Hide Your Doors, and Lock Your Children

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Casual Demons Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

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Creature (27)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Blood Speaker
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Goblin Fireslinger
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Hellcarver Demon
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Lightning-Rig Crew
• 1x Lobber Crew
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Obstinate Familiar
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Rakdos the Defiler
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Xathrid Demon

Instant (14)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Gut Shot
• 1x Hour of Glory
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Savage Beating
• 1x Shallow Grave

Land (37)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 13x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 18x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Temple of Malice

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Fervor
• 1x Greed
• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Lich
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Wound Reflection

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Bump in the Night
• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Pox
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Vandalblast

Artifact (3)

• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

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Creature (6)

• 1x Demon of Death's Gate
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Herald of Torment
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Pestilence Demon
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment (3)

• 1x In the Web of War
• 1x Strength of Lunacy
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Sanguimancy

Instant (3)

• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Spoils of the Vault
• 1x Supernatural Stamina

Land (1)

• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

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You might enjoy this deck if any of the following are true:

a) You care more about bringing some life to the game than winning

b) Your dream is to use Hellcarver Demon as the catalyst to multiple wincons

c) You've always wanted to use Lich for something

d) Your preferred game plan can be described as "all or nothing"

e) You like to have the ability to choose whether to win by combo, or straight damage

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You might not enjoy this deck if

a) You want to control the game

b) You don't enjoy casting "free" eldrazi.

c) You don't want brute force to win you the game.

d) Your playgroup is super competitive/cutthroat

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How this deck came to be

A love at 1st sight, soon forgotten, only to be remembered many years later. I don't know why it took me so long, but here I am building a silly, Rakdos, Lord of Riots demon-themed(?) deck. The idea is simple, simple is good, deal damage and cast fatties. Fortunately, most demons are already undercosted. Unfortunately, most don't play nice with each other, nor with your board. As with any commander with such clearly defined ability, I'm sure this deck will bear some similarities to others but so what? It's fun.

I am very open to suggestions, especially if they aren't just foodstuffs (or goodstuff, for that matter) . I'm certainly no expert in these two colours, so I don't know all the right synergies. If at all possible, I want the deck to be as flavourfully aligned as possible, while still being able to win reasonably well. For now, the land base is what it is, most lands that would go well in this deck are a little too $$$ for me. I get that improving the land base would help but for the time being, This is what I have.

As is fairly obvious, I suppose, I want to be dealing damage during my turn as consistently as possible. This means that cards that have evasion of some kind, be it fear or intimidate, or flying, etc. are important. Cards like Plague Spitter and Honden of Infinite Rage are also good because they deal straight damage with no further investment. There are a couple cards ( Heartless Hidetsugu and Master of the Feast for example) that work very nicely with the build of the deck. While Heartless Hidetsugu may not usually be cast the same turn as Rakdos, Lord of Riots , the fact that it halves everyone's health is excellent for pressuring others. Of course there are a cards like Kozilek, Butcher of Truth and Blightsteel Colossus which benefit immensely from Rakdos's cost reduction.

I don't really have much removal, or damage prevention, so I don't want to run global damage doubling effects because I could easily end up taking the worse of it.

Your most consistent win-con in this deck, that is to say the one that effectively guarantees victory, is Lich + Repay in Kind . You can achieve this fairly easily with Razaketh, the Foulblooded and at least 2 other creatures provided you've dealt 12 or more damage this turn, and have : Sacrifice the first creature to get Kozilek, Butcher of Truth , and loop him until you draw one of It That Betrays , Burnt Offering , Lich or Repay in Kind , from there use Kozilek to grab another piece, cast It That Betrays , sacrifice Rakdos, Lord of Riots and another creature to get the rest of the pieces if needed, use Burnt Offering on It That Betrays for 12 and cast Lich followed by Repay in Kind . You can also use Doomsday or Insidious Dreams to assemble your pieces.

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The Combos/Wincons

• Endless Combat ( Doomsday Combo): Hellcarver Demon + Relentless Assault + Obstinate Familiar + Kozilek, Buthcher of Truth + Mass Hysteria or Fervor Attack with the Hellcarver Demon , while casting the pieces, be sure to cast Obstinate Familiar in response to Kozilek, Butcher of Truth 's draw trigger. This will allow us not to deck ourselves with the empty library. Using the additional combat phase, swing with everything, making sure that Hellcarver connects. When you sacrifice your board as part of the Hellcarver Demon 's ability, Kozilek will shuffle all the pieces back into the library to be cast again. This will allow you to continue attacking until the board is no more.

• No life for anyone: Lich + Repay in Kind as described above, you can achieve this through a number of methods in this deck. It works as a Hellcarver Demon combo, it works when hard casting; it's the most reliable win.

• Board Theft: Casting Pox with It That Betrays will usually just end the game but if it doesn't, you should have an overwhelmingly powerful position.

• Scorched Earth ( Doomsday or Insidious Dreams Combo): Use Hellcarver Demon to cast Blightsteel Colossus , Kozilek, Butcher of Truth , Obstinate Familiar (If done via Doomsday ), It That Betrays and Decree of Annihilation . Make sure to order it so that Decree of Annihilation happens first. This ensures a successful combat. From there, just bludgeon the opponents with massive firepower.

• Basic Combat Damage: This deck has a lot of very large creatures with very powerful effects. Sometimes, no combo is needed, and you can just swing for the win.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WUG
Key combos	Lich + Repay in Kind
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.95
Tokens	Harpy 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH decks, EDH, In Circulation