Rakdos Control

Standard BR (Rakdos) Control Cruel Control Discard

MightyNinjanaut

Instant (5)

• 3x Doom Blade
• 2x Hero's Downfall

Sorcery (18)

• 3x Anger of the Gods
• 4x Dreadbore
• 3x Duress
• 2x Mizzium Mortars
• 2x Rakdos's Return
• 4x Thoughtseize

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Underworld Connections

Creature (11)

• 4x Desecration Demon
• 3x Lifebane Zombie
• 4x Stormbreath Dragon

Land (24)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 8x Mountain
• 4x Rakdos Guildgate
• 8x Swamp

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 3x Dark Betrayal
• 3x Devour Flesh

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 2x Slaughter Games

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

Creature (1)

• 1x Lifebane Zombie

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Underworld Connections

Creature (1)

• 1x Underworld Cerberus

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Rakdos Control: It can be a thing!

The main goal of this deck is to stall until you can get your big hitters out (Desecration Demon and Stormbreath Dragon by using loads of removal and kill spells. Dreadbore and Hero's Downfall deal with planeswalkers VERY well, whereas Mizzium Mortars, Anger of the Gods and Doom Blade help deal with early game aggression in addition to Dreadbore and Hero's Downfall. Thoughtseize is to mess up their mana curve and pick out any pesky creatures or removal spells, as well as get rid of gods before they come into play. [[Underworld Connections is useful, for drawing the right creature or right control spell when it's needed.

The sideboard is pretty standard: Dark Betrayal against mono-black, Lifebane Zombie against Selesnya/Esper. Slaughter Games can straight up kill certain decks, and Ratchet Bomb helps deal with any creature en masse (Pack Rat, etc.). Devour Flesh is additional removal in case it's necessary, as well as a way to get rid of difficult indestructible creatures.Pithing Needle is the only sideboard card i'm unsure about: my deck has plenty of Planeswalker removal as is, so Pithing Needle isn't necessary for that.Still, there are many other situations where it is of value. Duress, Thoughtseize and Rakdos's Return help deal with anything in their hand to kill our big hitters.

Please give any Feedback: i'm relatively new to Magic, but from my experience this works really well.

Top Ranked	Achieved #82 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 22 - 6 Rares 2 - 3 Uncommons 10 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.64
Folders	Rakdos, swag, stuff