Brimstone, also known as sulfur, is a symbolic representation of divine judgement and damnation. It is also associated with demons and dragons.
The idea of this semi-competitive deck is to control the early game with hand disruption and creature removal, and finish it with draconian air beating.
I also wanted to use the "dragon matters" spells that the DTK set brought. On their own, they are subpar. But paired with dragons (and we have 10, so they will proc its full effect most of the time), they are pretty OP.
I tried other color combinations, but rakdos being red offered the best dragons, so here we are.
Dragonlord Kolaghan, besides being the thematic star of the deck, can lock down the enemy on the late game. With so much hand disruption and killing spells, the opponent's graveyard should be full of cards.
Night's Whisper and Bedlam Reveler for card draw. One will usually play the latter by turn 5-6, when your hand is running out and you have enough instants and soreceries in your GY to cast it for 2-3 mana. It can also be recovered from the GY with Kolaghan's Command to refuel your hand once again.
This deck has in-built counters against somme of the common archetypes in the meta:
Against GY decks, like dredge, we have Dragonlord Kolaghan and Anger of the Gods.
Vs tokens, Anger of the Gods and Thundermaw Hellkite (lingering souls).
Foul-Tongue Invocation and Anger of the Gods vs bogles/hexproof.
Kolaghan's Command is a great all-around tool, granting us artifact removal, another discard and an option to recover our creatures from the GY.
Weakness:
Rakdos colors has literally 0 removal against enchantments. So one must use hand disruption to fight them before they hit the board. Leyline of Sanctity can slow us down, but we still have massive dragons and demons to keep swinging.
Sideboard (need help. the current one is a prototype):
Dragon's Claw: Against RDW. The fact that we also use red doubles its efficiency.
Rain of Gore: Against soul sisters and infinite, bogles and infinite life combos.
Dreadbore: against creaturless control and superfriends.
Shattering Spree: Vs affinity.
Crumble to Dust / Molten Rain: vs Tron. Blood Moon might be more efficient, but it is a hella lot more expensive. And Tron decks are prepared for it.
Also, i am aware that the despise and duress can be replaced by a playset of Inquisition of Kozilek to be more effective in modern, but for thematical, budget and preferential reasons, i chose not to.
