Seared Sausage

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) Combo Competitive Discard Infinite Combo Multiplayer Stax

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Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Pit
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Waste Not

Instant (18)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Burnout
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Cathartic Pyre
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Ricochet Trap
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Ulcerate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Grinding Station
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Void Mirror
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Vicious Rumors
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Creature (13)

• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Dragon's Rage Channeler
• 1x Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Skirk Prospector
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Valki, God of Lies  ^Flip
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (4)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Instant (3)

• 1x Flame Sweep
• 1x Kozilek's Return
• 1x Mogg Salvage

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cEDH Kroxa:

Kroxa adds a unique flavor to the world of Rakdos cEDH in that he is both an outlet in the command zone and does not require activated abilities to win. On top of this, outside of the typical WGD combo, Kroxa requires no other win cons or "dead" cards. With this in mind, we can play more staxy cards like Cursed Totem where other Rakdos decks could not. Finally, in today's meta, most win cons require a state of having 2 specific cards in hand. It may be Flash + Hulk, Scepter + Reversal, or Oracle + Consult, but the requirements are the same. The idea of discard control is to attack the hand state of the game. Kroxa's win condition will require only one card in hand (Animate Dead) and one card in the graveyard (Worldgorger Dragon), allowing the pilot to continue the game unhindered if hands are attacked or the game state is reduced to top-decking.

A $500 Budget Brew of this deck has been finalized and can be found here:

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/NrJF402QLUaM7TVyVIztVw

Card Discussions

TESTING BOARD (YOUR COMMENTS HELP ME KNOW HOW GOOD THESE CARDS PERFORMED FOR YOU)

• Tinybones, Trinket Thief A very popular card, so far, but my honest opinion is, as of right now, it's not the greatest piece for our list. The draw is not guarenteed and only really pops of if you've already resolved an established discard engine like Oppression or Chains of Mephisopholes. Too often I find myself being able to streamline into WGD wins and not really needing to sand-bag behind Tinybones for card advantage. On the bright side, it is another creature in a very creature-light deck, which could make the difference when you need creatures in yards to stop your WGD loops. The cut I regularly make for testing Tinybones is Leyline of the Void, which is already a meta-pick on its own.

I get a lot of flack for some of my card choices or lack of choices, so here are my thoughts on some of my picks.

• The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale This may fall under a meta pick for most, but for me and my very few creatures, I'd like to place as much pressure as possible on my opponents creatures without making it too much of a burden for me. Tabby does that nicely.

• Chain of Smog and Chains of Mephistopheles + Wheels. There is a game-state that I like to reach in Kroxa and it's one that I think the deck shines in. It's when all players have empty hands due to discard. Once Worldgorger Dragon is in our graveyard, we need only one of three cards to win, and I'm perfectly fine top-decking for them or a tutor. Other decks like the infamous Sushi Hulk or typical Consult decks require two cards in hand to pull of their win. Either Flash + Hulk or Sushi + Consult. These two card in-hand combos are easy to set up, but once a hand has been completely disrupted, it can be devestating to the player as they rebuild.

• Why aren't you on other win-cons? As of right now, I don't like any other win-cons available in Rakdos, they either require some pretty dead cards or some lengthy set up. With the release of Dockside Extortionist, we are very close to getting some better combos, but not quite yet.

• But you really need a back-up win con! Alright. Fine. Animate Dead an opponents dead Thassa's Oracle and then cast Demonic Consultation. Tadaa. Everyone will be upset. Beat them in the face with a 6/6 Giant. Kroxa even trades into The Gitrog Monster. Take it or leave it.

WGD Loops

What you Need:

• Worldgorger Dragon in the graveyard.
• Animate Dead or Dance of the Dead in hand and enough mana to cast it.
• At least one mana source that doesn't require life to produce colored mana (either red or black).
• Any single creature in any graveyard that's not Worldgorger Dragon

Cast Animate Dead targeting Worldgorger Dragon. When Worldgorger Dragon enters the battlefield, all your permanents will be exiled, including Animate Dead. With Animate Dead no longer in play, you will be forced to sacrifice Worldgorger Dragon. When Worldgorger Dragon leaves play, your permanents will return to play (untapped) and you will have a chance to reanimate Worldgorger Dragon yet again and repeat this process. However, this time, you will hold priority when Worldgorger Dragon's ETB trigger is on the stack and tap all your now untapped mana sources. The loop now repeats itself but this time you are floating excess mana for each iteration of the loop. Once you feel you have built up an obnoxiously large sum of mana, you will need to stop chosing Worldgorger Dragon as your reanimation target for Animate Dead. Instead, select another creature in any graveyard. This stops the "WGD Loop". With your near limitless amounts of mana, you can now begin casting Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger. When Kroxa enters the battlefield, there will be two triggers: one that returns Kroxa to the command zone to be re-cast and one that will make your opponents discard a card. Once your opponents hands have been stripped, they will start losing life when they unable to discard cards. Continually re-casting Kroxa will be more than enough to end the game.

Kroxa is happy to feed on the lighty seared sausages.

Enablers

• Entomb is the cheapest and simplest way to get Worldgorger Dragon into your graveyard. Trying to Gamble your way into getting Worldgorger Dragon into your graveyard is the dumbest meme I've ever seen pulled off.
• Loot cards like Faithless Looting allow you to discard Worldgorger Dragon in case you end up drawing him.
• With the right opening hand, and in it's most optimal form, your win con is only 3 mana (1BB) and two cards: 1B for Animate Dead and B for Entomb.

Tips/Tricks

• Replacing Animate Dead with Necromancy in this loop allows you to start the loop at instant speed if all the previous conditions are met with the addition that you have chosen, previously in the game, to 'Escape' Kroxa.
• Sunscorched Desert and Shivan Gorge are also instant-speed outlets. For a Desert win, you do not need to be able to produce all colors of mana in an easy fasion. Gorge only requires the production of red mana so you can activate it during each iteration of the WGD loop.
• The same instant speed win can be achieved with Emergence Zone and sorcery speed reanimation enchantments like Dance of the Dead.

Please Help Me I Goofed

Actively trying to find solutions to weird puzzles/lock downs players find themselves in. Will also use this to point out weaknesses in the deck and your combos. The more you know about your own weaknesses, the more you can protect them.

Disclaimer: Emergence Zone fixes so many of our problems. Don't expect good solutions or spice when being able to cast instant speed tutors to hand literally fixes 99% of our issues.

WGD and Entomb in hand

• Have had games where you start with Entomb in hand and maybe even your Animate Dead and things are looking grand. Then, you draw Worldgorger Dragon and everything now sucks. Getting out of this really isn't that difficult, but it does put you back a turn or two. Your new Entomb target is Faithless Looting. Faithless Looting is our only loot card with a flashback option. Flashback the Faithless Looting to discard Worldgorger Dragon and claim that win for your own. Easily solved.

Someone Interrupts the WGD Loop

• Worst feeling while playing this loop is someone simply Swords to Plowshares-ing our Worldgorger Dragon. It's literally the worst.

**What do I do? **

• The first option is to simply try and protect your loop with cards like Imp's Mischief.
• Fork is basically only good when there is a counter-spell being pointed at your reanimation enchantment,
• Imp's Mischief is your only answer to uncounterable interraction like Abrupt Decay and Dovin's Veto.
• If it's a bounce effect like Chain of Vapor, then counterspells like Red Elemental Blast, Pyroblast and Burnout become good options.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Combo 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Infinite Combo 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.96
Tokens	Emblem Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, Orc Army, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B