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Commander / EDH Aggro BR (Rakdos) Budget Burn

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Burn (34)

• 1x Carnage Gladiator
• 1x Chain Lightning
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Foul-Tongue Shriek
• 1x Grave Consequences
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Ill-Gotten Inheritance
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Lobber Crew
• 1x Loyal Subordinate
• 1x Nettle Drone
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Sarkhan's Unsealing
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Sizzle
• 1x Slagstorm
• 1x Spear Spewer
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Thunderous Wrath
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Tyrant's Choice
• 1x Virtus the Veiled
• 1x Warstorm Surge

Land (36)

• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 17x Mountain
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 17x Swamp

Haste (3)

• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Lightning Mauler
• 1x Ogre Battledriver

Other (1)

• 1x Dead Revels

Control (19)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Dystopia
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Grave Consequences
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Honden of Night's Reach
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Nullstone Gargoyle
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Ryusei, the Falling Star
• 1x Sarkhan's Unsealing
• 1x Slagstorm
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Tyrant's Choice
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher
• 1x Virtus the Veiled

Turn 4 Rakdos (12)

• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Lobber Crew
• 1x Nettle Drone
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Spear Spewer
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Virtus the Veiled

Special (8)

• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Flamerush Rider
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Sarkhan's Unsealing
• 1x Warstorm Surge

ManaRock (1)

• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip

Protection (1)

• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia

Commander (1)

Beater (18)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cryptborn Horror
• 1x Desolation Twin
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Endless One
• 1x Flamerush Rider
• 1x Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Nullstone Gargoyle
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Ryusei, the Falling Star
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher

Draw (11)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Staff of Nin

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Beater (11)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Darksteel Colossus
• 1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Staple (2)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Haste (1)

• 1x Lightning Greaves

ManaRock (1)

• 1x Sol Ring

Special (8)

• 1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Burn (3)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Sword of War and Peace

Draw (1)

• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Land (1)

• 1x Eldrazi Temple

Control (6)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Void Winnower

Other (4)

• 1x False Cure
• 1x Light Up the Stage
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Spawn of Mayhem

Protection (3)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of War and Peace

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Deck should cost about $50. Players lose a bit of life every turn and you take advantage. More players is more gas. This deck isn't very nice to friendly players. It's designed for a fast and dirty win. Table politics will dictate you as the most immediate threat. Win fast or lose hard.

I believe this deck is as powerful as it gets at this price point.

Dumping cash into expensive colorless creatures and creature protection takes it to another level.

Needs more draw power since creature spells pull from hand advantage.

Add your own staples. Add your own wipes and accelerants. Creatures are preferred.

Weaknesses: Complete nonland board wipes, countering Rakdos, removing Rakdos

NOTES: As far as I can understand, reducing a player to 0 life doesn't remove the information of life lost. So reducing an opponent from 10 to 0 will remain as 10 life lost by that opponent even though they left the game. However, the ruling seems weird and seems to say that the info (of 10 life lost in this example) will remain "10" on each of your turns. However this seems weird and I don't play that under the assumption that the life lost on your turn to them is 10 but to you is 0 after that initial turn is over. (800.4h If an effect requires information about a specific player, the effect uses the current information about that player if he or she is still in the game; otherwise, the effect uses the last known information about that player before he or she left the game.)

Each of N opponents losing 1 life each counts as N life lost to Rakdos.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.19
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C
Folders	Finished