Rakdos, Lord of Artifacts

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Sacrifice

Phillthethrill

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Gruesome Slaughter

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Molten Nursery

Artifact (29)

• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Brawler's Plate
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fleetfeather Sandals
• 1x Golem's Heart
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Investigator's Journal
• 1x Jayemdae Tome
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Cylix
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Oracle's Vault
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Rakdos Locket
• 1x Rhonas's Monument
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Skeleton Shard
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul Conduit
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Spinning Wheel
• 1x Tapestry of the Ages
• 1x Thran Turbine
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Creature (35)

• 1x Accomplished Automaton
• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Barricade Breaker
• 1x Beast of Burden
• 1x Bosh, Iron Golem
• 1x Bronze Walrus
• 1x Clockwork Gnomes
• 1x Colossus of Sardia
• 1x Dominator Drone
• 1x Flayer Drone
• 1x Foreboding Statue  ^Flip
• 1x Gravestone Strider
• 1x Guardians of Koilos
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Maelstrom Colossus
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Nettle Drone
• 1x Opaline Unicorn
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Perilous Myr
• 1x Prismite
• 1x Prizefighter Construct
• 1x Ruin Processor
• 1x Salvaged Manaworker
• 1x Scarecrow Guide
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Terror Ballista
• 1x Treasure Keeper
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher
• 1x Workshop Assistant

Land (34)

• 1x Archway Commons
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Cave of Temptation
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Grotto
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1x Guildmages' Forum
• 1x Hall of Oracles
• 1x Hall of Tagsin
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Maze of Shadows
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 1x Painted Bluffs
• 1x Public Thoroughfare
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shimmerdrift Vale
• 1x Shimmering Grotto
• 1x Stensia Bloodhall
• 1x Study Hall
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Uncharted Haven
• 1x Underdark Rift
• 1x Unknown Shores
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Artifact (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Forsaken Monument

Creature (4)

• 1x Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
• 1x Mycosynth Golem
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Walking Ballista

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This started out as a different deck all together.

Original version, based on lots of little pains can be found here. Rakdos, Lord of Little Pains. (3.0)

I have always wanted to build an artifact deck, but never had the catalyst before. Once I discovered the idea of casting crazy amounts of artifact creatures for cheap as free using Rakdos, Lord of Riots I was hooked.

So now it's gonna be 2 different decks. The pain one might get pared down to a 60 with focus on the rack,thumb screws, etc. Not sure yet.

So what we have here is just an Artifact/colorless deck. With all the cards I bought for the other version, and then just all my most fun artifacts.

Some cards in here I've never really used before, so that's exciting too.

Get out artifacts, do some damage, bring out Rakdos, do increasing ammounts of damage, drop more and more free artifact creatures.

Use extra mana for utilities, card draw and tutoring.

There are a few different ways this can play.

1) An artifact creature swarm that builds as mana becomes available. Behaving as a stompy, overwhelm with power beat down.

2) Get in good groove with Rakdos, and get the right cards, you can just drop a few big bashers all at once and Smash. Works best with Hammer of Purphoros on the field.

3) A fun hold over from the original idea. Which is why there is still this vestigial ammount of colour.

Using Flayer Drone, Molten Nursery, Nettle Drone Lots of little damage over and over with Rakdos free plays. Ramp it up or bring someone to an emd with a Stuffy Doll and Gruesome Slaughter

The dream. Which can be built with a couple of tutors like: Planar Bridge, Planar Portal, Ring of Three Wishes

Ping with Nettle, up to 3 cmc artifact creatures now drop for free with Rakdos. (In a pod of course) Drop somthing cheap, deal a couple more damage with the other 2 ETBs, untap, repeat until hand is empty. Use all the saved mana on card draw and tutors, keep dropping little silver shocks.

Want to really have some fun? Lay down the very interesting Noetic Scales for a little bit of control and chaos.

Help clear the board of some threats.

Now I have a mechanical army that did a bunch of damage on arrival. Then when my turn swings around, they all go back to my had, allowing me to repeat the entire ETB circus. You know, if the other 3 players don't mess it up of course.

Use card draw: Bag of Holding, Investigator's Journal, Jayemdae Tome, Oracle's Vault, Tapestry of the Ages to feed the drops.

The two monuments I have, while not using thier first ability. The second on each can really pay off. Bontu's Monument for some life gain and extra damage to make those creatures cheaper anyway and Rhonas's Monument letting me beef up others already on the field or themselves when they have haste.

**DISCLAIMER HERE: This is so far 100% unplayed. Just my own play testing. Obviously there is plenty of room for improvement. Literally just upgrading to different artifacts that fill the same roles, but better. In fact i have marked many of them for eventual replacement. There are plenty of amazing upgrades out there but I'm also super duper cheap...and broke. s SO I'm not planning on dropping mad money on this. A few choice cards eventually, but even the splurge will be on the cheaper side.

Wish list is a lot of my maybe board. Most of which are beyond what I want to spend on single cards.

Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter, Darksteel Forge, Mycosynth Golem , Walking Ballista, Aetherflux Reservoir

Though I will probably get myself a Forsaken Monument

Things I've noticed so far. It is on the very low side. It's pretty slow to get going. But once it gets going, mana is never a problem. Never have trouble using the expensive tutors or card draw. Try to make up for the deficit with rocks and filters, but that only goes so far.

The recursion I have going seems to work pretty well. Even if its just bouncing something to drop it again. If it has a worthwhile ETB, why not.

Date added	1 month
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 33 - 0 Uncommons 42 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.72
Tokens	Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Powerstone