A modification of my Rakdos build heroes-de-venenoI also made a more controllish version to troll w/ Agent of the Fates, can be found here: venenos-agent-of-yolo-1
Several win conditions, my favorite being a cleared board using Agent of the Fates and any combination of Madcap Skills. Hidden Strings over and over and Teleportal to push Hidden Strings through.
Purphoros, God of the Forge is an alternative win condition with all of the token production of Akroan Crusader and Young Pyromancer. Also, if he is out w/ Xathrid Necromancer and Tymaret, the Murder King we can sac our humans for 4 dmg a pop (and a spare zombie token) to give us that last push.
Teleportal is a third win condition if we get enough tokens out w/ Akroan Crusader and Young Pyromancer it can help us get all of them through for at least two dmg a pop.
Card by card:
Creatures:
Akroan Crusader starts us off making tokens. Can swing in for 5 on turn 2 w/ Madcap Skills/Titan's Strength combo.
Tormented Hero helps our tempo and can swing in for 6 on turn 2 w/ Madcap Skills/Titan's Strength combo.
Young Pyromancer makes "free" tokens as we use our spells to trigger our other abilities.
Tymaret, the Murder King is here to sac those tokens for extra damage.
Xathrid Necromancer helps protect us from spot removal, gives us tokens, and protects from boardwipes!
Agent of the Fates is my favorite "finisher" in this deck. Deadly when equipped with Madcap Skills and specially deadly w/ Hidden Strings.
Purphoros, God of the Forge is here purely to abuse token production. If he is out w/ Xathrid Necromancer and Tymaret, the Murder King we can sac our humans for 4 dmg a pop to give us that last push.
Instants:
Coordinated Assault Combat Trick. Can trigger two creatures which is awesome.
Mizzium Skin Provides protection from spot removal which is important to me, and triggers at the same time.
Titan's Strength Combat Trick 2. Obv here to trigger but the Scry is a sweet added bonus.
Boon of Erebos protection from boardwipes and spot protection.
Sorcery/Enchantment:
Hidden Strings Love this card. Can trigger over and over and clears the path for token dmg and all other types of dmg. UNtaps our lands, its awesome.
Teleportal support for Hidden Strings early game, and can help us push through with token damage mid game.
Read the Bones is here for card advantange. I love to move through the deck with scry 2. I've considered Magma Jet here for the board control and scry aspect.
Madcap Skills I just can't excuse not having this card . With the amount of board control it could be hard for the opponent to leave 2 open creatures to block and helps us finish.
This is my only Standard deck and would love help developing a sideboard while I get accustomed to the format and abusing the Blue in this deck better.
would like help w/ my mana distribution. Also wanna make room for Dreadbore?
Thanks!
