8-Rakdos

by Phyresis on 08 February 2017

Main Deck (61 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Instants (6)


Enchantments (1)

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Deck Description

The rakdos variant for the 8rack deck. Great for everyone who doesn't want to keep friends.

How to Play

Lavaclaw is my replacement for mutavaults. I do realize that tapped lands make this deck unbearably slow, but in my current meta I can scrape by. It also has the potential for bigger damage.
The whole point of this list is to speed up the rack damage, so Blightning instead of Wrench Mind was an easy choice. In my meta we see a lot of artifacts anyway, so on match two and three Command is a natural sideboard in this spot.
Dakmor and Crime is a staple, but it feels kinda bad... unnessassary sometimes. Might change it out.
Urborg and Funeral charm to swampwalk lavaclaw or nyxathid. Not to mention instant speed to lock out hands on draw step.
Artifact hate on Rack? Switch out for Nyxathid and Waste not.
Rix makes a really great mana dump late game.

Deck Tags

  • Rack
  • Rakdos
  • Discard
  • 8-Rack

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for 8-Rakdos

I'm curious. Has 8 Rack ever tried Whispers of Emrakul in Wrench Mind's slot? With fetch lands, Smallpox and Liliana / Necrogen Mists, getting Delirium shouldn't be too difficult.

Raven's Crime feels like it must remain as once you've locked in, the Crime turns all lands drawn into addition discard keeping the opponent's hand low / empty. The interactions with Dakmor Salvage is cute, but I feel it's unnecessary in here.

I've never seen Dismember have a better home than in 8 Rack. Getting the lock is easy, but you can't afford high mana removal. Quite often that 4 life is well worth it to get rid of the thing beating you down for far more (over time).

I'm surprised to not see Thoughtseize, or at least Inquisition of Kozilek. Thoughtseize I can understand is expensive, but Inquisition of Kozilek is not. In theory, with all the discard effects, the opponent shouldn't reach much higher than 3 mana on board, so picking out the low cost cards will actually help protect you.

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Posted 22 May 2017 at 12:42

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Ive ran dismembers in this deck list and I agree that its a hella badass removal... but does it kill planeswalkers? Inquisition has crossed my mind a lot honestly. Blackmail sits in that slot and it's a toss up for which works better. Now... Whispers... that's a new one and yeah, gonna have to try that. Sounds super legit.

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Posted 23 May 2017 at 01:07

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Random idea. Don't know if it's worth the effort to set up:

Pyromancer Ascension doubles up all your Instants and Sorceries. Once active, this also works nicely with Raven's Crime, {B} and discarding a land to make the opponent discard 2 cards sounds like value to me. Just remember that Retracing the only Raven's Crime in the graveyard won't put a counter on Pyromancer Ascension.

Depending on how often you get yourself Hellbent, Keldon Megaliths could help get a few extra points of damage in.

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Posted 24 May 2017 at 10:52

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Duuuuude. I like this idea way better than Rack of the Loam. I'm going to have to look into this.

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Posted 25 May 2017 at 00:13

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With Browbeat I wont hit hellbent but without it... it was a race of top decking. Idk about that but its worth testing.

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Posted 25 May 2017 at 00:16

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What should I take out for pyromancers? Necrogen? Idk...

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Posted 25 May 2017 at 00:22

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Whispers wasn't as reliable or as fast damage as blightning.

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Posted 25 May 2017 at 00:25

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I can see Whispers being less reliable in a Rakdos build, but might still be worth testing in a mono black build?

Can't really say what to remove for Pyromancer Ascension. Maybe a singleton of each Necrogen Mists; Funeral Charm; and a 3rd different card for 3 Ascension?

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Posted 25 May 2017 at 04:37

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I bet it would be great in monoblack, honestly. I'll have to shuffle stuff around and figure out where to put Pyromancers. I'm stoked to try this out.

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Posted 26 May 2017 at 00:15

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pyromancers didnt work out.

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Posted 21 October 2017 at 18:41

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Oh well, it was worth it to at least try. You live and learn

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Posted 21 October 2017 at 19:01

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Yes, indeed. It was ALL of the overkill. Made a lot of the discard just sit in my hand half the time.

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Posted 21 October 2017 at 20:15

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ha ha, I like it!

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Posted 21 December 2018 at 09:28

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Phyresis why do you have 61 cards?

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Posted 21 December 2018 at 15:33

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And not 60?

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Posted 21 December 2018 at 15:34

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I've always went one more. I know it slightly messes with the curve... But let's call it a nervous twitch.

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Posted 28 November 2020 at 18:48

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