Demon Tribal by user1661210

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a high-power Demon tribal list that uses Rakdos, Lord of Riots as a cost-reduction engine. Cheap pings such as Spear Spewer satisfy his cast restriction, then his discount turns 6-9 mana Demons into free spells the turn he connects. The battlefield plan is a swarm of flying tramplers-Bloodthirster, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Vilis, Broker of Blood, Valgavoth, Terror Eater-backed by life-loss multipliers in Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Archfiend of Despair. A separate combo finish lives entirely in the 99: Sensei's Divining Top plus Bolas's Citadel draws the library, and Aetherflux Reservoir lasers the table. Rakdos is a powerful accelerator, not a required engine; Herald of Slaanesh, Urza's Incubator, and Herald's Horn already discount the tribe, and the Citadel line never uses him. Recasting him still demands that an opponent lost life this turn, so the ping package is structural.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Ares, God of War
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dream Devourer
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Rakdos, the Showstopper
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 1 Spawn of Mayhem
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Withering Torment