Hasty Rakdos Beatdown

Standard* Aggro BR (Rakdos) Dragons

jchudz

Creature (26)

• 4x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 3x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 3x Flamewake Phoenix
• 4x Forerunner of Slaughter
• 2x Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
• 3x Makindi Sliderunner
• 4x Thunderbreak Regent
• 3x Zurgo Bellstriker

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

Land (24)

• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 5x Mountain
• 3x Polluted Delta
• 4x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Instant (9)

• 4x Draconic Roar
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 4x Wild Slash

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Sideboard

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Outpost Siege
• 1x Virulent Plague

Instant (7)

• 2x Complete Disregard
• 1x Dispel
• 2x Murderous Cut
• 2x Negate

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Ruinous Path
• 3x Self-Inflicted Wound

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Abbot of Keral Keep
• 1x Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Scab-Clan Berserker
• 1x Soulflayer

Instant (3)

• 1x Foul-Tongue Invocation
• 1x Neutralizing Blast
• 1x Titan's Strength

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Despise
• 1x Exquisite Firecraft

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Rakdos aggro deck combining aspects of Jason Espesito's and Tomoharu Saito's lists.

The plan of the deck is to apply pressure early with cheap creatures, about 50% of which have, or can give themselves haste when top-decked.

If the smaller creatures get stone-walled, you finish them off with dragons, which let you run the best burn removal spell in standard right now, Draconic Roar .

Bloodsoaked Champion and Flamewake Phoenix help alleviate the weakness to sweepers that normally plague aggro decks like this. The high amount of haste in the deck also helps make it easier to trigger raid for bloodsoaked champion.

So far in testing Scab-Clan Berserker has been great in the deck. Still probably not going to have it more than a 2 of, but it has caught a lot of people off guard in game 1.

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Sideboard:

Duress to grab sweepers before they can be cast. Also comes in against atarka red to hit become immense or command.

Hangarback Walker comes in against removal heavy decks and for matchups where there is a high chance of the games getting grindy. Seems a little slow for the maindeck.

Outpost Siege/Ob Nixilis Reignited comes in for the control matchup to get some card advantage to push through removal/couterspells.

Murderous Cut for unconditional removal in the midrange matchup.

Self-Inflicted Wound as a concession to Siege Rhino that potentially also deals with annoying cards like Mantis Rider and Dragonlord Ojutai

Virulent Plague comes in against retreat control, since the colors can't deal with enchantments and also has a hard time with answering them with 1 for 1 removal. Also good against aristocrat decks that rely on tokens to get value out of their creatures through tokens on death.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 1 Mythic Rares 22 - 3 Rares 12 - 6 Uncommons 3 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.36
Tokens	Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Emblem Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker
Folders	Bfz standard, Standard Ideas, Fun Standard Decks, Standard deck Ideas, BFZ STD, Old Standard decks