Rakdos, Party Animal

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos)

krotash

Creature (42)

• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Dire Fleet Ravager
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Dread Cacodemon
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Goblin Fireslinger
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Lightning-Rig Crew
• 1x Lobber Crew
• 1x Maga, Traitor to Mortals
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Nettle Drone
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Spear Spewer
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Viashino Heretic
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Walking Ballista

Land (36)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Piranha Marsh
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Instant (4)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Terminate

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Flame Rift
• 1x Vandalblast

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Angrath, the Flame-Chained

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Creature (4)

• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Lightning-Rig Crew
• 1x Nullstone Gargoyle
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

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Rakdos, Lord of Riots EDH deck

A pretty fun deck oriented around blowing everyone on the board up. Also partially an Eldrazi tribal because of how well Rakdos synergizes with fully colorless cards.

The basic gameplay it to drop one of our numerous pingers and mana rocks between turns 1-3, then drop papa rakdos on turn 4 (or turn 3 w/ mana rocks). After that there's a couple ways to win:

Doing a bunch of damage to everyone. While not as aggressive as red decks, this deck can manage to do a lot of damage to everyone on the board, though this quickly makes you a significant target.

There are two main infinite combos:

Nettle Drone & Ancestral Statue With Rakdos on the board making the Statue free (or cost 1 after a nettle drone ping, assuming a 4 man group) use the statue to repeatedly bounce itself, untapping nettle drone, and infinitely ping your opponents.

Cloudstone Curio & Eldrazi. Use the Curio to chain bounce your eldrazi back to your hand until you've drawn whatever you want, and destroyed/exiled all of their permanents.

Notes: I know I need more tutors and to cut some of the extraneous cards. I'm working on acquiring better tutors and will update the deck when I can get the more expensive ones.

Cards I want to cut:

Urabrask the Hidden , Garna, the Bloodflame , Neheb, the Eternal . The haste enablers haven't impressed me too much, but they have sometimes been very nice when I can't fully combo off but still want some big swings with my Eldrazi army.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.55
Tokens	City's Blessing, Thopter 1/1 C