Commander - Rakdos, The Bargain Hunter

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Rakdos, The Bargain Hunter

Let's start a riot... at your game table as you lay down card after card for little to no mana. Rakdos, Lord of Riotsimage lets us get great deals on creatures that cost ridiculous amounts of mana, as long as we deal enough damage to the opponents and since it says opponents, we can take advantage of this by hitting all of them at once.

Dealing Damage

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First up is dealing large amounts of damage to your opponents. Cards like Fiery Confluenceimage and Slagstormimage give you bursts of cost reduction, but if you prefer a more consistant damage there are cards like Ill-Gotten Inheritanceimage and Palace Siegeimage which deal damage every turn.

Also, with some creatures that tap to deal damage to each player such as Nettle Droneimage and Thermo-Alchemistimage thrown in for good measure.

Another good way to deal damage is to just hit them in the face... Rakdos does this well especially with the help of Swiftfoot Bootsimage.

Big Boys

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Next we need the big creatures, preferably colorless so we can reduce thier cost to zero, such as Void Winnowerimage who can complete lock opponents decks down if their commander is an even cost, Kozilek, Butcher of Truthimage gives card draw which is appreciated to contiue dumping creatures on the board, and Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hungerimage can desimate your enemies decks. Also included are some huge red and black creatures like Furyborn Hellkiteimage who will always enter with bloodthirst triggered making it a 12/12, Myojin of Night's Reachimage who can make our opponents discard thier entire hand, and Rune-Scarred Demonimage who lets us tutor for what ever card we want preferably one of the colorless creatures since we already payed 2 black mana to cast Rune-Scarred Demon.

Cards with x in their mana cost let some crazy effects happen like Maga, Traitor to Mortalsimage which lets your cost reduction spiral out of control, or Grenzo, Dungeon Wardenimage who lets you cheat out many of the cards in the deck as long as the x cost was high enough.

Walking Ballistaimage, Ugin's Conjurantimage, and Endless Oneimage are in both of these groups, what a bargain!

Fuel for the Fire

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Since we will be able to play our hand out quite quickly we need good ways to reload so to speak.

Underworld Connectionsimage, Phyrexian Arenaimage, Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotzimage and Greedimage will allow us to consistantly keep our hand stocked and ready to go. Erebos, God of the Deadimage and Baleful Forceimage work as both big creatures and consistant card draw. Doom Whispererimage allows us to surviel for the best draw. Finally, Disciple of Bolasimage lets us sacrifice a creature and draw cards equal to its power which will give you a ton of cards and for such a low price, what a deal!

Other Cards

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Then there are a few cards that either fall into both catergories (dealing damage and big creature) or are just wonderfully synergistic.

One being Neheb, the Eternalimage who esentially doubles the effect Rakdos gives, or can help recast Rakdos if he dies to many times.

Next is Sower of Discordimage who is not only a big creature but allows you to greatly increase the damage your "each opponent" spells deal.

Another big Demon boy is Archfiend of Despairimage he doubles the amount of damage we do at the end of the turn so he is not as good for cost reduction but is great for killing the opponent.

Purphoros, God of the Forgeimage is a great card for this deck, he first of all has 6 power which is great for reducing cost, but also deals 2 damage to each opponent whenever we play a creature, and he can buff the huge creatures we already have out with his activated ability.

Liliana's Contractimage gives us an easy route to victory since Rakdos is a demon and we can reduce the other demons costs, also the card draw is very nice.

Feed Back

If you have a card in mind that would work in the deck or a cheaper alternative to one of the cards leave a comment.

 

I hope you have fun coupon shopping with Rakdos!

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Last Updated: 11 Jun 2019
Created: 28 May 2019
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