Rakdos, Lord of Riots by Meister69

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck executes an aggressive Rakdos strategy centered on Rakdos, Lord of Riots. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost pingers such as Spear Spewer, Thermo-Alchemist, and Lobber Crew during the first three turns to satisfy Rakdos's life-loss casting requirement on Turn 4. Once Rakdos is active, combat damage and multi-opponent burn provide massive generic mana discounts, enabling explosive deployments of colossal creatures like Artisan of Kozilek, Combustible Gearhulk, and Sandstone Oracle on Turn 5. The deck backs up this combat pressure with asymmetric attrition pieces including Sire of Insanity and Archfiend of Depravity to strip resources from opponents. Supported by solid spot removal in Bedevil, Terminate, and Feed the Swarm, the deck aims to overwhelm the table by Turn 7. Its primary vulnerabilities are a reliance on keeping Rakdos on the battlefield and a lack of dedicated protection spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bladebrand
  • 1 Blood Speaker
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Brimstone Trebuchet
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Cryptborn Horror
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Desecration Demon
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Annihilation
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Gravedig
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Lightning-Rig Crew
  • 1 Lobber Crew
  • 1 Morlun, Devourer of Spiders
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Palace Siege
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Pestilence Demon
  • 1 Rakdos Cluestone
  • 1 Rakdos Joins Up
  • 1 Rakdos Keyrune
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Sandstone Oracle
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Sin Prodder
  • 1 Sire of Insanity
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawn of Mayhem
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Succumb to Temptation
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Unlicensed Disintegration
  • 1 Unruly Catapult
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Zero Point Ballad