The Devil Made Me Do It

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BR (Rakdos) Casual Sacrifice

Aldel

Creature (30)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Bloodtracker
• 1x Bone Dragon
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cauldron Familiar
• 1x Desolation Twin
• 1x Dread Wanderer
• 1x Dreadhorde Butcher
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Loyal Apprentice
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Skeletal Vampire
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Void Winnower

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Settle the Score
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Instant (9)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Horizon Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Pyramid of the Pantheon
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Witch's Oven

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Land (36)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 12x Mountain
• 15x Swamp

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Dictate of Erebos

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

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Creature (5)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Instant (2)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Burnt Offering

Artifact (1)

• 1x Thran Dynamo

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Blood for Bones

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

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Hello everyone. I'm brewing this deck around on the least straightforward commanders I've created so far - Valki, God of Lies  . More importantly, though, I'm focusing on using the Tibalt side to push us through on the card draw and disrupt my opponents' strategies by stealing their stuff.

You'll notice a bit of a sacrifice theme going on here and that's because I'm trying to keep my opponents from making any considerable threats by either making them sacrifice with Dictate of Erebos or Plaguecrafter -like cards (Also going for a flavor-friendly strategy. It's not too crazy to think a devil would make his underlings throw themselves in front of an attack for him). I'm also going to have to defend Tibalt a lot so I need to get some value from my creatures dying as much as I can. I'm also including a number of mana ramp cards so I can get Tibalt out as soon as possible before the board gets a little too planeswalker unfriendly. Once I've done all we can with Tibalt (I'm assuming a max of 2 castings), Then I can focus on summoning Valki to disrupt and look at my opponents' hands as they will most likely be holding their best cards in the later game.

So this is what I have so far but if anyone has any recommendations just let me know! Valki's been pretty interesting to build around so I can't wait to see how it holds up in a game later this month.

Notable Combos:

Jokulhaups + Oblivion Sower + Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor

This is very hard to line up but if you cast Jokulhaups to get rid of all creatures (hopefully) and lands, Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor will be safe to use his ult to then exile all the fresh lands that just hit the graveyard. If you manage to have the mana, following it up by casting Oblivion Sower will then push every single land you destroyed and then exiled from a target opponent to your side of the field. It's a lot of work but if you can manage to pull it off, well... GG.

Tergrid, God of Fright + Wheel of Fate Or any kind of wheel effect. All your permanents are belong to us now.

Gameplay Notes:

The high costed Eldrazi are there as a last resort in case it is not feasible to cast Valki. They are beaters within a budget that I can use all that mana this deck generates to good use.

In the early game, if you don't drawn into lands/ramp. It's best to get Valki, God of Lies   as soon as possible to get a creature out and enable some sac'ing. Tibalt can later be cast by using Command Beacon 's effect.

Note to self - replace Mana Crypt and Dictate of Erebos for Everflowing Chalice and Fraying Omnipotence to scale power level down.

Top Ranked	Achieved #19 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #12 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Aristocrats 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Jokulhaups + Oblivion Sower + Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor Tergrid, God of Fright + Wheel of Fate
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, Food, Morph 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Hello, I am stealing your deck. Thanks!