Thieving Rakdos by Tyr

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle is a sacrifice-theft midrange deck that turns every creature sacrifice into card advantage by exiling opponents' libraries and casting their spells with any mana. The primary plan is to establish fodder and sacrifice outlets, cast Rakdos on turn 5, then grind value while pressuring with a 6/5 flying trampler. Secondary paths include aristocrats drain with Judith, token armies from War Effort and Rite of the Dragoncaller, and big swings from Heartless Hidetsugu or Rise of the Dark Realms. Syr Carah, the Bold acts as a hidden commander, providing impulse draw whenever your burn connects. No infinite combos exist; wins come from incremental combat, burn, and stolen cards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Bloodfeather Phoenix
  • 1 Bond of Passion
  • 1 Captain Ripley Vance
  • 1 Chandra, Flameshaper
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Coalstoke Gearhulk
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Demolish
  • 1 Desert Cerodon
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dust Stalker
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Fear, Fire, Foes!
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flayer Drone
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Forlorn Pseudamma
  • 1 Goblin Arsonist
  • 1 Goddric, Cloaked Reveler
  • 1 Gornog, the Red Reaper
  • 1 Heartfire
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hoarding Dragon
  • 1 Impossible Inferno
  • 1 Instill Infection
  • 1 Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Lightning Spear
  • 1 Lovisa Coldeyes
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Meteorite
  • 1 Mishra, Excavation Prodigy
  • 19 Mountain
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Quest for the Necropolis
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Raze to the Ground
  • 1 Reduce to Ashes
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Scorching Dragonfire
  • 1 Seer's Lantern
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spit Flame
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Carah, the Bold
  • 1 Tavern Swindler
  • 1 The Elderspell
  • 1 Thraxodemon
  • 1 Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate
  • 1 Tower of Calamities
  • 1 Twin Bolt
  • 1 Unleash Shell
  • 1 Vessel of Endless Rest
  • 1 War Effort
  • 1 Writhing Necromass
  • 1 Yargle, Glutton of Urborg
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Agenda