Rakdos Returns

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Combo Sacrifice

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Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Piranha Marsh
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x The Black Gate
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (18)

• 1x Agitator Ant
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Delina, Wild Mage
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Fumiko the Lowblood
• 1x Herald of Slaanesh
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x The Balrog of Moria
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Instant (12)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Bitter Triumph
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Glorious End
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Stinging Study
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Descent into Avernus
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Share the Spoils
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Beseech the Mirror
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Last Chance
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Spectacular Showdown
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Warrior's Oath
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

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Creature (11)

• 1x Balor
• 1x Blast-Furnace Hellkite
• 1x Blood Speaker
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Dream Devourer
• 1x Grim Hireling
• 1x Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Instant (1)

• 1x Tragic Slip

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Shiny Impetus
• 1x War's Toll

Artifact (7)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x General's Kabuto
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Nazgul Battle-Mace
• 1x Two-Handed Axe
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Land (2)

• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Smoldering Marsh

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Rakdos the Defiler! You may be asking yourself, "Why on earth would I use this terrible commander? Why run Rakdos the Defiler? BR isn't even great colors without a commander, you'd be better of with a Morophon, the Boundless and never casting it." Well, let me enlighten you to the joys of Kingmaking and other non-niceties.

Rakdos the Defiler is objectively terrible, but has one cool trick. If you don't care about winning, you can usually guarantee that someone specific will lose. That is, if you can hit them with a 7/6 Flying Trampler, most decks will have to sacrifice half of their permanents. These include lands, because Rakdos is old and WotC wasn't big on balance yet.

The real joy with Rakdos is a very Christmas-like thing however; the joy of giving. There's nothing more dangerous than a Rakdos the Defiler equipped with Assault Suit that just got goaded. It's absolutely the most fun you can have playing this game, watching the next player realize that this is gonna get ugly real quick. Of course, removal is an option, but sometimes players don't have it right now and are gonna have to got through the best/worst turn first.

In order to accomplish this, we need several things:

1. A Way to Give Rakdos to Someone Else
2. A Way to Force them to Attack with Rakdos And preferably;
3. A Way to Prevent them from Attacking Us

But that last one isn't even that important. That's why Bazaar Trader is in the deck, because I don't really care if Rakdos kills us too.

Of course, if you do the same thing every game, it becomes very obvious what you're gonna do and people can just plan to hold removal. This is good, more players need to hold removal, but it does make this deck a dumb idea. So, there are multiple ways to win with this deck.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 63 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Orc Army, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure
Folders	EDH, Rakdos idea deck