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Rakdos, Lord's Downward Spiral

Commander / EDH Aggro BR (Rakdos) Demons Eldrazi

jpermar


Welcome to clan Rakdos! This deck is all about dropping your hand full of huge fatties into play and swinging for the fences. It's aggressive, reckless, and fun as hell! A sub-theme of the deck is "The Downward Spiral" of life totals, and the inspiration for the name is the NIN album The Downward Spiral.

You'll like this deck if:

  • You love throwing down a ton of huge creatures all on the same turn for "free"
  • You like to party!
  • You're excited that you can "introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos" --The Joker
  • You enjoy being the villain
  • You like the thrill of an all-in strategy. Go big or go home!
  • You want to play a fast game
  • You want to play a fair (non-infinite) combo deck

You won't like this deck if:

  • You like rules (Ghostly Prison), saying no (Counterspell), and planting trees (Kodama's Reach)
  • You don't want to be a threat to other players
  • You don't like combat
  • You need a plan B when your commander is focus fired

I use Adam Styborski's philosophy of active mitigation to design this deck. The main goal of the deck is to make sure that everyone's life total spirals downward to make exciting and memorable games of Commander. It plays aggressively and recklessly as a fair (non-infinite) combo deck. I've organized the cards into categories to describe how the deck implements this philosophy. The core of the deck is two categories of cards: 1) Rakdos, Lord of Riots enablers (ways to make your opponents lose life so you can cast your commander) and 2) payoffs (huge fatties you can cast cheaply or for free, typically after you hit someone with your commander).

The PlayEDH mentors rated this deck at "mid power" per the PlayEDH discord deck guidelines

Note that the "effective CMC" of this deck is (much) lower than the listed average CMC, due to Rakdos's ability.

I'm always open to suggestions on how to improve the deck. If you comment, I would love it if you would suggest cards to take out for the cards you recommend.

Embrace the chaos and bring the pain!

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

15 - 0 Mythic Rares

35 - 0 Rares

13 - 0 Uncommons

20 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.78
Tokens Faerie Rogue 1/1 B
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