Rakdos Shrugged

Standard* Competitive Control UBR (Grixis)

cyberderpz

Creature (5)

• 2x AEtherling
• 3x Augur of Bolas

Planeswalker (4)

• 2x Jace, Architect of Thought
• 2x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

Land (26)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 2x Nephalia Drownyard
• 4x Steam Vents
• 4x Sulfur Falls
• 4x Watery Grave

Instant (16)

• 3x Far / Away
• 3x Izzet Charm
• 3x Opportunity
• 4x Think Twice
• 3x Warped Physique

Sorcery (9)

• 3x Mizzium Mortars
• 3x Molten Birth
• 3x Rakdos's Return

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Olivia Voldaren

Planeswalker (4)

• 2x Jace, Memory Adept
• 2x Liliana of the Veil

Artifact (2)

• 2x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (6)

• 2x Counterflux
• 2x Devour Flesh
• 2x Syncopate

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Dreadbore

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Snapcaster Mage

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ral Zarek

Instant (2)

• 2x Psychic Spiral

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Slaughter Games

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Work in progress. How I came up with this deck was first netdecking an Esper Control list, then I replaced the white cards with what I thought was appropriate.

Sphinx's Revelation --- Opportunity

Lingering Souls --- Molten Birth

Blood Baron of Vizkopa --- Olivia Voldaren

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad --- Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

Azorius Charm --- Izzet Charm

Supreme Verdict --- Mizzium Mortars

It's pretty obvious that the first 2 substitutions are inferior, but the last 4 aren't strictly worse. They're just different cards. I looked at the overall weaknesses and tweaked the list over and over and added in some red.

Win conditions:

• AEtherling

• Nephalia Drownyard

• Tamiyo, the Moon Sage emblem + Rakdos's Return (but not very likely)

• Jace, Memory Adept from sideboard

• You play Augur of Bolas and reveal Rakdos's Return. The opponent flips the table.

The gameplan for this deck is to clear the board with spot removal and ping with your Molten Birth tokens and Augur of Bolas. Use your draw power in the midgame to dominate with Rakdos's Return, AEtherling, or a planeswalker. Opportunity is a nice substitute for Sphinx's Revelation and with all of your removal, lifegain isn't too important to have.

In the late game, you want to have their hand clear and living from the top of their decks. Against decks such as Jund, Hexproof, and Reanimator, siding in the counterspells is the plan. I decided to exclude them from the mainboard because in most other matchups I have enough removal to not need them.

I find that this deck can handle The Rock, Jund, and Gruul pretty well. I need to do some more testing against Aristocrats and Reanimator.

My worst matchup is against UWR because of their lifegain and they have Snapcaster Mage. I cannot outrace them. Mill and counterspells from the sideboard seems to be the best plan of attack, and just stall from there. I was thinking of adding Psychic Spiral but it might be too narrow.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 6 Mythic Rares 31 - 5 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage