Reaper from the Abyss !!!! Savor the Flavor!!!!

Hahaha, yes I really need to pick one up!

I made a deck very similar to this. But I believe I turned it into Kalia the vast.+1 from me.

Thanks, Chrysis.

I have a Rakdos, the Defiler commander deck of my own, so I'm always thrilled to see Rakdos putting the fear into opponents. Many players scoff and assume you'll always just blindly attack into their Swords to Plowshares , and for some reason don't expect preventative measures like your LD.

I go a slightly different route, using heavy-hitting discard like Cabal Conditioning , Rakdos's Return , Mind Twist , Mind Shatter , and Myojin of Night's Reach . It neutralizes their answers, and makes it that much harder for them to recover after being defiled. Have you considered such a strategy?

Either way, good luck with it, and you've inspired me to try out Keldon Firebombers !

First off, amazing user name Pernicious_Dude. I'm going to head over and take a look at your deck.

Currently I am quite happy with how this deck runs so I don't think I will be significantly changing the strategy, but I can see heavy discard being a viable option too. It's certainly just as evil and in the spirit of big Rakdos to decimate your opponents' hands.

Glad I put you onto the Firebombers, a big Rakdos swing into a post-combat Firebombers remains my favourite play with this deck. It may actually be my favourite play across any of my decks, come to think of it.

+1 for Cat Stevens reference alone. Good deck though!

absolutely love it, almost makes me regret choosing Olivia as a rakdos commander :-D

No regrets! Olivia is sweet too. Thanks for the kind words.

Fleshwrither - Just play and Transfigure it. then you can grab Rakdos, Lord of Riots , Abyssal Persecutor or any other great 4 drop creature.

Phyrexian Purge -Can be used as a controlled Damnation leaving your stuff intact and balancing out the board. Might be better than Ashes to Ashes ? More boom for you buck?

Abhorrent Overlord -For sac-able harpies to the Defielers ability save some lands for a turn or so, maybe?

Desecration Demon -Its a nice Demon but I feel people would just have spare tokens (since its commander some buddy is going to have tokens) just to keep it tapped with.

Hey mymanpotsandpans, thanks for checking my deck out. I don't think Fleshwrither is what I want to be doing, but it is a sweet card. I'd be more likely to play Dimir House Guard so I could transmute for something like Grave Pact .

The reason I passed on Abhorrent Overlord is that my deck takes the opposite strategy than a lot of Defiler decks. I'm not trying to create lots of tokens to sacrifice, instead I focus on killing as many of my opponents' permanents as possible. There are demons at 7cmc that fit my strategy better than the Overlord.

I used to run Desecration Demon , but you are spot on that in Commander people always have tokens to sacrifice to him. I play multiplayer, so he was just always getting tapped down. I took him out of the deck just before he gained popularity in Standard and spiked up to $11, I was happy to trade him away.

I didn't know about Phyrexian Purge , but I really like the look of it and I will consider giving it a spin. In defense of Ashes to Ashes , its majour upside is that it exiles. My group has lots of graveyard shenanigans and I like to get things gone for good.

1) You should run Heartless Summoning. It will make your creatures significantly easier to cast, and when you swing your general you can simply sac it if you need the power to get through an opponent's defenses.

2) Halo Hunter can't destroy Sigarda, Host of Herons, she is hexproof.

solemn simulacrum fits the "things I want to sac" theme

No Dragonskull Summit ?

I did a double take when I saw that suggestion. It's in the deck, but not on here for some reason. Thanks!

Life's Finale would make an awesome addition to this deck. Blow up the field and pick 3 creatures from your opponent's library to dump to the grave. It's extremely good if you're running some reanimator cards.

A card that would really make your deck retarded is Eternity Vessel . If your life total is high enough by the time you play it, you can reset your life total any time you played a land.

You have an interesting deck. I built one a while ago and haven't made much changes for the past couple sets thats have come out. If you are interested you can take a look and comment if you want. It wins me lots of games.

Rakdos: Multiplayer Commander

Choice of Damnations

Bitter Ordeal is useful for any swing that Rakdos makes.

ewpths, you have it. NICE

Anger is useless in your deck. You have no Mountain at all.

Blood Crypt and Badlands are both mountains.

If you're gonna run Master of Cruelties, why not have a Rogue's Passage?

illumfolly got it, with all of the the fetches that I run, I almost always have either Blood Crypt or Badlands out by the time I need Anger to work.

a91welch: I've gone back and forth on Rogue's Passage. Because of all the lands I sac to Rakdos, I want as few non-colour producing lands as possible. It's why I run every single comes into play tapped RB dual. I've also got lots of spells that have double/triple colours in their costs. Lots of playing has shown that Flying, Trample and my efforts to set up a Rakdos attack by clearing the way mean that unblockable is less important than it looks. Those non-colour producing slots are better spent on Wasteland and Strip Mine to make sure that I can kill Maze of Ith.

Thanks for the comments, guys!! As soon as I get my C14 decks this will be getting some updates. There are a couple tasty new Demons in there that I want to try out.