"Why don't we suffer for awwwwhhhile?"-Xantcha

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) Group Slug

Firestalker

Land (37)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Molten Slagheap
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Throne of the High City

Creature (10)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Custodi Lich
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Mindclaw Shaman
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Captive Audience
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Parasitic Impetus
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1x Shiny Impetus
• 1x Vicious Shadows
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Wound Reflection

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Head Games
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Peer into the Abyss

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Angrath, the Flame-Chained

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bloodthirsty Blade
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Cluestone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Instant (7)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Terminate

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Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Pain Magnification

Land (1)

• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Allure of the Unknown
• 1x Bad Deal
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Repay in Kind

Creature (4)

• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Lightning Reaver
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief

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One of my favorite decks. The point of the deck is to get Xantcha out early for sometimes decent damage and set up for everybody to use her ability later. Otherwise you just smile and watch everybody kill each other. A few incremental or mass discard spells can make a mean but effective way of ensuring one of these things happen. See Sire Of Insanity and Angrath, the Flame-Chained. Goad effects and political cards takes care of the other. Sow chaos and violence in the realm by passing around the monarch with cards like Custodi Lich or forcing combat situations with something like Disrupt Decorum. Goad really is your best friend in this deck, but we also have access to a few pillow fort cards in Rakdos colors for when you can't channel the aggression or need more help doing so. No Mercy and Crawlspace to name a few. In a perfect world, you want to bide your time and appear as a nonthreat for as long as possible. In the meantime, ramp yourself and use Xantcha's ability a few times. Then you can start dropping group slug cards like Painful Quandary. Encourage or outright force opponents to fight each other to keep them off your back while you continue to drop group slug pieces. Ideally, you want to "borrow" or remove the opponent's armies altogether once they pose a real threat to you. Insurrection or any board wipe will do this. Usually, you can profit off these creature deaths with an increase in mana, targeted damage or life drain. See cards like Black Market or Bloodchief Ascension. When the dust settles and you have hopefully bought enough time for yourself, your opponents should be broken, weak, knee deep in blood and low on life. If that isn't the case, you have some strictly meaner methods of getting there with cards like Captive Audience or Head Games. Now you can win the game with something like an x spell or repeated activations of Xantcha. You should have a hearty amount of mana by now if you adequately stalled or profited enough from the violence. That's it really. Ramp, goad, pillow fort, group slug and be rewarded for causing pain and death. With a Rakdos colored commander at your side, as long as you burn, bleed and enjoy, you have already won.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.76
Tokens	City's Blessing, Gold, Elemental 5/1 R, Ogre 3/3 R, On an Adventure, Survivor 1/1 R, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander Stuff, Reference