Rakdos Aristocats

Standard Aristocrats BR (Rakdos) Combo FNM

JGMartinez

Creature (25)

• 4x Cauldron Familiar
• 4x Dreadhorde Butcher
• 3x Fireblade Artist
• 4x Footlight Fiend
• 2x Judith, the Scourge Diva
• 4x Mayhem Devil
• 4x Priest of Forgotten Gods

Land (20)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 2x Castle Embereth
• 2x Castle Locthwain
• 4x Fabled Passage
• 3x Mountain
• 3x Swamp
• 2x Temple of Malice

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Light Up the Stage
• 3x Skewer the Critics

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Chandra, Acolyte of Flame

Artifact (4)

• 4x Witch's Oven

Instant (3)

• 3x Heartfire

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Sideboard

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Angrath's Rampage
• 2x Drill Bit
• 1x Duress

Instant (1)

• 1x Bedevil

Creature (5)

• 2x Midnight Reaper
• 3x Woe Strider

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Tibalt, Rakish Instigator

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Maybeboard

Creature (10)

• 2x God-Eternal Bontu
• 4x Gutterbones
• 2x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 2x Rankle, Master of Pranks

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Basically, everything sacrifices itself for additional effects. Aggro early on with one and two drops. Start getting sac triggers with Mayhem Devil, cat/oven, Judith, etc. Initially ran this build with 24 lands but found that I drew too many. At FNM so far I've had a better time running only 20-21 as my curve is low and I want to limit the number of lands I draw. In games against mid-range control, I've been able to develop board presence and do big damage early enough to win games quickly. With ideal draws, win by turn 6.

Sideboard includes some removal to better play against control without drastically changing the way the deck plays. Tibalt is sided in against life gain and also provides fodder for additional sac triggers.

Debating which bigger creature might be good to have against control such as Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger , God-Eternal Bontu or Cavalier of Night .

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Standard 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 6 Rares 19 - 8 Uncommons 11 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.05
Tokens	Devil 1/1 R, Elemental 1/1 R, Food, Goat 0/1 W