Rack Not Rakdos

Modern 8-Rack BR (Rakdos) Combo Competitive Control Discard

ScaryKoolaide

Land (19)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 1x Mountain
• 12x Swamp

Enchantment (12)

• 4x Liliana's Caress
• 4x Shrieking Affliction
• 4x Waste Not

Artifact (4)

• 4x The Rack

Instant (2)

• 2x Extirpate

Sorcery (23)

• 4x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Dark Deal
• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Raven's Crime
• 2x Sign in Blood
• 4x Smallpox
• 4x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Land (3)

• 3x Ghost Quarter

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Illness in the Ranks

Artifact (2)

• 2x Ensnaring Bridge

Instant (4)

• 2x Lightning Bolt
• 2x Rakdos Charm

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Duress
• 2x Pyroclasm

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Leyline of the Void

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

Instant (1)

• 1x Kolaghan's Command

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This is what I've settled into after getting somewhat frustrated with the way my more Waste Not / Liliana's Caress driven Grixis deck seemed to have a tendency to just lose steam if a Waste Not chain petered out and opponent went hellbent.

I removed the cards like Wistful Thinking and trimmed it down to a very heavy black deck with just a splash of red mostly for the 4x Burning Inquiry and to be able to play Pyroclasm out of the board vs the multitude of decks it tends to be good against (Junk, Affinity, U/R pyro/delver, etc,). It also opens us up to the possibility of exploring Blood Moon as the only reason the non-basics tend to be in the deck is to get the red, so they'd just become mountains anyway.

The basic concept is to now be in a better situation where we can set up a scenario where if the opponent is trying to sandbag cards to get out of 8-rack range, which can sometimes be a problem for those dedicated decks, they set themselves to potentially getting crushed by a Waste Not/Liliana's Caress chain, and if they're trying to stay hellbent to get out of that chain, they open themselves up to taking huge damage every upkeep to the 8-rack.

Smallpox has been the surprise all-star inclusion from my prior Grixis build. It still hits the discard triggers, it slows opponent's down typically far more than us as we can easily operate off of 2 lands all game, and on the draw it usually edicts away some pesky 2 drop like a 'Goyf or Pyro.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 2 Mythic Rares 16 - 0 Rares 17 - 11 Uncommons 10 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.39
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B