Rakdos Sligh Beats - RakdosDeckWins..

Modern Aggro BR (Rakdos) Budget Competitive Red Deck Wins Theme/Gimmick

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Instant (15)

• 3x Brute Force
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Psychotic Fury
• 4x Terminate

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Fists of the Demigod
• 2x Madcap Skills

Creature (20)

• 4x Ashenmoor Gouger
• 1x Ashenmoor Liege
• 1x Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
• 1x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 4x Goblin Deathraiders
• 4x Rakdos Cackler
• 1x Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• 4x Spike Jester

Land (20)

• 2x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 3x Blood Crypt
• 2x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 7x Mountain
• 5x Swamp

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 2x Rakdos Charm

Sorcery (10)

• 3x Blightning
• 3x Bump in the Night
• 2x Dreadbore
• 2x Slaughter Games

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Contaminated Ground

Creature (1)

• 1x Fulminator Mage

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Maybeboard

Instant (6)

• 2x Boon of Erebos
• 4x Dash Hopes

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Traitorous Blood

Artifact (6)

• 1x Demonspine Whip
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x MImic Vat
• 2x Shrine of Burning Rage
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Creature (12)

• 1x Cryptborn Horror
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Grixis Grimblade
• 1x Jund Hackblade
• 2x Mogis's Marauder
• 4x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Shambling Remains
• 1x Underworld Cerberus

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A themed Boss Sligh/RedDeckWins that I came up with to abuse Fists of the Demigod , Ashenmoor Liege , & Psychotic Fury ..

Part of the inspiration for this was to make a flavorful deck that is cheap, easy to learn, and fun to play; and while not exactly Tier-1 material, it would certainly clean-up at a Casual tournament----especially considering that Doom Blade & Ultimate Price are completely dead cards against this deck..

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Budget modifiers.. Show

Although a realitivly cheap deck (for Modern) to begin with, this deck can actually be built for about ~50$; as demonstrated here: Rakdos Sligh Beats - RDWs.. Extra-Budget..

...and on the other end of the extreme we have a (mostly) foiled out version of the deck that I physically own: Rakdos Sligh Beats - RakdosDeckWins.. (Foiled out)

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Mainboard Breakdown..

Creatures.. Show

Remember each creature was chosen for it's synergy with Ashenmoor Liege + Fists of the Demigod + Psychotic Fury

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Rakdos Cackler : A Rakdos-themed Grizzly Bears for .. Works for me..

Spike Jester : A Hastey Lightning Bolt-on-a-Stick for ..

Goblin Deathraiders : ...and this little 3/1 beat-stick has Trample! And therefore offers the best overall synergy with Brute Force + Fists of the Demigod + Goblin Deathraiders for a powerful turn-3 play..

Fulminator Mage: (non-basic)Land destruction on legs!

Ashenmoor Gouger : A 4/4 heavy beat-stick for ; can be scary on it's own, and becomes even scarier when paired with any number of other various Aggro buffs the next turn before turning it sideways.. ;) (Enables powerful turn-4 plays..)

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch: An even scarier 4/4 heavy beat-stick with First Strike & Haste, and that it also gives my Rakdos Cackler (s) Haste is just sprinkles on top..

Falkenrath Aristocrat: A Hastey 4/1 Flyer with utility that can potentially make her very hard to deal with. (Perfect late-game top-deck..)

Ashenmoor Liege : The Tribal Lord that pumps the rest of my creatures by +2/+2; and even punishes the opponent who targets it for any reason.. (Enables powerful turn-4+ Alpha Strikes)

Rakdos, Lord of Riots : And of course-- the Legendary Rakdos himself! The (reletively) easy to cast Huge Flying Bomb..

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Aura Buffs.. Show

Fists of the Demigod : The star enchantment of this deck.. Gives any creature in this deck +2/+2 First Strike & Wither for only ? Ouch... So much value-~-it's hurts!!~~

Madcap Skills: A (2)-drop +3/+0 buff with pseudo-unblockability can get a lot of damage through..

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Other spells(Instants).. Show

Brute Force: Because Aggro !!!..

Psychotic Fury : A Combat trick that also cantrips are a rare thing for RDWs..

Lightning Bolt: duh....

Terminate: Unconditional targeted creature destruction for problemsome blockers, attackers, utility creatures--such as mana dorks, etc.. And all that at Instant speed!..

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Potential Turn-3 win.. Show

Turn-1: Land --> Unleash Rakdos Cackler

Turn-2: Land --> Madcap Skills --> swing for 5 (w/ Menace)

Turn-3: Land --> Swing --> Psychotic Fury & Brute Force for 16.. GG

(Can also use the less evasive Fists of the Demigod as well)

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Aggressive sideboarding strategy.. Show

Rather than attempting to pack the sideboard full of specific answers to specific decks (that I may--or may not even play against), this deck is meant to aggressively sideboard in Burn according to the particular match-up, essentially transforming the general nature of how the deck executes.

This serves a dual purpose:

• 1) To refine the tempo to become even faster according to the particular match-up..

• 2) Because the mainboard is entirely creature-driven Aggro w/ Auras & instant-speed pump spells. This would invariably draw out an opponent's extra kill spells, boardwipe, and/or any other various creature-hate in their sideboard according to what they they had to deal with Game-1 (as opposed to things such as Leyline of Sanctity). So the idea is---by switching up the Win-con from 100% pumped-up Creature-based combat damage (Sligh Beats..), to a rough mix of Burn & value Creatures (RDWs..), this in turn increases the possibility of the opponent drawing & holding on to dead (or at least significantly lower impact) cards..

Generally speaking;

Vs. Control: sub out non-Haste creatures, and most of the creature buffs for Burn..

Vs. Faster Aggro: sub out mostly higher cost spells for Burn..

Vs. Combo: same as Aggro, but with the addition of Rakdos Charm and/or Slaughter Games..

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Conclusions...

I originally started this while my Johnny side was playing with the Timmy side, but they were causing such a stir that Spike decided to show up to play.. So what I'm saying is: if there is a way to increase the overall competitiveness while staying in theme--Great. Otherwise I do understand that this may never be much more than a Tier-2~3 brew overall, but that doesn't mean that it can't still give the Tier-1 archetypes a run for their money too!! ;)

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Top Ranked	Achieved #16 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Ashenmoor Liege + Fists of the Demigod + Psychotic Fury Brute Force + Fists of the Demigod + Goblin Deathraiders
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 11 - 5 Rares 8 - 2 Uncommons 28 - 8 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.02
Folders	RDW browses, Good Decks, modern idea, Interested, Radkos, Cool Decks, Awesome Decks, Must haves, modern budget, Decks I Want
Based on	The Best $20 You'll Ever Spend Arorsthrar STD