RTM Sac / Theft by user2029653

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle is a sacrifice-trigger engine that exiles cards from opponents' libraries and casts them with rainbow mana. The primary plan is a compact, commander-optional loop: Forsaken Miner plus Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER and a colored-mana sacrifice outlet (Phyrexian Altar or Warren Soultrader) creates infinite death triggers and life drain. Secondary paths are Rakdos's impulse-card advantage with hasty stolen threats, plus aristocrat drain from Marionette Apprentice and The Meathook Massacre. There is no hidden second commander; Dargo's partner text is not used. The commander's role is value and threat generation, while the combo line is the main finisher. Graveyard recursion and ritual mana smooth the assembly, and tutors find whichever combo piece is missing.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Greater Gargadon
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hideous Taskmaster
  • 1 Illuminor Szeras
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  • 1 Loki's Scepter
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Molten Primordial
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Offalsnout
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Beast, Deathless Prince
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts
  • 1 _____ Goblin