Gix's Command Enters the Deck to Wreck Havoc with Archfiend of the Dross

Introduction

This is the sixth version of my Rakdos Beatdown deck deploying the best creatures and spells of the Standard format, with a focus on providing haste to Archfiend of the Dross with Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher, quickly dealing huge amounts of unblockable damage to the opponent.

In this version, I removed Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead from the deck, which was added there in the previous version. Instead, I added Gix's Command, which combos very well with Archfiend of the Dross.

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

• Rakdos Beatdown v5
• Rakdos Beatdown v4 (MKM)
• Rakdos Beatdown v3 (LCI)
• Rakdos Haste Flyer Beatdown v2 (LCI)
• Rakdos Haste Flyer Beatdown (LCI)

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 23 creatures
• 8 Vampires
• 4 Bats
• 5 Humans
• 6 Phyrexians