Rakdos Decks?
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Posted on April 11, 2013, 1:50 a.m. by soulshadow
Since I saw the new legendary creature for Rakdos I've been having an itch to make a Rakdos deck, but every B/R deck I see on here is basically vampires and aristocrat. Is Rakdos even viable right now? Or should I wait for DGM's full cardlist?
Ive seen a few really nasTy rakdos aggro deCks. id say definitely Viable now
April 11, 2013 2:10 a.m.
The new ledg. will fit in nicely with mine the Rakdos swing of things
April 11, 2013 2:15 a.m.
soulshadow says... #5
Taiyouai Have you put the Rakdos aggro up on here? I'd be curious to see it and what cards I'm missing for it. Exava just seems so cool, even though you can't block you can bring in all of these creatures with haste and powerups.
April 11, 2013 2:16 a.m.
soulshadow says... #8
Exava would just be a straight drop in once Hellrider cycles out I would think. Until then run both. This deck would only cost me about $18 (I don't have Hellriders) so that's actually not bad..
April 11, 2013 2:21 a.m.
Yea mine is budgeted and pretty much that's what's going to happen. I'm hoping to get some higher cost cards. ($$$ wise) to make it more competitive like Rakdos's Return and Dreadbore
April 11, 2013 2:25 a.m.
soulshadow says... #10
This is actually a second/third deck for me, probably second and possibly would like to make it into a tournament deck to replace my Simic deck, as Rakdos just seems so much more entertaining to me. My goal is to compete in FNM without moving to tri-color and dropping another $160 on lands, I already just bought 3 of each of the U/G rare lands I don't want to do it again lol.
April 11, 2013 2:28 a.m.
XD yea I'm going to drop like $30 for some Drowned Catacomb for a dimir deck but I really don't want to buy some Watery Grave . >.< so much cash that I don't have.
April 11, 2013 2:31 a.m.
soulshadow says... #12
In case you were curious... Thraggy Simic Biomancing. The Simic deck I am playtesting right now.
April 11, 2013 2:47 a.m.
There's a lot of people who play Red Deck Wins with black splash for Dreadbore and Falkenrath Aristocrat , with Duress /Appetite for Brains and Vampire Nighthawk in the sideboard.
The deck's primer might looks something like:
4x Dragonskull Summit 4x Blood Crypt 4x Rakdos Guildgate 9x Mountain -----------------------------------------------21 Lands
4x Ash Zealot 4x Lightning Mauler 4x Rakdos Cackler 4x Stromkirk Noble 4x Hellrider 2x Stonewright 3x Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch-----------------------------------------------25 Creatures
4x Dreadbore 4x Searing Spear 2x Pillar of Flame 2x Brimstone Volley 2x Breaking/Entering-----------------------------------------------14 Other Spells
April 11, 2013 4:29 a.m.
Hellrider should be a must, especially since it dropped to $5 after the duel decks hit. It was $10, but I guess people don't like it when it's reprinted.
April 11, 2013 7:16 a.m.
soulshadow says... #15
So it seems Rakdos decks are basiclaly mono Red with a splash of black?
April 11, 2013 10:14 a.m.
Pretty much. All of blacks aggressive creatures in Standard right now are either zombies or fit more into midrange (specifically Jund) decks. The mana base works a lot easier when you go mostly red with just a touch of black.
Taiyouai says... #2
I'm running minor aggro rakdos. It does amazing in casual but haven't taken it to fnm yet.
April 11, 2013 2:06 a.m.