Kill Them With Madness

Commander / EDH 8-Rack BR (Rakdos) Discard

DianaiOfInsanity

Creature (23)

• 1x Abyssal Nocturnus
• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Bedlam Reveler
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Blazing Specter
• 1x Blood Scrivener
• 1x Cabal Interrogator
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Hellfire Mongrel
• 1x Hollowborn Barghest
• 1x Lavaborn Muse
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Neheb, the Worthy
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Rackling
• 1x Rakdos Augermage
• 1x Rakdos Pit Dragon
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Stromkirk Occultist
• 1x Stronghold Rats

Land (37)

• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Howltooth Hollow
• 15x Mountain
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 19x Swamp

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Brink of Madness
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Nihilistic Glee
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Waste Not

Artifact (10)

• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Cluestone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Scepter of Fugue
• 1x Skullcage
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Rack
• 1x Wheel of Torture

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Abandon Hope
• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Cabal Conditioning
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Head Games
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Monomania
• 1x Pox
• 1x Psychotic Episode
• 1x Pulse of the Dross
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Void

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Hellcarver Demon
• 1x Jagged Poppet
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Hazoret's Undying Fury

Artifact (1)

• 1x Geth's Grimoire

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Hecatomb
• 1x Pillar Tombs of Aku
• 1x Words of Waste

Creature (1)

• 1x Underworld Cerberus

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Persecute

Artifact (1)

• 1x Uba Mask

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This is an attrition EDH deck inspired by 8-rack. The main idea of the deck is to attack the hand with discard enchantments such as negrogen mists to sap your oppenents resources; start with the hand, then work your way down. By using spells such as Pox and Death Cloud to remove what's left of the enemies resources while leaving your enchantments on the board.

If that plan doesn't pan out, then there are cards like Liliana's caress to help hurt your opponent as they discard, meaning that even decks that do draw cards will be hurting. For any decks without consistent draw, there are cards like wheel of torture to kill them over a few turns, ideally with a few cards that deal a little damage every turn.

This deck also creates a very interesting top-deck-war style of play, but this deck is designed to topdeck better than basically any other deck. Plan A is to use cards that draw every turn such as asylum visitor to draw extra cards every turn. Plan B is to topdeck cards with hellbent or heckbent to take advantage of having zero cards in hand. Plan C is to play a 6/6 flyer out of the command zone and go from there. XD

So, why malfegor over other options like neheb the worthy? Well, malfegor is a big flying beater, and it's potentially a wrath that comes out of the command some while allowing cards to go to the graveyard.

A few things to keep in mind with this deck: 1) There is a target on the back of this deck. It's not trying to make friends, and will often be the archenemy at the table. 2) Every card you discard is worth one card for each of your opponents. In most games, each card discarded is like a 3-for-1 trade for you. 3) The main point is to empty the hands of the table and then topdeck better than everyone else in that situation. Each card you draw should be better than anything an opponent draws when nobody has a hand. 4) This is almost like "fun stax". The mentality is the same when playing the deck, but it's not as boring for your opponents as they still have the chance to draw into threats that they can play. Every draw is supposed to feel like a gamble. 5) This deck is budget friendly for what it does. The manabase is by no means optimal, but it works out more often than not.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 2 Mythic Rares 40 - 3 Rares 19 - 2 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B