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Rakdos, Party Animal

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos)

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Rakdos, Lord of Riots EDH deck

A pretty fun deck oriented around blowing everyone on the board up. Also partially an Eldrazi tribal because of how well Rakdos synergizes with fully colorless cards.

The basic gameplay it to drop one of our numerous pingers and mana rocks between turns 1-3, then drop papa rakdos on turn 4 (or turn 3 w/ mana rocks). After that there's a couple ways to win:

Doing a bunch of damage to everyone. While not as aggressive as red decks, this deck can manage to do a lot of damage to everyone on the board, though this quickly makes you a significant target.

There are two main infinite combos:

Nettle Drone & Ancestral Statue With Rakdos on the board making the Statue free (or cost 1 after a nettle drone ping, assuming a 4 man group) use the statue to repeatedly bounce itself, untapping nettle drone, and infinitely ping your opponents.

Cloudstone Curio & Eldrazi. Use the Curio to chain bounce your eldrazi back to your hand until you've drawn whatever you want, and destroyed/exiled all of their permanents.

Notes: I know I need more tutors and to cut some of the extraneous cards. I'm working on acquiring better tutors and will update the deck when I can get the more expensive ones.

Cards I want to cut:

Urabrask the Hidden , Garna, the Bloodflame , Neheb, the Eternal . The haste enablers haven't impressed me too much, but they have sometimes been very nice when I can't fully combo off but still want some big swings with my Eldrazi army.

Suggestions

Updates Add

RNA is out and with it some new toys (and some old ones I opted for)

Skull Rend > Bedevil

Garna, the Bloodflame > Spear Spewer our new favorite pinger

Retreat to Hagra > Pestilence an iffy change I'm testing. Hagra was inconsistent, but pestilence doesn't provide the turn 4 Rakdos cast.

Staff of Nin > Fire Covenant As much as I liked the card draw, and this deck needs some, a 6 mana artifact is too heavy..

Comments

91% Casual

Competitive

Date added 6 years
Last updated 5 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 0 Mythic Rares

34 - 0 Rares

22 - 0 Uncommons

12 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 4.55
Tokens City's Blessing, Thopter 1/1 C
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