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Commander / EDH* Artifact BR (Rakdos) Combo Group Slug

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Artifact (28)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Thran Turbine
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (5)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Land (32)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (12)

• 1x Cabal Paladin
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Immolation Shaman
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Manaforge Cinder
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Reckless Fireweaver
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Tsabo Tavoc

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Angrath, the Flame-Chained
• 1x Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Burning Sands
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Theater of Horrors
• 1x Vow of Lightning
• 1x Wound Reflection

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Cruel Entertainment
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Devastation
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

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Creature (17)

• 1x Cathodion
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Hazoret the Fervent
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Hellkite Igniter
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Netherborn Phalanx
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1x The Scorpion God

Land (6)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Wasteland

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Harmless Offering
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Inner Fire
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Reprocess
• 1x Tendrils of Agony
• 1x Vandalblast

Instant (4)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Rakdos Charm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil

Artifact (12)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Venser's Journal

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Citadel of Pain
• 1x Eldrazi Conscription
• 1x Fists of the Demigod
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Stranglehold

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Silly Rakdos politics disguises an absolute house of a combo/groupslug commander with one of the deadliest mana sinks in the game. Here's my pitch for Xantcha, Sleeper Agent as the only truly busted general in Rakdos colors.

3: Draw a card, an opponent loses 2 life. Instant speed, she doesn't have to tap...the rest is irrelevant flavor. Her activated ability draws you cards and hurts your opponents at the same time...I feel like that's really good, right?

Paradox Engine is definitely your main win-con. Three or four mana rocks are usually enough for your general to draw your whole deck and drain for the win. You can hit critical mass as early as turn 5, then just keep drawing and draining and playing more mana rocks.

Firebrand Archer , Reckless Fireweaver , and Cabal Paladin quickly stack up in a deck that runs like 30 artifacts. Not only will these guys win you the game on the spot if you're comboing off with Paradox Engine , they put in work all game long even in a slow grind.

I was originally running Sanguine Bond (because Exquisite Blood is a shoe-in), but it didn't really do anything except serve as a backup combo piece taking up a 5-slot. Wound Reflection and Havoc Festival are both incredibly good draws on their own, even without each other. The fact that they win the game together is almost irrelevant--they'd both make the cut even if they didn't.

I'm still running Exquisite Blood because it's completely bonkers with this kind of a strategy and may well keep you alive long after you should have been dead. Also, everyone who sees it and knows what they're looking at is going to be expecting the other shoe to drop at any second--so Exquisite Blood doesn't only put in incredible value, it stands a real shot at absorbing removal that should really be directed towards one of your real combo pieces. If I draw Disenchant and my opponent has Paradox Engine , Havoc Festival and Exquisite Blood ? Those are all completely legitimate targets, in the sense that "if I don't answer this right now, I'm probably dead next turn."

We've got some Basalt Monolith / Rings of Brighthearth action going on to insta-drain whoever is unlucky enough to have your general. We've got the Harsh Mentor making sure your opponents don't get too fast-and-loose with their Xantcha activations. We've got Tsabo Tavoc because she's cheesy like everything else you're running, you've got enough mana rocks to get her out, and she takes a great big ol' dookie on all general-based strategies until she's dealt with.

Stuffy Doll is a menace in its own right and does horrible, horrible things with Pestilence and/or Pyrohemia . Neheb, the Eternal is starting to get recognition for how broken he is as a general, but he also synergizes frighteningly well with Xantcha.

A big part of what I like about this deck is that it is completely non-linear while still being simple to pilot. Your opponents do a large chunk of your work for you-- Xantcha, Sleeper Agent gives them enough rope to hang themselves, and Rakdos colors position you perfectly to swoop in on your crippled enemies after they've finished using the resources (that you've given them) to destroy each other.

I haven't even calculated the odds of pulling this off, but check out this move I call the Quadruple Dip.

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent + Thran Turbine + Neheb, the Eternal + Heartstone + Alhammarret's Archive .

It's your upkeep--Turbine gives you {C}{C}, so you can activate Xantcha because of Heartstone. Draw two cards because Archive, opponent loses 2 life. Beat your meat for the rest of your turn. It's the end of your combat phase--Neheb gives you {R}{R}, activate Xantcha. Draw two cards cuzza Archive, opponent loses 2 life.

That's what happens every turn without you adding a single mana. The Quadruple Dip is a machine that just runs itself. If anyone ever pulls off the Quadruple Dip on me? I'm just gonna scoop.

Top Ranked	Achieved #22 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #17 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Artifact 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.93
Tokens	Construct 1/1 C Token w/ Defender, Gold
Folders	Decks to think About