Rakdos, the Aggressive Reveller

Commander / EDH* Aggro BR (Rakdos) Group Slug

jrgette

Creature (33)

• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Anger
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cunning Sparkmage
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Dire Fleet Ravager
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Flayer Drone
• 1x Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Ingot Chewer
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Lobber Crew
• 1x Phyrexian Gargantua
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Vexing Devil
• 1x Vial Smasher the Fierce
• 1x Viashino Heretic
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (33)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Instant (7)

• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Unlicensed Disintegration
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

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This my Rakdos, Lord of Riots EDH deck. The deck revolves around a core strategy of using early damage from creatures and enchantments to cast a turn 3 or 4 Rakdos, Lord of Riots. This enables us to shift into our mid to late game plan of casting large impactful creatures to win the game through combat damage, the way Richard Garfield intended it.
A few notes about the deck...
I have shied away from including the eldrazi titans or smaller eldrazi due to the feel bad moments they often cause for the rest of the table; the deck also takes a very small power hit from their exclusion.
I also do not have 100 cards in my current list, and for any EDH nights I often just throw in 3 extra lands and 6 flavour of the week non-lands. I am hoping with suggestions I can have a full 100 card list I am confidant In.
I would also like to keep the average CMC as low as possible in the deck as my playgroup runs various land hate and is fairly fast. Creatures can be higher as they can be reduced through Rakdos' ability much non creature permanents are much harder to include at higher casting costs.
If you like the deck then please +1 upvote it or comment with suggestions! Thanks!

Individual Card Choices

Ramp package Show

- Mana Rocks: Sol Ring, Talisman of Indulgence, Rakdos Signet, Coalition Relic, Cryptolith Fragment  , Charcoal Diamond, Fire Diamond, Charcoal Diamond, and Rakdos Cluestone.
- Land Ramp: Burnished Hart and Solemn Simulacrum
- Burst Acceleration: Dark Ritual and Burnt Offering
- Special: Chandra, Torch of Defiance also provides situational ramp that can be useful, although she is primarily not a ramp focused card.

Card Draw Show

- Multi-draw Effects: Necropotence, Phyrexian Arena,Staff of Nin, and Sin Prodder
- Minor-draw Effects: Phyrexian Gargantua, Solemn Simulacrum, and Rakdos Cluestone
- Wheel Effects: Dragon Mage and Knollspine Dragon
- Special: Sensei's Divining Top provides card filtering but does not give you card draw, Chandra, Torch of Defiance gives traditional red exile draw that situationally is useful

Targeted Removal Show

- Damage Based: Cunning Sparkmage, Walking Ballista, Bogardan Hellkite, Kolaghan's Command, Honden of Infinite Rage, Staff of Nin, and Chandra, Torch of Defiance
- Creature Removal: Duplicant, Shriekmaw, Terminate, and Unlicensed Disintegration
- Artifact Removal: Ingot Chewer, Viashino Heretic, Kolaghan's Command, and Vandalblast
- Special: Chaos Warp one of the few rakdos colour pie cards that is capable of dealing with enchantments, or any other troublesome permanent.

Mass Removal Show

-Damage Based: Bogardan Hellkite, Plague Spitter, Blasphemous Act, and Walking Ballista
-Artifact Removal: Vandalblast
-Nonland Permanent: Steel Hellkite and Torment of Hailfire

Other Show

This section for individual card choices is for cards which did not fit into the previous four categories but still have roles to play in the deck.
-Tutors: Sidisi, Undead Vizier, Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Tutor, and Gamble
-Haste Enablers: Mass Hysteria, Lightning Greaves, and Anger
-Strategy Enablers: Heartless Hidetsugu, Purphoros, God of the Forge, Dire Fleet Ravager, Vexing Devil,Thermo-Alchemist, Lobber Crew and Vial Smasher the Fierce
-Strategy Payoffs: Blightsteel Colossus, Grenzo, Dungeon Warden, Maga, Traitor to Mortals, and Wurmcoil Engine
-Special: Vedalken Orrery In larger multiplayer games this is crucial and should be considered an edh staple along with sol ring and sensei's divining top.

Local Meta

Kami of the Crescent Moon
Hokori, Dust Drinker

Game Log

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink