Rakdos by TWT66

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a aggressive stompy engine built around Rakdos, Lord of Riots. The strategy focuses on deploying low-cost pingers and group-slug burn spells during the opening turns to satisfy the commander's casting restriction and unlock massive generic mana discounts. Once Rakdos is deployed on turn 4, subsequent combat damage and life-loss triggers reduce the costs of massive colorless Eldrazi titans and artifact creatures to near zero. Opponents face rapid pressure starting on turn 5 from high-power threats featuring Annihilator, Indestructible, and devastating on-cast triggers. The deck maintains card advantage through passive black enchantments and burst cast triggers like Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, quickly overwhelming defensive boards through sheer power and resource attrition. While vulnerable to well-timed removal on its commander, the deck's high density of interchangeable enablers and game-ending beaters provides consistent battlefield dominance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Breaker of Creation
  • 1 Brimstone Trebuchet
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Conduit of Ruin
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desolation Twin
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fervor
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lightning-Rig Crew
  • 1 Lobber Crew
  • 1 Mass Hysteria
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Sanctum of Stone Fangs
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawnbed Protector
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Unruly Catapult
  • 1 Vicious Conquistador
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood