Rakdos by user7650382

Format: Commander

Commander: Rakdos, the Muscle

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos aristocrats combo and storm deck commanded by Rakdos, the Muscle. It leverages an aggressive suite of black and red rituals, sacrifice outlets, and recurring creature fodder to generate overwhelming card velocity and assemble lethal sacrifice loops by Turn 4. The deck utilizes Forsaken Miner alongside Phyrexian Altar or Warren Soultrader to trigger infinite crimes, allowing Rakdos, the Muscle to exile all opposing libraries or enabling Mayhem Devil and Blood Artist to drain the entire table in a single turn. Backup lines through Underworld Breach, Bolas's Citadel, and Hoarding Broodlord provide exceptional redundancy, while cheap reanimation spells ensure immediate recovery against single-target interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dargo, the Shipwrecker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Death-Rattle Oni
  • 1 Diamond Lion
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Offalsnout
  • 1 Ominous Harvest
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Skittering Precursor
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician