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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Bedevil
Instant
Destroy target artifact, creature or planeswalker.
Optimator on
3 months ago
If you like Rakdos dragons, which is a very fun color pair for them, you may want to check out Rivaz of the Claw as a commander. Comes out a lot earlier and can get you to your dragons sooner, along with some recursion. The mass Haste of your current commander is super convenient for dragon decks, though. If you switched commanders, you might want another effect or two that give haste. Lightning Greaves is classic. Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind is cute and could be an upgrade over another mana rock. Even the humble Fervor is playable in big-creature decks.
You have a great amount of ramp, but you may still want two more lands or two cheap (1 or 2 mana) draw spells, with such a high average CMC for the deck. For versatility, you could do two MDFCs like Shatterskull Smashing and Agadeem's Awakening for instance. Fell the Profane is good, Malakir Rebirth is good, Boggart Trawler could sneak in some graveyard hate, Kazuul's Fury could be cute and steal a game, Bloodsoaked Insight is decent in big-mana decks. Lands like Bonders' Enclave aren't amazing but can be nice in big-creature decks that make good mana (in a pinch).
Howling Mine could be upgraded to Palantir of Orthanc for safer card-draw. has no shortage of good draw spells these days; cheap stuff like Night's Whisper and Sign in Blood can get you your earlier land drops for more consistency. I kind of like stuff like Ancient Craving and Damnable Pact in decks that get a lot of mana. Later in the game, stuff like Ambition's Cost or Seize the Spotlight or Syphon Mind could allow you a partial refill along with playing a second spell played from the new cards. "draw three/draw four" spells are underrated IMO. Depends on the deck.
Some people swear by lots of cheap draw cards, some prefer big-time hand-refillers, and some only like incremental draw like Phyrexian Arena and Outpost Siege. It depends on a lot of deck-building factors as well as personal taste. I kind of like effects like Phyrexian Arena because it could come out early, before all the big dragons. Then again, Phyrexian Arena feels way worse on turn 12 than Ancient Craving. They all have their place.
Big scary dragons tempt boardwipes a lot. It's the psychology of Commander. In big-creature decks that can't prevent wraths (An Offer You Can't Refuse) or make all your creatures resist them (Heroic Intervention/Dawn's Truce), I am a big fan of mass-reanimation effects like Haunting Voyage, Rise of the Dark Realms, Behold the Sinister Six!, and Bloodline Bidding. Could be worth considering running a silver-bullet copy of one of those. Makes mass-haste effects real nice.
Personally, I don't love Planeswalkers in big-creature decks. I feel like I always want to attack with the big guys so it's hard to defend the Planeswalkers. I have a Saheeli, the Gifted
deck (Junk in the Trunk) and it's pretty easy to protect her with all the thopters and servos. In my experience, opponents like to attack open Planeswalkers for the value, even if they aren't huge threats.
In big-mana decks, I actually still really like In Garruk's Wake. Big shout-out for you running Cut / Ribbons. Love that card. All is Dust could be nice since you have so many strong artifacts. It's nice to punish a boardwipe with another, bigger boardwipe. Bedevil is a potential upgrade over some of your other removal. Be sure to note Baleful Mastery too. Soul Shatter is better than things like Murder. Untimely Malfunction does double-duty as removal. No Mercy is nice in big-creature decks as well. Mudslide is cute in dragon decks.
trippy_mcfly on
Cumly Cube
1 year ago
Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4! Two months ago, Cumly Cube was updated to Cumly Cube 1.3, which was touted as balanced and without any notable flaws. There is no more insidious poison than hubris! Many cards remained that were too strong, or close to unplayable. Many archetypes existed in the cube but had too little support to ever be worth drafting. Many cards failed to fit the ethos of Cumly Cube. With 89 more cuts and adds, I am now pleased to announce that, this time, Cumly Cube has reached a final form! Perhaps a few cards are still too strong, too weak, or out of place, but the vast majority of the draft pool is now in an acceptable state. Any further changes to Cumly Cube 1 will exist as minor updates, swapping out only a few cards at a time. This means that there will never be a Cumly Cube 1.5, only 1.4.1, 1.4.2, etc.
Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:
REMOVED:
ARTIFACT
- Basilisk Collar: equipment is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Hedron Archive
: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Diamond: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Opal: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Tantalite: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Sensei's Divining Top:cut to weaken the artifact archetype
CREATURE
- Academy Manufactor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Archfiend of Spite: madness is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Arsenal Thresher: too weak
- Augmenting Automaton: too weak
- Autonomous Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Baleful Force: too weak
- Battleground Geist: cut for a better Spirit card
- Belligerent Hatchling: too weak
- Bloodpyre Elemental: too generic of a red card
- Bloom Hulk: there are better proliferate engines available in Cumly Cube
- Copperhorn Scout: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Crosis, the Purger: too annoying to play against
- Deathrite Shaman: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Deus of Calamity: too weak
- Dutiful Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Dwynen's Elite: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Emperor's Vanguard: cut to weaken green
- Farhaven Elf: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Fear of Exposure: cut to weaken green
- Fertilid: cut to weaken green
- Galazeth Prismari: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Geyserfield Stalker: too weak
- Greater Gargadon: suspend is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Hallowed Priest: cut for an identical card to support the Cat creature type
- Heedless One: cut for a similar card to better support the Elf creature type
- Hematite Golem: too weak
- Hunted Horror: too weak
- Impetuous Devils: too generic of a red card
- Jeskai Student: too weak
- Junktroller: too weak
- Lashweed Lurker: emerge is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Llanowar Visionary: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Lodestone Golem: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
- Lunar Avenger: too weak
- Maze Behemoth: cut to weaken green
- Mishra's Self-Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Morselhoarder: too weak
- Night Incarnate: too generic of a black card
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil: cut to weaken the Elemental creature type
- Phantom Nishoba: too weak
- Quirion Ranger: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Scalding Devil: cut to make room for more interesting Devil creatures
- Self-Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Seton, Krosan Protector: cut to weaken green
- Soul of Zendikar: cut to weaken green
- Teferi's Sentinel: too weak
- Thought Monitor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell: too generic of a red card
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre: cut to make room for more balanced Eldrazi creatures
- Walking Ballista: cut to remove an infinite combo payoff accessible from the Cumly Zone
ENCHANTMENT
- Aura Shards: too powerful
- Blood Moon: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
- Impending Disaster: too weak
- In Bolas's Clutches: cut for a similar but more expensive version of this effect
- Night Soil: cut due to the presence of two other very similar cards
- Revel in Riches: too powerful
- Urban Utopia: cut to weaken green
LAND
- Ancient Tomb: too powerful
- Flagstones of Trokair: too weak
- Mishra's Workshop: too powerful
- Urza's Saga: too powerful
INSTANT
- Accelerate: too generic of a red card
- Bedevil: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Fading Hope: too generic of a blue card
- Fissure: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Fracture: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Frazzle: too generic of a blue card
- Inside Out: too weak
- Lens Flare: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Schismotivate: too weak
- Seize the Initiative: too weak
- Volt Charge: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
PLANESWALKER
- Karn Liberated: too generic and powerful of a draft pick
- Nissa of Shadowed Boughs: animating lands is not part of Cumly Cube 1
SORCERY
- Broken Bond: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Chain Reaction: too generic of a red card
- False Dawn: too weak
- Grim Tutor: too powerful
- Ice Storm: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Lava Flow: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Sinkhole: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Tezzeret's Gambit: too powerful
- Wildfire: too generic of a red card
ADDED:
ARTIFACT
- Banner of Kinship: encourages building around creature types
- Conduit of Worlds: supports graveyard synergies
- Pillar of Origins: encourages building around creature types
CREATURE
- Aetherjacket: supports the Thopter creature type
- Ajani's Pridemate: replaces Hallowed Priest to support the Cat creature type and lifegain synergies
- Akroan Conscriptor: supports spellslinger synergies
- Alibou, Ancient Witness: supports the Golem creature type and other artifact decks
- Ancient Cellarspawn: supports the Demon, Horror, and Nightmare creature types
- Angelic Aberration: supports the Angel and Eldrazi creature types
- Axgard Artisan: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Bloodwater Entity: supports spellslinger synergies
- Brass Herald: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
- Campus Guide: supports the Golem creature type
- Chief of the Foundry: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks
- Chrome Courier: supports the Thopter creature type
- Cursed Wombat: supports the Nightmare creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
- Darksteel Colossus: supports the Golem creature type
- Duergar Hedge-Mage: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Eidolon of Blossoms: supports the enchantment archetype
- Endbringer: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Essence Depleter: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Gimli, Mournful Avenger: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Gishath, Sun's Avatar: supports the Dinosaur creature type
- Herald of Slaanesh: supports the Demon creature type
- Hunting Velociraptor: supports the Dinosaur creature type
- Immaculate Magistrate: replaces Heedless One to support the Elf creature type
- It That Heralds the End: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Kozilek's Channeler: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Mayhem Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Patrician Geist: replaces Battleground Geist to support the Spirit creature type
- Petravark: supports the Beast creature type
- Pillardrop Warden: supports the Dwarf and Spirit creature types
- Precursor Golem: supports the Golem creature type
- Prosperous Pirates: supports the Pirate creature type
- Quandrix Pledgemage: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Roaming Throne: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
- Rootwater Hunter: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Shambling Suit: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks as well as enchantment decks
- Shantotto, Tactician Magician: supports the Dwarf creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Smokebraider: supports the Elemental creature type
- Solarion: supports the Construct creature type
- Species Specialist: encourages building around creature types
- Squealing Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma: supports the Beast and Nightmare creature types
- The Balrog of Moria: supports the Demon creature type
- The Lady of Otaria: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Three Tree Mascot: adds mana fixing and encourages building around creature types
- Titans' Vanguard: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Torch Fiend: supports the Devil creature type
- Ulamog's Dreadsire: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Vengeful Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Venomcrawler: supports the Demon creature type
- Wavecrash Triton: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Zara, Renegade Recruiter: supports the Pirate creature type
ENCHANTMENT
- Destructive Flow: offers a land destruction engine that can provide a large advantage in some decks
- Efficient Construction: supports the Thopter creature type
- Keldon Twilight: offers a creature destruction engine for aggressive decks
- Lay Claim: replaces In Bolas's Clutches as a more expensive control spell
- Might Makes Right: encourages large creatures and can be used in conjunction with sacrifice synergies as a creature destruction engine
- Porphyry Nodes: offers a creature destruction engine for slower decks
- Retreat to Kazandu: supports landfall synergies
- Shivan Harvest: offers a land destruction engine and supports sacrifice synergies
- Sunken Hope: offers a creature bounce engine for slower decks
- Whirlwind of Thought: supports spellslinger synergies
LAND
- Foundry of the Consuls: supports the Thopter creature type
INSTANT
- Atarka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Aura Mutation: quite similar to Artifact Mutation
- Brokers Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Cabaretti Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Dromoka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Kolaghan's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Lorehold Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Maestros Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Maestros Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Obscura Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Obscura Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Ojutai's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Pulse of the Fields: supports lifegain synergies
- Quandrix Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Riveteers Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Silumgar's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Silverquill Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Siren's Ruse: supports the Pirate creature type and blink synergies
PLANESWALKER
- Saheeli, Filigree Master: supports the Thopter creature type
- Vraska, Golgari Queen: supports sacrifice synergies
SORCERY
- Renegade Tactics: replaces Accelerate as a less typical red card
- Roar of the Crowd: encourages building around creature types
- Temporary Insanity: stealing creatures is a small but important part of Cumly Cube
- Witherbloom Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
Czarnian90 on
Hellegion, Shadows and Flames (Raphael)
1 year ago
Another small update to the deck. Once again, more big black demons are leaving. This time it really hurts, as these are strong cards that have worked quite well. However, I often find myself holding too many of them in hand, and the new cards offer slightly more support.
Demon of Fate's Design is excellent and its abilities can be very helpful. But this time I went for the more manageable mana cost of Doom Whisperer.
More mana reduction comes with the replacement of Rune-Scarred Demon by Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. It's cheaper and a very strong card. The bigger demon had great synergy with fetching Balrog, Rakdos, or Dreadfeast Demon to hand. Still, Ob Nixilis is more playable and better fits the theme.
The next two changes might seem unbalanced. Two large and powerful demons are being replaced by support spells. In both cases, the goal is to bring more stability to the deck, and if I have to cut something, it's the higher-mana black demons.
Eater of Hope and Bringer of the Last Gift make way for Bedevil and Rakdos Keyrune. Removal and mana ramp are always needed. While Eater of Hope is a solid removal option with some resilience and the ability to trigger sacrifice effects, it’s still quite slow to cast in this deck. Bringer of the Last Gift is ultimate and fun, but the deck needs some simplification. There are still enough powerful cards. Rakdos Keyrune is a bit slower, but it can also bring a body to the field for damage or sacrifice fodder.
Optimator on
Kill The Poor
1 year ago
Amuneth on
The Dark Lord Rises
1 year ago
Replacements from Precon
Mountain => Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
Boon of the Wish-Giver => March from the Black Gate
Deep Analysis => Call of the Ring
Goblin Dark-Dwellers => Dimir Signet
Goblin Cratermaker => Izzet Signet
Guttersnipe => Mauhur, Uruk-hai Captain
Inferno Titan => Rakdos Signet
Monstrosity of the Lake => Spiteful Banditry
Siege-Gang Commander => The Balrog, Durin's Bane
Summons of Saruman => Chromatic Lantern
Troll of Khazad-dum => Sauron, the Dark Lord
Raven_of_Arella on
Risk of Rakdos
2 years ago
Great looking rakdos deck Ub3r_Shadow! I love the rakdos cards and playstyle! I haven't built a full Rakdos carnage deck yet but you are definitely inspiring me to go make one! After looking through the deck some cards and pet cards I think you may enjoy are: Enchantments: Spiteful Visions and Dying Wish Sorceries: Tyrannize, Feed the Swarm, and Dreadbore Instants: Showstopper, Bedevil, and Hellish Rebuke
Headers13 on
Die By Sacrificing
2 years ago
Crow_Umbra on
Ave, True to Caesar
2 years ago
Generally speaking, I think Caesar and token Isshin lists will end up having a lot of similarities. In looking at your list, I have a few suggestions:
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I think it would be worth it to add some more board protection like Reconnaissance, Dolmen Gate, and Iroas, God of Victory. Having an instant speed protection option or two like Unbreakable Formation, Clever Concealment, Scapegoat, or Teferi's Protection are all helpful for dodging board wipes. These type of go-wide aggro strats thrive on maintaining as much of their board presence in tact for momentum.
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Mentor of the Meek could potentially be swapped with Chivalric Alliance as another draw option. Similarly, you could swap a land for Minas Tirith as another draw option.
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Speaking of lands, Vault of the Archangel could be helpful to have for its keyword anthems. It can be used on those big aggro swings, or to threaten against crack back, if you left blockers up. Similarly, Ankle Shanker can spice up those swings.
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Breath of Fury could open up some combo potential, especially with how many different effects you have that produce tokens on attack.
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I'd recommend giving Flowering of the White Tree a look as an anthem and protection piece.
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It could be worth swapping out Bedevil for either Stroke of Midnight or Anguished Unmaking as more versatile options at the same cmc, and aren't as color cost intensive.
I hope these suggestions are helpful. Caesar is likely going to find a home in my Isshin deck, come next March. I'm hoping we get a decent NCR Ranger in the precon.
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