Radiolarian I was finally able to play the deck a few times today, though not as much as I would have liked to. Only had 4 games, two of which I won, and the other two which I got close to winning before being killed by the other most threatening player.

I'd say performance was fine overall. When the deck went off, it went off, and I'd usually be able to steal opponents' creatures and then sac them for Rakdos' effect. I found that I would often target myself for his ability to dig through my deck, mostly because I felt like I was struggling on hitting land drops for whatever reason (then naturally, there was one game where I was absolutely flooded lol).

The deck felt somewhat slow and clunky, especially in the early game. I might need to rethink my mana rocks/ramp. The deck performed best when I'd have value death creatures out like Cathodion and Atsushi, the Blazing Sky. Otherwise stealing opponents' creatures was useful in messing up their boardstate, but wouldn't leave me with much mana to cast other exiled spells unless I happened to have Ashnod's Altar out or had made a crap ton of treasure tokens with The Reaver Cleaver. I think the deck's biggest weakness is that, unfortunately, there are virtually no (cheap) instant-speed steal effects in Rakdos.

I feel like more consistency and value generation is needed.

I might have to rethink the deck's strategy and focus more on sacrificing my own things for value, but that kind of sucks since the whole point of this deck was to be a theft deck. I'd rather refine that strategy instead, but I'm often drawn to building and playing "optimally". I guess we'll see what I end up doing, but for now I'll stick with the theft theme.

Tsukimi That makes sense since they're mostly "for fun" cards. Jasper was originally going to be the commander I built around, but unfortunately for him outlaw tribal didn't seem particularly strong or consistent, so he seemed better off in the 99. He can work as another way to nab extra cards off the top of an opponent's deck since I can see myself casting their creatures off Rakdos' effect. Herigast is meant to help with that in addition to functioning as a pseudo-sac outlet with every creature I cast gaining emerge. Finally, Bazaar Trade is a semi-meme tech since I can give a stolen creature to myself with his ability to let me keep it beyond the Threaten effect. The idea is to use that on particularly powerful creatures like someone's Jin-Gitaxias, Core AugurGC or even their commander.

Bread-and-Butter-EDH I agree, since if you try to spread yourself too thin you're not going to be doing much good in either strategy. I want to stick with the theft/sacrifice strategy since this option seems the most interesting and fun. What do you think of the deck as it is now? Any suggestions?

Radiolarian Haha, no worries, it's easy to overlook stuff when there's so many different names in a list. I appreciate you upvoting and commenting regardless. I do think Nine-Lives Familiar will be a great tool in the deck, especially because of its mana cost. Three cards off the top of any deck per turn seems like great value.

I've actually put in an order for this deck, so I'll be playtesting it against others soon enough. Maybe it's jumping the gun a bit early, but I've been wanting a new deck to play with for a while anyway, and this seems like the kind of deck you can only really get a feel for by playing it against live opponents.