Xantcha: Group Slug X

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) Competitive Group Slug Stax

KronkTheFish

Artifact (23)

• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Locket
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Thran Turbine
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Victory Chimes
• 1x Voyager Staff
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Breath of Darigaaz
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

Land (34)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Creature (9)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dwarven Blastminer
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Maralen of the Mornsong
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Treasure Nabber

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Pain Magnification
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Soul Channeling
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Theater of Horrors
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Words of Waste
• 1x Wound Reflection

Instant (5)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Terminate

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Mana Geyser

Creature (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Oppression

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tibalt, Rakish Instigator

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“If fear is the only tool you have left, then you’ll never control me.” —Xantcha, to Gix

Ever since Xantcha was spoiled I've been absolutely ENAMORED by her. I started playing Magic around Core Set '14 when the Xbox video game came out so I never knew anything about her, Dominaria, the Weatherlight saga, or Phyrexia. Upon seeing her effect I became inspired to read her lore and, most importantly, build her as a Rakdos commander! However, she always seemed to fall into this strange niche akin to Zedruu in that most lists at the time simply liked to give opponents harmful things and hope for the best, and I'd like to think she's better than that.

Enter: Xantcha Group Slug

The goal of this deck is to give away Xantcha to our opponents early game to establish a draw engine whilst ramping with mana rocks to utilize her ability, protect Xantcha, punish other people for using her ability and make the effect more one-sided for us by stripping their hands/stealing other people's good stuff/denying resources, then eventually generating enough mana to kill with large X cost damage spells like Exsanguinate and Comet Storm

~~~WARNING: This deck is meant to be relatively competitive while not breaking the bank. Some of the more expensive cards here I own personally but can mostly be replaced by cheaper cards with similar effects~~~

Mana Rocks

We run a large amount of mana rocks, for a couple of reasons:

1. Rakdos colors often has a hard time with ramping and fixing so we use rocks like Rakdos Signet and Rakdos Locket to solve that problem.

2. Xantcha's ability doesn't have a color requirement so large mana rocks like Thran Dynamo , Dreamstone Hedron , and Blinkmoth Urn have a huge payoff late-game.

3. We are going to run some land disruption effects (such as Winter Orb and Dwarven Blastminer ) to ensure that we get the most Xantcha triggers. Anyone who has seen my Ayula deck might guess that this is my personal favorite component!

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Ayula, Ravager of Lands

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Insider Secrets

Let's be honest with ourselves here: no one likes a double agent. It's far too confusing to keep track of who double-crossed who and no matter who benefits, no one's gonna be okay with a knife in the back. For that reason alone we have to make sure Xantcha stays safe out on the front lines!

Enchantments like Blessing of Leeches and Soul Channeling allow us to regenerate her at a measly cost.

We can also help out Xantcha with Voyager Staff , Key to the City and Mystifying Maze to keep her out of harm's during combat or the (often unavoidable) spot removal levied at her face.

We can also reanimate her with Profane Command if needs be.

Anything You Can Do I WILL Do Better

This section is for all the cards that will make Xantcha's effect a little less universal.

Worse for Them

We can't have other players have as much fun as we're having, which is why Harsh Mentor , Sower of Discord , and Underworld Dreams are going to punish opponents for using her effect to draw cards, while cards like Furnace of Rath and Dictate of the Twin Gods hurt Xantcha's host twofold. Even cards like War's Toll makes it a requirement for opponents to commit fully to the cause of Xantcha. Oh, and Sire Of Insanity forces their hand and use our commander: literally.

Better for Us

Exquisite Blood allows us to gain easy life off her activations, Heartstone (besides being a major flavor win) makes it easier for everyone to activate Xantcha so it gives others incentive to do so, Thran Turbine generates Xantcha mana only for us, Treasure Nabber lets us take any other rocks that opponents would use for mana, Curse of Opulence gives us gold off of Xantcha's attack trigger and Maralen of the Mornsong makes it impossible for opponents to even draw off of Xantcha, turning her into an Aura Curse that's lets us sink excess mana into her for incremental damage.

Finish Him!

As this deck is more based upon attrition there are few flashy kills, but late game mana sinks like Exsanguinate and Starstorm , as well as the damage doubling enchantments mentioned in the previous section should be enough to win out the game.

Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated as I want to make Xantcha work as consistently as possible!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Gold, Morph 2/2 C