Blood and Life for Victory

Commander / EDH Combo Death and Taxes Jank RBW (Mardu) Stax Suicide Black

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Land (34)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 8x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 5x Swamp

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Call the Gatewatch
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Last Chance
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Shreds of Sanity
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Warrior's Oath
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Instant (10)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Chance for Glory
• 1x Crackling Doom
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Ignite the Beacon
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Gideon Blackblade
• 1x Gideon, Champion of Justice
• 1x Gideon of the Trials
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Angel of Grace
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Blood Celebrant
• 1x Charmbreaker Devils
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Exquisite Archangel
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Maralen of the Mornsong
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Near-Death Experience
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Test of Endurance

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tibalt, Rakish Instigator

Creature (1)

• 1x Archangel of Tithes

Land (2)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Volcanic Vision

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Rakdos has earned its natural place as the hands down indisputable color of "weird". A Rakdos deck is not Rakdos if you can't get yourself into a sticky situation. In contrast, white is the color of creative solutions. Hence, I created this deck as an experiment to see what would happen if I tried to balance as many shenanigans as possible in an EDH deck with as many creative solutions as possible? Need an extra turn at two mana? You got it. Need to not lose at your next end step? You got that too. While this is a Mardu deck in colors, I do not consider this a Mardu deck, because although half the deck has white as a component, this is a Rakdos deck in function.

There are around 20 or more ways to suddenly win, ranging from classics like Final Fortune/Felidar Soveriegn to newer ones like Karn, The Great Creator and Mycosynth Lattice. The beauty of this deck is that there is not one clear path to win, but as many as you can make possible. Enter Licia, Sanguine Tribune. She is the perfect Commander for this deck, because she gives her blood, her life, and all she has for victory. WE give our blood to Warrior's oath and Chance for Glory to achieve victory. WE give our life to doom whisperer and necropotence to achieve victory. WE give All our tutors and extra turns and if you have removal we lose the game moments to achieve victory. Sometimes by turn 6, sometimes never. Licia is the poster child of this deck. Also she is a large body that can gain life and take it away if needed, that will relatively reliably win battles due to first strike. Licia was made to command a high stakes all in terror fest that is this amalgamation. And even if death knocks at your door, there is always angel's grace to save the day.

Updated with a few new combos and gadgets from War of The Spark.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Emblem Gideon of the Trials, Treasure
Folders	Licia