Scorched Earth

Modern BR (Rakdos) Combo Competitive Land Destruction Midrange Reanimator Tempo

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Land (20)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Mountain
• 2x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Creature (16)

• 4x Fulminator Mage
• 4x Kiln Fiend
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Vexing Devil

Sorcery (12)

• 4x Molten Rain
• 4x Thoughtseize
• 4x Unearth

Instant (13)

• 2x Fatal Push
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Supernatural Stamina
• 3x Thrill of Possibility

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Sideboard

Artifact (6)

• 4x Nihil Spellbomb
• 2x Pithing Needle

Instant (2)

• 2x Fatal Push

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Damnation
• 4x Pillage

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Blood Moon

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Maybeboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Fling
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Rush of Adrenaline
• 1x Smash to Smithereens
• 1x Surgical Extraction

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rain of Gore

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Claim / Fame
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Rite of Consumption
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Thud

Creature (2)

• 1x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 1x Legion Loyalist

Artifact (2)

• 1x Dragon's Claw
• 1x Witchbane Orb

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Rakdos Warfare at its best. This fast Midrange deck thrives on Destruction and Necromancy

Strategy:

• Deploy creatures, empower them through magic and use them in battle
• Revive casualties and press the assault
• Lock out enemy reinforcements/answers by blowing up lands

Creatures:

• Monastery Swiftspear and Kiln Fiend use my casts to power-up themselves
• Vexing Devil is a powerful and cheap creature or source of damage who enjoys being reanimated
• Fulminator Mage is ideally the main target of reanimation, giving me the ability to destroy multiple lands

Non-creature spells:

• Fatal Push kills most enemy creatures in the format
• Lightning Bolt doesn't need introductions
• Thoughtseize disrupts the enemy hand. Very useful to kill a card that would disturb the game-plan
• Molten Rain nukes lands with the bonus of painful fallout if they're non-basic
• Thrill of Possibility refuels hand and can setup a creature to be reanimated later
• Supernatural Stamina is a combat trick that boosts power and immediately reanimates a creature upon death
• Unearth brings back any lost creature directly into the field

Main combos:

• Fulminator Mage + Unearth
• Fulminator Mage + Supernatural Stamina
• Unearth + Vexing Devil
• Supernatural Stamina + Vexing Devil

Sideboard:

• Pillage switches with Molten Rain when there's dangerous artifacts about
• Damnation is a fat board-wipe to use against Tokens and Aggro
• Nihil Spellbomb delays or shuts down opposing graveyard based strategies
• Blood Moon delivers extra Land control
• Pithing Needle neutralizes Planeswalkers, most opposing Graveyard hate spells and many other key cards

To sumarize, I cast creatures, they trade with opposing creatures or spells, my creatures come back while the enemy's don't, some lands blow up during all this and I keep snowballing Tempo advantage until victory. That's the theory at least

Hope you enjoy this deck. I know there's still room for improvement and need your help optimizing the boards. Any suggestions welcome, thank you!

Top Ranked	Achieved #23 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #2 position in Modern 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern BR (Rakdos) 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Combo 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Fulminator Mage + Unearth Fulminator Mage + Supernatural Stamina Unearth + Vexing Devil Supernatural Stamina + Vexing Devil
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	27 - 5 Rares 10 - 6 Uncommons 19 - 4 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	1.56