Rakdos EDH

by gamma75 on 10 January 2013

Main Deck (95 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

Idea is to get Rakdos out and use him to play big creatures.

Deck Tags

  • EDH
  • Rakdos
  • Commander
  • Black
  • Red

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Rakdos EDH

You really have the right idea and I think Rakdos is a really cool general, but you're overall card quality in the deck is pretty low. Unless you are playing 1v1 EDH all the time, having your deck curve out at 2 is probably not going to cut it. There are better ways to be able to deal a little damage on command to make sure you can cast Rakdos than loading your deck with subpar burn spells. All of the tiny burn spells that target single creatures and players are really not going to be enough to win you games without some way to abuse them, but even with an Isochron Secptre or something similar, you should consider finding bigger, splashier effects to play. An example, in EDH Syphon Flesh or Fleshebag Marauder is pretty much always better than Doomblade. Shoot even run something like Rakdos Charm just to get some versatility instead of simple burn.

Honestly, I'd think about Winding Canyons or Vedalken Orrery. Giving him flash means that just from the game happening (people will take damage from something) you can cast him.

I'll make this clear, I understand what you want to do, paying a little mana to reduce the cost of your fatty's and cast them at low low prices because of Rakdos' ability, but blowing a card to shave off a little mana cost is a bad idea. Vicious Shadows on the other hand...

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Posted 16 January 2013 at 08:39

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