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Challenge the Stats – Rakdos, Lord of Riots - Rakdos Pain
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Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast Rakdos, Lord of Riots unless an opponent lost life this turn. Flying, trample Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Creature
Rakdos, Lord of Riots (rtr) 187

Commander

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Artifacts

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Coldsteel Heart

Coldsteel Heart enters tapped. As Coldsteel Heart enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Coldsteel Heart (j22) 94
Cryptolith Fragment

Artifact
Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Star Compass

Star Compass enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Artifact
Star Compass (ima) 229
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (moc) 389

Artifacts

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Creatures

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Akoum Warrior

Creature
Akoum Warrior // Akoum Teeth (znr) 134Akoum Warrior // Akoum Teeth (znr) 134
Anger

Haste As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (afc) 113
Archfiend of Despair

Flying Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Archfiend of Despair (bbd) 44
Artisan of Kozilek

When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)

Creature
Artisan of Kozilek (ncc) 191
Blackbloom Rogue

Creature
Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog (znr) 91Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog (znr) 91
Breaker of Armies

All creatures able to block Breaker of Armies do so.

Creature
Breaker of Armies (plst) BFZ-3
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (moc) 351
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (mh2) 289
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh

Creature
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame (ori) 135Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame (ori) 135
Combustible Gearhulk

First strike When Combustible Gearhulk enters, target opponent may have you draw three cards. If the player doesn't, you mill three cards, then Combustible Gearhulk deals damage to that player equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Creature Artifact
Combustible Gearhulk (scd) 128
Conduit of Ruin

When you cast this spell, you may search your library for a colorless creature card with mana value 7 or greater, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast.

Creature
Conduit of Ruin (bfz) 4
Garna, the Bloodflame

Flash When Garna, the Bloodflame enters, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from anywhere this turn. Other creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Garna, the Bloodflame (dmc) 151
Gravedigger

When Gravedigger enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Gravedigger (j22) 424
Heartless Hidetsugu

{T}: Heartless Hidetsugu deals damage to each player equal to half that player's life total, rounded down.

Creature
Heartless Hidetsugu (plst) CNS-144
Herald of Leshrac

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Gain control of a land you don't control. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Herald of Leshrac gets +1/+1 for each land you control but don't own. When Herald of Leshrac leaves the battlefield, each player gains control of each land they own that you control.

Creature
Herald of Leshrac (plst) CSP-62
Inferno Titan

{R}: Inferno Titan gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever Inferno Titan enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Creature
Inferno Titan (ncc) 269
It That Betrays

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
It That Betrays (ddp) 43
Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

Creature
Kaervek the Merciless (scd) 233
Knollspine Dragon

Flying When Knollspine Dragon enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

Creature
Knollspine Dragon (plst) SHM-98
Lobber Crew

Defender {T}: Lobber Crew deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, untap Lobber Crew.

Creature
Lobber Crew (rtr) 99
Meteor Golem

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Meteor Golem (moc) 363
Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Creature
Neheb, the Eternal (hou) 104
Nettle Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.) {T}: Nettle Drone deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, untap Nettle Drone.

Creature
Nettle Drone (bfz) 131
Ox of Agonas

When Ox of Agonas enters, discard your hand, then draw three cards. Escape—{R}{R}, Exile eight other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) Ox of Agonas escapes with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Ox of Agonas (nec) 108
Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (j22) 72
Sandstone Oracle

Flying When Sandstone Oracle enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

Creature Artifact
Sandstone Oracle (cmr) 336
Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When Sepulchral Primordial enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Sepulchral Primordial (scd) 106
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (onc) 141
Spear Spewer

Defender {T}: Spear Spewer deals 1 damage to each player.

Creature
Spear Spewer (j22) 82
Steel Hellkite

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Creature Artifact
Steel Hellkite (scd) 278
Stonecoil Serpent

Reach, trample, protection from multicolored Stonecoil Serpent enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact
Stonecoil Serpent (eld) 235
Stormfist Crusader

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Stormfist Crusader (scd) 247
Thermo-Alchemist

Defender {T}: Thermo-Alchemist deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap Thermo-Alchemist.

Creature
Thermo-Alchemist (scd) 162
Tuktuk Rubblefort

Defender, reach Creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Tuktuk Rubblefort (znr) 173
Ulamog's Crusher

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) Ulamog's Crusher attacks each combat if able.

Creature
Ulamog's Crusher (uma) 8
Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste. Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Urabrask the Hidden (clb) 811

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. • Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Retreat to Hagra (c18) 116
Sarkhan's Unsealing

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 4, 5, or 6, Sarkhan's Unsealing deals 4 damage to any target. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 7 or greater, Sarkhan's Unsealing deals 4 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.

Enchantment
Sarkhan's Unsealing (jmp) 361
Sunbird's Invocation

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Sunbird's Invocation (scd) 159
Theater of Horrors

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. During your turn, if an opponent lost life this turn, you may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with Theater of Horrors. {3}{R}: Theater of Horrors deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Enchantment
Theater of Horrors (scd) 250
Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Enchantment
Warstorm Surge (clb) 815

Enchantments

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Instants

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Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Kazuul's Fury

Instant
Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (scd) 239
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (scd) 249
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174

Instants

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Lands

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Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (plst) DIS-171
Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Bloodfell Caves (mom) 267
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Canyon Slough enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (akh) 239
Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dmc) 207
Foreboding Ruins

As Foreboding Ruins enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (scd) 300
Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Graven Cairns (2xm) 320
Lavaclaw Reaches

Lavaclaw Reaches enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, Lavaclaw Reaches becomes a 2/2 black and red Elemental creature with "{X}: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.

Land
Lavaclaw Reaches (uma) 245
Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.) Leechridden Swamp enters tapped. {B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Land
Leechridden Swamp (j22) 137
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (moc) 416
Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped. When Rakdos Carnarium enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (brc) 194
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (brc) 199
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

{T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Land
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep (plst) CHK-282
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (scd) 319
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (scd) 326

Lands

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Sorceries

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Cut

Sorcery
Cut // Ribbons (plst) AKH-223
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (c17) 111
Dreadbore

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Dreadbore (e01) 83
Last One Standing

Choose a creature at random, then destroy the rest.

Sorcery
Last One Standing (bbd) 76
Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Sorcery
Light Up the Stage (clb) 802
Plague Wind

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Plague Wind (a25) 102
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (moc) 267
Song-Mad Treachery

Sorcery
Song-Mad Treachery // Song-Mad Ruins (znr) 165Song-Mad Treachery // Song-Mad Ruins (znr) 165
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111

Sorceries

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