From the Depths of Hell

Standard* BR (Rakdos) Competitive Control Demons Dragons Midrange

TheFanatic

Creature (15)

• 4x Desecration Demon
• 4x Lifebane Zombie
• 4x Pack Rat
• 3x Stormbreath Dragon

Land (25)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 3x Mountain
• 4x Mutavault
• 10x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Malice

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Underworld Connections

Instant (6)

• 2x Bile Blight
• 4x Hero's Downfall

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Dreadbore
• 2x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 4x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Underworld Connections

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

Instant (2)

• 2x Devour Flesh

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Anger of the Gods
• 4x Duress
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 2x Slaughter Games

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Maybeboard

Artifact (2)

• 2x Rakdos Keyrune

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Read the Bones

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Demons and dragons and murder, oh my!

This is my flavor of Rakdos control. The game plan is to remove everything and win with beaters like Stormbreath Dragon and Desecration Demon or with the always useful, removal-dodging Mutavault or Pack Rat. I destroy the opponent's hand, creatures, and planeswalkers to make sure they can't answer my threats.

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The Threats

• Stormbreath Dragon - The main win-con. Finishes games like nobody's business due to its protection from white, which makes it relatively hard to remove, and its awesome monstrosity ability.
• Desecration Demon - Just an enormous board presence. 6/6 flying for 4 in black? Sign me up!
• Pack Rat - Love it or hate it, this little guy turns every topdeck into a win condition, and gets out of hand quickly.
• Lifebane Zombie - Recently brought into the maindeck from the sideboard in order to help deal with decks like Jund Monsters and Junk Constellation.
• Mutavault - Classic manland, only costs 1 mana to activate and lets me get in for attacks early on in the game and finish off the opponent later on.

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The Removal

• Dreadbore - Classic Rakdos removal, takes out creatures and planeswalkers for a measly 2 mana.
• Hero's Downfall - Dreadbore at instant speed, but with the mana cost of Murder. Fantastic removal.
• Bile Blight - Instant speed removal that can occasionally be a 2-for-1, and takes out many relevant threats like Pack Rat, Mutavault, and Nightveil Specter.
• Mizzium Mortars - The decks's secondary sweeper, except this one costs twice as much and can be used as spot removal if needed.

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The Card Advantage

• Underworld Connections - It's no Phyrexian Arena, but it's still an extremely powerful draw engine against midrange and control.
• Thoughtseize - While technically not card advantage, this card usually trades itself and 2 life for the reason my opponent kept their opening hand, completely throwing off their game plan.
• Whip of Erebos - Lets me get card advantage by bringing my beaters back from the grave, and also allows me to gain back some of the life that I lose through Thoughtseize and Underworld Connections.
• Rakdos's Return - Extremely versatile spell that can shut down the opponent's hand, kill off enemy planeswalkers, or be used as a finishing burn spell. One of our best cards against Sphinx's Revelation decks.

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All comments, suggestions, and +1s are appreciated!

Disclaimer: This deck is based loosely on Lukas Jaklovsky's "Demons and Dragons" deck from Pro Tour Theros. I encourage you to go check it out.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #20 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 1 Mythic Rares 33 - 8 Rares 6 - 0 Uncommons 0 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.69
Tokens	Copy Clone
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