There Will Be Blood

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

Knuckleberry

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fell Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x High Market
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Peak  ^Flip
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage

Draw (5)

• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Azra Oddsmaker
• 1x Morbid Opportunist

Utility (5)

• 1x Magar of the Magic Strings
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Efreet Flamepainter
• 1x Liliana's Reaver

Manaboost (12)

• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Pip-Boy 3000
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Guild Artisan
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Shiny Impetus
• 1x Grim Hireling
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal

Sacrifice (9)

• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x Tribute to Horobi  ^Flip
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Stormclaw Rager
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Immersturm Predator

ETB Trigger (7)

• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1x Jaxis, the Troublemaker
• 1x Splinter Twin
• 1x Conjurer's Closet

Damage (4)

• 1x Visions of Brutality
• 1x Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Sower of Discord

Commander (1)

Return from Graveyard (11)

• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Undying Evil
• 1x Undying Malice
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Moira, Urborg Haunt
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Archpriest of Shadows

Enemy Abuse (6)

• 1x Hot Pursuit
• 1x Backlash
• 1x Delirium
• 1x Ritual of the Machine
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Insurrection

Removal (3)

• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Bedevil

Stop Attacking (2)

• 1x Labyrinth of Skophos
• 1x Maze of Ith

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Damage (11)

• 1x Dreadhorde Butcher
• 1x Hunted Horror
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Unstoppable Slasher
• 1x Virtus the Veiled
• 1x Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Wound Reflection
• 1x Phage the Untouchable
• 1x Ancient Stone Idol

Utility (6)

• 1x Rain of Gore
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Bothersome Quasit
• 1x Plague Drone
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x The Lord of Pain

Passive Damage (4)

• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• 1x Frenzied Saddlebrute
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm

Goad (2)

• 1x Komainu Battle Armor
• 1x Disrupt Decorum

Mass-Removal (2)

• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Blasphemous Act

Combo (8)

• 1x Scourge of the Skyclaves
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Peer into the Abyss

ETB Trigger (7)

• 1x Voyager Staff
• 1x Skull Collector
• 1x Delina, Wild Mage
• 1x Felhide Spiritbinder
• 1x Golden Argosy
• 1x Flamerush Rider
• 1x Rionya, Fire Dancer

Non-Budget (5)

• 1x Molten Duplication
• 1x Lifeline
• 1x Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Lord of the Void

Manaboost (2)

• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver

Removal (2)

• 1x Blood Frenzy *list*
• 1x Dreadbore

Sacrifice (8)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Voldaren Thrillseeker
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 1x Kethek, Crucible Goliath
• 1x Pyrrhic Blast
• 1x Thermopod

Return from Graveyeard (6)

• 1x Feign Death
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Not Dead After All
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Necromancy

Draw (5)

• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed

Enemy Abuse (2)

• 1x Furnace Reins
• 1x Grab the Reins

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"I have a competition in me. I want no-one else to succeed." — Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood

Disclaimer

My decks are non-competitive kitchen table EDH decks, which are designed to primarily play against 2 to 5 enemies. My playgroup is a bunch of mid-30s who want to meet, chill, drink and have fun at a Saturday night, so in general we don't play decks which are just frustrating for the opponents or practically exclude them from the game for the next 2 hours. We got some rules like no massive landhate or poison and we got a small internal banlist. Personally, I only build mid-budget decks. So no fancy cEDH stuff to be seen here. Sorry, not sorry. ;)

General Gameplan

In the early game in general you will be sitting at the table with a devilish smirk on your face, looking at your enemies killing each other because of constant goading while trying to pile up some mana. Because most of the time enemy creatures should be tapped since they had to attack, you can get some profit out of those creatures who trigger on dealing player damage or attacking. The difficult part is the endgame when the last man standing and therefore the strongest of your enemies is free to attack you. That's the part I try to optimize right now. ;P Lately in like 90% of the games I played this deck I ended up losing the heads-up. But this is a fun-project and I enjoy tinkering around with it. Feel free to give me some advise if you like but bear in mind that I explicitly don't want to push this deck in the Aristocrats direction. :)

Rules of Interest

In this section I try to collect interesting mechanics, weird interactions and cards that are often mistaken. If I got something wrong here, please feel free to correct me. It is supposed to work as a reminder for myself if needed and it might help other people who stumble across similar issues.

Kardur, Doomscourge:
Kardur's first ability affects all creatures your opponents control, including any that enter the battlefield after the ability resolves.
If a creature an opponent controls can't attack for some reason (such as being tapped or having come under its controller's control that turn), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so the creature doesn't have to attack in that case either.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Copy Clone, Gold, Plant 0/2 G, Rat Rogue 1/1 B, Survivor 1/1 R, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Paper Decks