The Rite Stuff

Commander / EDH*

notneeded

Instant (13)

• 1x Breath of Malfegor
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Fork
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hidetsugu's Second Rite
• 1x One with Nothing
• 1x Radiate
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (31)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blood Tithe
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Famine
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Fire Tempest
• 1x Flame Rift
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Morality Shift
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Pox
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Sizzle
• 1x Skull Rend
• 1x Slagstorm
• 1x Syphon Soul
• 1x Volcanic Spray
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Artifact (10)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Creature (4)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Land (39)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 14x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

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Morality Shift -> Radiated Second Rite spell stack kill

Needs 9RRBBB and Morality Shift in hand to go off. More if some rituals are no longer in the library, less if some pieces are in hand.

This is not a very competitive deck as it can be more easily disrupted by things than most combo decks. It is more of a fun thought experiment that sprung from a discussion with Dunebogey regarding "How can I make a puzzle out of killing the whole table using Hidetsugu's Second Rite + Mizzix's Mastery?" It can certainly be challenging to play.

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Plan:

Cast Morality Shift (4RRB Floating)

Flashback Past in Flames (RB Floating)

Flashback Rite of Flame (RRB Floating)

Flashback Dark Ritual (RRBBB Floating)

Generate more mana by flashing back Cabal Ritual, Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, Mana Geyser, and Rain of Filth

(If important combo pieces are in hand, Flashback One with Nothing)

Flashback Yawgmoth's Will

Overload Mizzix's Mastery

On the stack:

Hidetsugu's Second Rite <-- Radiate <-- (Damage spells to get the person at the lowest life total to 10 life. At least one asymmetrical effect or Blood Tithe to keep yourself above 10) <-- Repay in Kind

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Tough cases and possible solutions:

o Blood Artist or similar creatures create a problem with the math if you are using Pox or spells that damage all creatures like Fire Tempest.

If there are no tokens on board, you can cast Leyline of the Void prior to going off with mastery to lock in the life totals.

If the creature is unprotected, you can kill it with Go for the Throat before going off.

If there are no sac outlets on the board, you can do over 30 damage without using a spell that hits creatures with creative uses of the fork effects. A sample 30 damage stack would be Fiery Confluence <- Fork <- Reverberate <- Breath of Malfegor <- Blood Tithe <- Flame Rift

o The lowest life total being under 10 means that you can't put Repay in Kind at the top of the stack. You will need to use spells above repay in kind to kill the lowest player off and base the resulting life total off the next lowest player.

If you are the player under 10, you can use Syphon Soul and Blood Tithe at the top of the stack to get yourself above 10 before the math.

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Easy Mode:

You can add White to the deck to give you access to Blessed Wind which makes the kill certain with a stack of Hidetsugu's Second Rite <- Radiate <- Sorin's Vengeance <- Fork effect targetting Radiate <- Blessed Wind <- Fork effect targetting Radiate

This removes the puzzle aspect of the deck though so it seems less fun to me.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.38