Rakdos, the Muscle

Legendary Creature — Demon Mercenary

Flying, trample

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile cards equal to its converted mana cost/mana value from the top of target player's library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.

Sacrifice another creature: Rakdos, the Muscle gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Dandan	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Judge's Tower	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

Sorin_Markov_1947 on Sorin_Markov_1947

4 weeks ago

Commanders I want to build from Thunder Junction:

Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, Kellan, the Kid, Rakdos, the Muscle, Gisa, the Hellraiser

ThassaUpYo@ssa on Be'Elz A'Boot

1 month ago

Profet93

I made the swap primarily because Rakdos, the Muscle provides additional card advantage for me if I need to fish through my own library or, depending on how things are going with my opponent(s), I can hit another player's library to potentially disrupt someone who may be manipulating their top deck and/or who seems to be on a roll with their draws. I anticipate I'll primarily target myself for additional card access which will most likely lead me to more removal/tutor spells and is why I think the ceiling for the Muscle is much higher than that of the Showstopper.

Cyclonic Rift has always had a seat on the plane, I just swapped card version.

This list is honestly very strong and I've been having a lot of success. It's not quite cEDH, but I'd estimate its power level at around an 8/10. Even when I lose, it's incredibly fun and almost always productive - I never really feel "dead in the water" and seem to always have something I can do.

Profet93 on Be'Elz A'Boot

1 month ago

ThassaUpYo@ssa

I noticed you swapped Rakdos, the Showstopper for Rakdos, the Muscle, cool choice. Do you find yourself needing the "draw" more than the potential removal, or is it a test swap?

Great cyclonic rift inclusion, also a lot of your swaps through the revision seem good from my perspective. Keep it up, let us know how your games go.

EDIT: Thoughts on Kindred Discovery or is it too difficult given it's not a may?

Gleeock on Fuck it, late Outlaw of …

1 month ago

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds is intriguing, I will be curious to see what it looks like to optimize the fine line of running the most upkeep trigger items vs. boosting Obeka.

The "Joins up" enchantments pack a punch, & some of them may be nice low-cost singles to pick up. Annie Joins up is a particularly potent mix between kill spell & triggered ability doubler. My Atla burn deck (dmg doublers/triplers) will go bonkers with that.

Roxanne, Starfall Savant is indeed a "titan" in ability. I may actually consider her for my {RG} commander to helm a deck. I like the ability to take out hatebears, Esper Sentinel, and planeswalkers; all this while ramping is pretty slick. Though I am not much for artifacts or extra combats, which I'm guessing she will naturally lean toward in many decklists.

Rakdos, the Muscle is probably most my speed. But, not sure I have a home for him.

Barron Bertram Greywater Haha, that name. My goodness, I will probably just call him "Barron Taintjuice" ... Makes me wonder if that card designer actually knows what "Gray water" is.

None of the "Face" commanders really do it for me. It seems like they often have conceptual troubles settling on a wedge for an archetype... So, is Jund going to be the land/graveyard colors or is Naya going to be?

One little keyword on the cactusfolk token that changes the game for Yuma though is that reach that little additiion to those tokens is a bit of a game-changer.