Can I haz Demons?

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

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Creature (37)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Abyssal Persecutor
• 1x Archdemon of Paliano
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Blood Speaker
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Demon of Death's Gate
• 1x Demon of Wailing Agonies
• 1x Demonlord Belzenlok
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Dread Cacodemon
• 1x Griselbrand
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Herald of Anguish
• 1x Herald of Torment
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Manaforge Cinder
• 1x Mardu Shadowspear
• 1x Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis
• 1x Night Market Lookout
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Pestilence Demon
• 1x Rakdos, the Showstopper
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Treacherous Pit-Dweller

Land (37)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 1x Reign of the Pit

Commander (1)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Lim-Dul's Hex
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Recurring Nightmare
• 1x Rite of Belzenlok
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x The Eldest Reborn

Artifact (8)

• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Helm of Possession
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (2)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

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Sideboard

Creature (19)

• 1x Abyssal Persecutor
• 1x Aurora of Emrakul  ^Flip
• 1x Azra Oddsmaker
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Defiler of Souls
• 1x Geode Golem
• 1x Grinning Demon
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Moriok Replica
• 1x Priest of the Blood Rite
• 1x Shadowborn Demon
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Skirsdag High Priest
• 1x Tombstalker
• 1x Vithian Stinger
• 1x Vulshok Sorcerer
• 1x Woebringer Demon

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Inner Demon
• 1x Mark of the Oni
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Sarkhan's Unsealing

Artifact (3)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Demonspine Whip
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Land (2)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Scalding Tarn

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Hellfire
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (3)

• 1x Infernal Reckoning
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Terminate

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Maybeboard

Creature (34)

• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 1x Cabal Paladin
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Demon of Catastrophes
• 1x Eater of Hope
• 1x Halo Hunter
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Kuro, Pitlord
• 1x Liege of the Pit
• 1x Lightning-Rig Crew
• 1x Lobber Crew
• 1x Lord of the Pit
• 1x Malfegor
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Mindwrack Demon
• 1x Moriok Replica
• 1x Necropolis Fiend
• 1x Nettle Drone
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Rakdos the Defiler
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Servant of Nefarox
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Spireside Infiltrator
• 1x Spirit of the Night
• 1x Stoneshaker Shaman
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Vial Smasher the Fierce
• 1x Woebringer Demon
• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
• 1x Xathrid Demon

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Breeding Pit
• 1x Chainer's Torment
• 1x Daxos's Torment
• 1x Demonic Rising
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Festering Evil
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Mark of the Oni
• 1x Noxious Field
• 1x Oath of Mages
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Rain of Gore
• 1x Subversion

Land (7)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bad River
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Piranha Marsh
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tomb of Urami
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Artifact (4)

• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (9)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Silence the Believers
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Unlicensed Disintegration

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Sorin Markov

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"Demons Demons Demons Demons"

-Steve Balmer (Maybe he chanted developers, i can't recall)

"Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent."

― Sandman. Neil Gaiman

Thematically, it's almost all about demons. I had to add a few creatures to do damage to all players and either allow the commander to be cast or to reduce casting costs drastically. Abyssal Persecutor is funny; hold dead players hostage/make them your thralls. Treacherous Pit-Dweller can be silly; Homeward Path can bring him back to you. Defiler of Souls got removed without enough multicolored support, but could be built around with less tribal easily. It's so hard not to put an Eldrazi or two in, but Infernal Reckoning shows how the demons feel about that. I wish Westvale Abbey   made . I just noticed Infernal Denizen became a demon. Would be fun with the enough swamps.

Griselbanned and Recurring Nightmares

Griselbrand should fit with the original not-as-commander ban. Recurring Nightmares in an aggro deck without mass haste and mass mana is pretty weak. At best, you tutor a bunch of bad cards via Rune-Scarred Demon .

Activate Rakdos: Mardu Shadowspear , Night Market Lookout , Abyssal Persecutor , Archdemon of Paliano , Cryptolith Fragment  , Skirsdag High Priest , Shepherd of Rot , Lim-Dul's Hex , Blood Speaker , Bitterblossom , Treacherous Pit-Dweller , Herald of Torment

My play group kept killing me quickly despite this deck being a comparative non-threat, so revisions have been made; Lord of the Pit and Breeding Pit for my childhood nostalgia are sacrificed. Blood and Fire, no watery tears.

Thoughts

• Rakdos's Return can hit a planeswalker and the player pretty hard.
• Demon of Death's Gate is fun if you use black damage enablers. who has the balls for Hellcarver Demon
• 2 wipes: Dread Cacodemon Reiver Demon and kind of Pestilence Demon . Hellfire and Kindred Dominance have flavor, but seem unnecessary given the anti-creature nature of demons.
• to do: fit wheel of fortune and death cloud (last edit, swapped out pulse tracker for the cloud)?

Crucible of Worlds and pox effects could be one tactic. Maybe I'll make a Rakdos the Defiler deck with Tomb of Urami too

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Some combos I noticed playtesting:

• Sneak Attack have/get Rune Scarred Demon, get Sheoldred, sneak attack sheoldred at end of opponents turn, return Rune Scarred Demon. Then get something really mean like Dread Cacodemon .
• The Eldest Reborn followed by Death Cloud
• jank potential Havoc Festival + Wound Reflection
• contemplating Demonic Pact + Harmless Offering and more of the pain demons, but having only 1 harmless offering makes for a lot of bad cards.

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WUG
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 3 Mythic Rares 53 - 20 Rares 12 - 11 Uncommons 6 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.60
Tokens	Cleric 0/1 B, Demon 5/5 B, Demon 6/6 B, Demon X/X B, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Energy Reserve, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Harpy 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH Decks, Playable
Based on	Riot Games(Rakdos Edh) CrystallineFlask EDH