Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Commander / EDH

onyxleopard

Instant (2)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Rakdos Charm

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Words of War
• 1x Wound Reflection

Artifact (11)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Creature (35)

• 1x Abyssal Nocturnus
• 1x Anger
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bane of the Living
• 1x Blazing Specter
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Deathbringer Thoctar
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Grotesque Hybrid
• 1x Hooded Horror
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (38)

• 1x Barbarian Ring
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Ghitu Encampment
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Winding Canyons

Commander (1)

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I like the way this deck plays quite a bit, but its quite difficult to pilot. Knowing when to wheel and how to best make use of the cost reduction from Rakdos takes some practice, but once you get the flow of things, you can do some terribly powerful plays. Abusing Kuldotha Forgemaster, Goblin Welder, Scarecrone, and Necrotic Ooze lets you do some pretty broken recursion. Sire Of Insanity plus Ensnaring Bridge is always fun, and Silent Arbiter and Platinum Angel round out the pillow-forty aspects of the deck. Urabrask the Hidden and Anger help keep your heavily discounted critters hasty. There are a couple sub-themes, one of which is abusing damage trigger creatures like Dragon Mage, Balefire Dragon, Deathbringer Thoctar, and Blazing Specter or anything equipped with Sword of Light and Shadow with synergies like Basilisk Collar and Fireshrieker. The discard/wheel of pain sub-theme features Memory Jar, Wheel of Fortune, Reforge the Soul, Spiteful Visions, Liliana's Caress, Bloodchief Ascension, and Megrim. To ensure that Rakdos can be cast reliably there are numerous effects like Plague Spitter, Stuffy Doll, Crypt Ghast (for extort), Words of War, Leechridden Swamp, and Rakdos Charm. Finally there\s a complement of life-gain in Blood Artist/Falkenrath Noble, Wurmcoil Engine, Kokusho, the Evening Star and Polluted Bonds, to keep the life total above zero.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.94
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink