirth
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Szat's Will
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat