Demons & Eldrazi Tag Team by MountainViper

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos, Lord of Riots stompy engine built to cheat colossal colorless Eldrazi and artifact behemoths into play well ahead of curve. The core operational plan relies on early incidental group-damage enablers (such as Spear Spewer, Thermo-Alchemist, and Flame Rift) to satisfy Rakdos's strict casting condition by Turn 3 or 4. Once Rakdos attacks or burns the table, life lost by opponents translates into massive double-digit generic mana cost reductions on creature spells. During the postcombat main phase of Turn 4, the deck floods the board with game-warping threats like Void Winnower, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, and Blightsteel Colossus for near-zero mana. Cast triggers bypass counterspells while Annihilator and Terror of the Peaks burn rapidly dismantle opposing life totals and boards across two attack rotations, closing the game decisively by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Conduit of Ruin
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Ugin
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Flayer of Loyalties
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nettle Drone
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sanctum of Ugin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Skittering Cicada
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger