Aclazotz Joins Rakdos Beatdown as a Top-End Threat

Introduction

This is the fifth version of my Rakdos Beatdown deck deploying the best creatures and spells of the Standard format, with a focus on providing haste to big flying creatures, such as Archfiend of the Dross and Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead, with Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher, quickly dealing huge amounts of unblockable damage to the opponent.

In this version, I removed Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor from the deck and added Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead. The deck is essentially the same as but Bonehoard Dracosaur replaced with Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead and somewhat changed mana base. The removal of Bonehoard Dracosaur allows one to play with just 1 Mountain, because no card requires two red mana. I also changed Mishra's Foundry into Mirrex, which can help you casting your spells the turn it enters the battlefield. It's also great for generating a multitude of tokens in the late game.

Format

• The deck is for the Standard format with Murders at Karlov Manor being the last legal set.
• The deck is probably Tier 1 or Tier 1.5 caliber.
• The deck can be played in both Bo1 and Bo3.
• The deck is pretty fast, and thus it's suitable for quickly grinding a large number of wins in the MTG Arena ladder.

Source

This is my own brew.

Previous Versions

Mana Base Statistics

• Total of 26 lands
• 19 lands produce black mana
• 16 lands produce red mana
• 5 lands may produce colored mana but are counted here as producing colorless mana

Starting Hand Probabilities

Bo3 (No Hand Smoothing)

• At least two lands: 89.6 %
• 2–5 lands: 87.4 %
• At least 1 black mana: 94.2 %
• At least 2 black mana: 72.1 %
• At least 1 red mana: 90.1 %

Bo1 (Hand Smoothing)

Ranked Queue (Best of 2 Hands)

Hand smoothing in the ranked queue takes the best of 2 different starting hands (of 2 different deck shuffles).

• 2–5 lands: 98.4 % (approximately)

Play Queue (Best of 3 Hands)

Hand smoothing in the play queue takes the best of 3 different starting hands (of 3 different deck shuffles).

• 2–5 lands: 99.8 % (approximately)

Land Probabilities

Probabilities are for on the play / on the draw.

Land Count

With Any Starting Hand

• At least 3 lands by turn 3: 84.6 % / 90.2 %
• At least 4 lands by turn 4: 71.6 % / 80.2 %
• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 56.7% / 67.2 %

With 2-Land Starting Hand

• At least 3 lands by turn 3: 70.5 % / 84.4 %
• At least 4 lands by turn 4: 42.8 % / 61.9 %
• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 23.7 % / 40.9 %

With 3-Land Starting Hand

• At least 4 lands by turn 4: 82.7 % / 90.6 %
• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 58.8 % / 73.1 %

With 4-Land Starting Hand

• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 89.3 % / 94.1 %

Color Count

These probabilities are counted as Cavern of Souls and Mirrex providing colorless mana.

With Any Starting Hand

• At least 2 black mana by turn 3: 85.4 % / 89.7 %
• At least 2 black mana by turn 4: 89.7 % / 92.9 %
• At least 1 red mana by turn 2: 93.1 % / 95.2 %
• At least 1 red mana by turn 3: 95.2 % / 96.7 %

With 1-Black-Mana Starting Hand

• At least 2 black mana by turn 3: 56.8 % / 72.1 %
• At least 2 black mana by turn 4: 72.1 % / 82.1 %

Creature Statistics

• Total of 26 creatures
• 8 Vampires
• 6 Bats
• 6 Humans
• 6 Phyrexians

Change Log

28th March, 2024

Main Deck

• +2 Restless Vents
• -2 Swamp

Sideboard

• +3 Hidetsugu Consumes All // Vessel of the All-Consuming
• +2 Liliana of the Veil
• -3 Path of Peril
• -2 Urabrask's Forge