Rakdos' Threateningly Good Time

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BR (Rakdos) Multiplayer Sacrifice Theft Theme/Gimmick Value Engine

Archon_Bel

Creature (28)

• 1x Ardent Elementalist
• 1x Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cathodion
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Exterminator Magmarch
• 1x Forsaken Miner
• 1x Gleeful Arsonist
• 1x Illuminor Szeras
• 1x Infernal Captor
• 1x Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
• 1x Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1x Molten Primordial
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Nine-Lives Familiar
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Poxwalkers
• 1x Prosper, Tome-Bound
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Warren Soultrader
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Lazotep Quarry
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Muraganda Raceway
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Song-Mad Ruins  ^Flip
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Temple of Malice

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Furnace Reins
• 1x Harness by Force
• 1x Insatiable Avarice
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Mass Mutiny
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Seize the Spotlight
• 1x Spreading Insurrection
• 1x Take for a Ride
• 1x Wrangle

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Crowded Crypt
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Helm of Possession
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Instant (7)

• 1x Act of Aggression
• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Eviscerator's Insight
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Untimely Malfunction

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Good for me, threatening for you lol.

My fifth deck I've made for irl play and the first after a couple of years of not playing Magic. The idea is to steal your opponents' creatures with cards like Take for a Ride and then sacrifice them to one of the many sac outlets to get rid of them and enjoy a nice payoff from Rakdos' ability. It's like you're hiring goons for your heist and then killing them off to enjoy all the spoils for yourself, just like a true criminal mastermind would! I've found I mostly target myself for Rakdos' effect, but you can also obviously target your opponents to keep stealing more of their stuff and potentially snipe an important card out of their deck.

I said before that this deck had been a real hassle to make, but it turned out to work pretty well in the end. I won the vast majority of my games with it and was able to control the board well enough by stealing and murdering dangerous creatures. Other than combat damage and out-valuing the rest of the table, the instant-win combo is done with Forsaken Miner + Phyrexian Altar + Rakdos, the Muscle . Sacrifice the miner to the altar, commit a crime by targeting an opponent's deck with Rakdos' effect, and then bring the miner back with the mana you got from Phyrexian Altar. Keep doing that until you exile everyone's deck. Another loop I found by accident thanks to another player pointing it out is with Cathodion + Phyrexian Altar + Phyrexian Reclamation + Pitiless Plunderer. It's technically not infinite due Phyrexian Reclamation's life cost, but you can bring back and sacrifice the Cathodion for as long as you want and dig through a nice chunk of someone's deck. Hilarious with Vedalken Orrery out.

Likely still have some refining to do, but that's true of any new deck you make.

Date added	3 weeks
Last updated	2 days
Key combos	Forsaken Miner + Phyrexian Altar + Rakdos, the Muscle Cathodion + Phyrexian Altar + Phyrexian Reclamation
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Start Your Engines!, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed
Folders	possibles