Rakdos gearhulks

Standard BR (Rakdos) Cruel Control Midrange

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Creature (13)

• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 4x Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 2x Noxious Gearhulk
• 4x Weaver of Lightning

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Land (25)

• 4x Foreboding Ruins
• 9x Mountain
• 4x Smoldering Marsh
• 8x Swamp

Artifact (1)

• 1x Hedron Archive

Instant (17)

• 1x Essence Extraction
• 4x Galvanic Bombardment
• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 2x Kozilek's Return
• 3x Succumb to Temptation
• 3x Unlicensed Disintegration

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Incendiary Flow

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Combustible Gearhulk

Planeswalker (4)

• 2x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 2x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Instant (4)

• 4x Fiery Temper

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Harsh Scrutiny
• 3x Transgress the Mind

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This is just an evolution of an old standard dark dwellers deck I was running.

A decent shell for the new Chandra. Typically used for either filtering cards or ramping a gearhulk into play. Fun and versatile, yet a hedron archive is a decent replacement if you don't want to spend too much. Also hedron is good for unlicensed disintegration triggers.

Kalitas is still very good and powerful in a deck with so much removal. Unfortunately incendiary flow is kind of a non-bo because of the exile clause. Harnassed Lightning is fine, but I really like my burn spells to be able to hit my opponent. There's a few trade offs if you'd rather run Harnassed Lightning, live fast, die young, and aether hub. Some instants become sorceries and vice versa, radiant flames becomes the sweeper in this case (with hub) but is not repeatable with gdd. I prefer succumb to temptation as my draw spell because it's instant. Die young as a sorcery hurts as well and you wouldn't cut grasp. I feel like you need a whole energy suite if you want to go in on it or else you end up with colorless lands in a deck with lots of mana requirements.

Goblin dark dwellers are basically noxious gearhulks without the life gain in this deck. A lot more versatile as they can also draw cards or recast kozileks return. The gearhulks are fun win conditions, but I can't go too crazy on 6 drops, because this is not a reanimate deck.

The most fun card here is weaver of Lightning. It blocks smugglers copter and preserves your life total against most aggressive starts. The additional damage from spells is important against x/1s and enables a lot of 2 for 1s.

Any help or ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 5 Mythic Rares 12 - 0 Rares 12 - 6 Uncommons 11 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Zombie 2/2 B
Based on	RB Dragons now with more goblins a88a STD