Shocking Thoughts (Legacy MTG Deck)

Shocking Thoughts

Legacy BR (Rakdos) Combo

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Creature (20)

Land (16)

Enchantment (8)

Artifact (4)

4x Lotus Petal

Instant (12)

I mainly play casual multiplayer and my decks are built with this in mind.

This deck is a bit more directly aggressive than my other builds. The core interaction is Kederekt Parasite + Shocker where Shocker causes the opponent to discard and redraw their hand, and the Parasite damages them for every card drawn.

This spirals out to Liliana's Caress to cause life-loss for the discard, Winds of Change for extra card draws and so on.

The deck is fully focused on pulling off its central trick and any cards that don't form part of the central combo are there to speed things along.

The "godhand" is to open with a Kederekt Parasite , a Barbed Shocker, a Swamp, a Mountain, a Liliana's Caress and two Dark Ritual (I know, it's unlikely but it's fun when it happens) which allows you to do up to 24 damage on turn 2.

Molten Psyche is a bit tricky to get right as you need to have enough of the Artifact Lands in play to pull it off but if the opponent has had a Shocker hit or a Winds of Change it can usually hit for the kill.

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Manamanamanamana — April 5, 2014

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Have had good results lately changing out the Dragonskull Summits for Lotus Petals - the summit is too slow and a dead draw in the opening hand so the petals give a far better success rate in dropping combo pieces turn 1.

This deck is very deadly but has no real endgame so needs to win by turn 4 max, with the petals and a chain of Dark Rituals I've been able to do as much as 30 damage on turn 2!

Tightening up — March 14, 2014

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Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.91
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