RAKDOS DA MUSCLE by user3945426

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rakdos, the Muscle is a sacrifice-value deck that turns every dead creature into exiled cards from opponents' libraries, then casts those cards with any mana. The primary plan is to build cheap fodder, sacrifice it to Rakdos for card advantage, and convert that advantage into an aristocrat drain. Secondary paths are the Ashnod's Altar + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton loop with Blood Artist, and Doomsday Excruciator plus Rakdos to empty libraries. The commander is the engine; it is single-faced and there is no hidden commander. Large demons and stolen creatures provide a beatdown backup.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Author of Shadows
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodflow Connoisseur
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doomed Dissenter
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dreadfeast Demon
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hobblefiend
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Live or Die
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise Again
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat