The Torture Never Stops

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Burn Control Group Slug Multiplayer Suicide Black

Ruffigan

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Strip Mine
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wasteland

Slug (16)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Burning Sands
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x From the Ashes
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Pain Magnification
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Wound Reflection

Draw (20)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Greed
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Control (13)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Fork
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Victim of Night

Commander (1)

Mana (16)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

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Maybeboard

Other (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Indomitable Creativity
• 1x Pox
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Voltaic Key

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"All men be cursed" This is a group slug deck with the Evil Prince of Urborg, Kaervek the Merciless, at the helm.

The deck is a race to the bottom, dealing damage to every player and using Kaervek the Merciless to control the board and ping problem players. I've opted out of using small pingers (such as Ankh of Mishra and Spellshock) for a couple reasons: they slot into my curve where my mana rocks/spells are and draw unnecessary hate early game. I've instead opted for slightly more expensive slug cards such as Tainted AEther, Burning Sands, and Manabarbs to really give them something to think about.

A typical game will start with 3-4 lands, a mana accelerator or two, and some way to gain card advantage. You'll be wanting to ramp and set up card advantage early game and start pressuring with slug cards and controlling the board mid-game. Kaervek the Merciless does not come out unless you can ramp into him early or you have wiped the board. In order of importance, you'll want to use his ability to 1: protect yourself from scary creatures; 2: kill important utility creatures; 3: burn the scariest player. The use of politics is crucial here, as you will become the public enemy. At this point in the game, you will either be dead or have slugged the table enough to seal victory.

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Interactions

• Torment of Hailfire is a good card on its own but combined with Mana Geyser, Fork, Reverberate, or Bonus Round it becomes a win condition.


• Wound Reflection is a great card on its own and synergizes with most of the deck but it can kill opponents outright with Havoc Festival or Heartless Hidetsugu.


• Possibility Storm. The deck is optimized to have an average of 3-3.5 CMC to ensure good hits with Possibility Storm. Kaervek the Merciless also deals damage for the first exiled spell and the second spell, if they decide to cast it. If you happen to Storm into Yawgmoth's Will the cards you play from your graveyard will be placed on the bottom of your library, allowing you to reuse them again later.
• You can channel your inner-Nekusar, the Mindrazer by using Spiteful Visions or Molten Psyche with Magus of the Wheel, Memory Jar, Molten Psyche, Reforge the Soul, or Wheel of Fortune. Bonus points for using a damage doubler.
• Yawgmoth's Will and Mizzix's Mastery can both be played late game to get massive value and possibly win the game. Combined with cheap tutors in the graveyard you can assemble any number of ways to deal massive damage.

Cutting Board:

• Increasing Ambition
• Basilisk Collar
• Ashes to Ashes
• Nevinyrral's Disk

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 9 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Burn 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 4 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant
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