Rakdos Storm by Dargarius

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is a fast, aggressive Rakdos aristocrats and combo engine led by Rakdos, the Muscle. It leverages dense ritual acceleration and low-cost mana rocks to cast its commander ahead of curve, turning sacrifice outlets into impulsive card advantage from opponents' libraries. The primary win condition revolves around a deterministic loop with Warren Soultrader and Forsaken Miner: sacrificing the Miner to generate a Treasure triggers Rakdos's exile ability, which commits a crime and immediately returns the Miner to the battlefield using that Treasure. This loop generates infinite storm, infinite death triggers, and exiles every opponent's library. Redundant payoffs like Blood Artist, Mayhem Devil, and Tendrils of Agony convert the loop into immediate lethal damage. Graveyard recursion tools such as Underworld Breach, Chthonian Nightmare, and Reanimate give the deck strong resilience and allow it to win even without casting its commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bog Initiate
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mortuary
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Offalsnout
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Reckless Handling
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman