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Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Creature — Vampire Demon
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Last_Laugh on
Ikra Friqi Shidiqi + Kondo Mondo Buttlink
1 week ago
Fun commanders, I've had them built for a few years now and I have a few suggestions for you. I'll try to keep things budget friendly (besides 1 card) and I'll break it down by category.
Card Draw: Breena, the Demagogue, Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh, Starscream, Power Hungry Flip, Wojek Investigator, Vraska Joins Up, and possibly Sergeant John Benton (I run all these personally).
Defensive: Crackdown may work better than Meekstone here because it's easier for you to get around if you're seeing +1+1 counter effects or 3+ power flyers like Shalai, Voice of Plenty.
The 1 expensive card: Bloodletter of Aclazotz is really really good here.
Anyways, feel free to check out my deck for other ideas. Upvotes on any of my decks are appreciated. Badonkadonk Buttlink Brigade - Ikra / Sidar
Destroyerbirb on
K'rrik Son of Yawgmoth 2.0
1 month ago
For cuts I would recommend:
Professor Onyx - While Liliana's side job is beneficial for society (educators are very important, especially those who help us raise people from the dead), the deck doesn't have a strong spell slinger theme so her static doesnt work, the minus three is not as optimal as it makes itself out to be, and other effects are... not worth the six mana and time required.
Charcoal Diamond - You've got a ridiculous amount of ramp in this deck already, not sure this piece is needed. Plus, with the way K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth works, you want to ramp in colourless more than in black with your artifacts and similar since K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth always pays for black anyways, so Mind Stone just makes Charcoal Diamond look that much more of a downgrade.
Defense Grid - Not really seeing the point. Plus, this is meant to be a casual deck, all this will do is make everyone more upset and make interaction harder.
Saw in Half - It's a fun card not really worth adding.
Meathook Massacre 2 - I have a feeling it's a bit redundant to have both, especially since they both do a bit different things and you've got many tutors. Cutting the second part instead of its original installation would make more sense because this copy does cost a lot for its effect, whereas The Meathook Massacre became so played because it being pretty low costing for everything it does.
Paradise Plume - A lot of mana for its effect, and you have too many ramp cards.
Shared Trauma - Not too sure on this card's inclusion and what it would do.
Chain of Smog - I personally don't think discard cards are very strong in EDH, might be a good cut. I can see this being played against CEDH players and having a big effect, but EDH? Not as convinced.
Grim Tutor - You've got a lot of tutors, you can cut this one.
Final Parting - Same as above.
Diabolic Tutor - You can guess what I've got to say about this one.
Platinum Angel - I think take this one out. You can't pay life below zero so I'm not sure why else this would be in the deck.
Phage the Untouchable - As you said, you'd put it in your maybeboard and have it come out a game or two so you can just say you've killed someone with Phage, but I'd probably just keep it in the maybeboard.
Orcish Bowmasters - What are you playing, CEDH?
Opposition Agent - This is really more a meta suggestion than anything, but you don't verse people with a lot of tutors, you'd be lucky if people run more than one tutor. I'd cut this just from a meta perspective, or at least have it as a maybeboard card.
Doomsday Excruciator - Eh, nah.
Dimir House Guard - It's a sac outlet and a tutor in one, so I see what you're going with, which is why I'm only partially suggesting it as a cut, but also it's not the best at either job.
Chainer, Dementia Master - Not sure I'm feeling Chainer in this deck specifically.
Bloodletter of Aclazotz - Would be a lovely card for our cube, but I think there are already better finishers in this deck.
Asmodeus the Archfiend - Another maybe cut. It's a fun and spicy card, but also you're losing a lot of life for an effect which you do better with other cards in here. You really don't want to have too many cards that do similar things, especially since you've got many tutors and draw cards.
Cabal Stronghold - You've got three basic lands. There is no world in which you could activate this card and get a payoff from it.
Emergence Zone - Playing stuff at instant speed doesn't really help your deck.
Rogue's Passage - Zero use in this deck.
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I also have addition suggestions:
Torment of Hailfire - Not sure why this isn't here.
Swamp - Add one Swamp for every land cut.
NV_1980 on
[2025] Party Hardy with Rakdos! Primer [1.1]
2 months ago
Hi, I love this build; it's obviously something you've been working on for quite a while, considering what you're telling about the deck's origin. Rakdos has long been my favorite Rakdos (pun intended) commander, and some of the cards I've been using (lately) that I didn't find in your build would be examples like:
- Bloodletter of Aclazotz: I know that it's rather expensive, but I can tell from experiencing his impact on the battlefield that he's worth it. He's basically a bad-ass combatant with a stronger version of Wound Reflection incorporated in him.
- Descent into Avernus: great value; especially with Rakdos on the battlefield.
- Neheb, the Eternal: if ANY creature would want to party with the lord of pain, I think it would be this guy. He basically feeds off of the pain that Rakdos requires to show his true potential, and that energy can be put to good use. :)
- Vial Smasher the Fierce: his ability is just about the embodiment of chaos, so sounds very well suited to party with Rakdos.
Keep up the good work and enjoy this build! Ow, and here's mine in case you're interesed: The Portal of Pain.
NV_1980 on
Be'lakor, Blade of the Seraph
3 months ago
You're welcome Vessiliana! Completely understand your reasoning concerning Contract. With regards to Devourer, I kinda understand it too, though I should point out that it's quite likely that he hits the battlefield much earlier than Be'lakor, because of the required mana cost of the latter.
Regarding the more expensive stuff, I was going to bring up cards like Archfiend of Despair/Bloodletter of Aclazotz (both have insane damage potential), Roaming Throne (which is massively beneficial in almost any tribal deck), Valgavoth, Terror Eater (super strong with an excellent theft ability) and Urza's Incubator (another way to make demon-summoning a lot cheaper).
Necramus on
3 months ago
Do you think Bloodletter of Aclazotz is worth?? Double your infect or Gary triggers?
Flarhoon13 on
Kaervek the Merciless, Vampires & Doomsday Demons
7 months ago
May 3, 2024 I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.
May 31
Kaervek the Merciless, Vampires & Doomsday Demons loss 8-8 I went for it but vs two blue decks with open mana and I paid the ultimate price. Had Bloodletter of Aclazotz out, cast Rune-Scarred Demon and got Demonic Consultation since I had Mirror of Fate in hand. Consulted for Fraying Omnipotence but that exiled all but three cards of my deck. Cast a five drop demon but the Fraying Omnipotence ate a counter. Blaine's Blue Sun's Zenith finished me off.
Before I had started this play through of my decks, I had gotten a turn 4 win with Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Fraying Omnipotence against these very same opponents in a game last year, tied for fastest victory of any of my decks. Turn one Sol Ring, turn 2 Demonic Tutor, turn 3 played the tutor target, Bloodletter of Aclazotz and turn 4 Fraying Omnipotence ended the game. Kind of. The table just kept playing out the game so Kurtis could show off Ovika, Enigma Goliath's crazy tricks.
legendofa on Using shrazarad
8 months ago
The only part of it that really affects anything is the "loses half their life" clause, so I personally would lean toward combining it with Wound Reflection or Bloodletter of Aclazotz, and make opponents stake everything on the subgame. But even then, I still have to win the subgame to win the main game, so it's just kind of adding an extra step and taking away reliability.
How do you see using it with mill? I guess mill them down so they start a subgame with a smaller deck. But at that point you might as well just finish milling them instead of chopping at their life.
I can't come up with a way to use it as part of a direct win condition that's not just a gimmick. I'm not saying it can't be fun, if everyone's on board with it. It's one of those Grip of Chaos sort of cards where if everyone just wants to goof off for an evening, it's great. Otherwise, it can get annoying.
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