A GOOD DAY TO DIE!!!

Commander / EDH Aggro BR (Rakdos) Lifegain Lifelink Sacrifice Voltron

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Landing Zone (28)

• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Pay What I Want (8)

• 1x Blood Celebrant
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Immolating Souleater
• 1x Deepwood Ghoul
• 1x Mischievous Poltergeist
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Hatred

Greven Fodder (6)

• 1x Lupine Prototype
• 1x Phyrexian Soulgorger
• 1x Rotting Regisaur
• 1x Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Karlach, Fury of Avernus

Ramp (14)

• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Rowan, Scion of War

Board Interaction (8)

• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Phyrexian Purge
• 1x Chandra's Ignition

Regaining Life (7)

• 1x Witch's Clinic
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Vampiric Link
• 1x Eternal Thirst
• 1x Unexpected Fangs
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Direct Hit (3)

• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Soul's Fire

Other (3)

• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu

Commander (1)

Protection and Haste (10)

• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fervor

Double Standards (7)

• 1x Kargan Intimidator
• 1x Return to Action
• 1x Rush of Vitality
• 1x Essence Harvest
• 1x Mask of Griselbrand
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Soul Channeling

Sneaking Thru (5)

• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Vorrac Battlehorns
• 1x Dauthi Embrace
• 1x Silent Arbiter

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Rising of the Day

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Maybeboard

Other (2)

• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Tainted Strike

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Violence is the only Answer

Sometimes you don't want to play a long grindy game. Sometimes you want a deck that plays more violently. When that is the case, this is the deck you pull out.

The play pattern is to ramp as quick as we can into Greven, Predator Captain. Once he is out, it is critical to give him lifelink to recoup the huge amounts of life the deck burns thru. Once he has lifelink, we want to use one of the many life sinks the deck includes to pay enough life to allow Greven to swing in for lethal commander damage.

The deck also includes some ways to deal with opponents that can't be attacked such as Essence Harvest.

Power Level

Mtg.cardsrealm = 7

Beyond that in magical Christmas land, we have the ever fun combo of a pumped up Greven, Predator Captain+ Tainted Strike + Chandra's Ignition.

The deck also includes a number of cheap high power creatures that we can sacrifice to Greven. They will pump him up a little, but they are more to just keep a full grip of cards available. Some decks are a bit heavier in this category, but I prefer the consistency of a larger number of pay life effects.

When playing the deck, I've learned that you can't be "nice" and try to spread damage around. People are afraid of and will kill Greven as quick as possible. When you have any opening to swing in with Greven, you have to take it and be absolutely ruthless and give no quarter.

Top Ranked	Achieved #146 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #108 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Aggro 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 16 - 1 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.62
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 C
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