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Conditions Allow - Rakdos the Defiler - Rakdos the Defiler
Deck Size: 99
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $412.67
Salt Sum: 30.28
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $3.49
Rakdos the Defiler

Flying, trample Whenever Rakdos the Defiler attacks, sacrifice half the non-Demon permanents you control, rounded up. Whenever Rakdos deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices half the non-Demon permanents they control, rounded up.

Creature
Rakdos the Defiler (dis) 129
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 11Price: $44.17
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (moc) 352
1
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
1
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
1
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (moc) 359
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
1
Mycosynth Wellspring

When Mycosynth Wellspring enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Mycosynth Wellspring (brc) 150
1
Rakdos Cluestone

{T}: Add {B} or {R}. {B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Rakdos Cluestone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Rakdos Cluestone (dgm) 143
1
Rakdos Locket

{T}: Add {B} or {R}. {B/R}{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}, {T}, Sacrifice Rakdos Locket: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Rakdos Locket (c19) 220
1
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (moc) 384
1

Creatures

Quantity: 14Price: $43.50
Basal Thrull

{T}, Sacrifice Basal Thrull: Add {B}{B}.

Creature
Basal Thrull (fem) 34d
1
Blood Pet

Sacrifice Blood Pet: Add {B}.

Creature
Blood Pet (plst) TMP-109
1
Blood Speaker

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice Blood Speaker. If you do, search your library for a Demon card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a Demon enters the battlefield under your control, return Blood Speaker from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Blood Speaker (chk) 103
1
Captain Lannery Storm

Haste Whenever Captain Lannery Storm attacks, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever you sacrifice a Treasure, Captain Lannery Storm gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Captain Lannery Storm (j22) 509
1
Dire Fleet Hoarder

When Dire Fleet Hoarder dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dire Fleet Hoarder (2xm) 84
1
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (grn) 69
1
Generator Servant

{T}, Sacrifice Generator Servant: Add {C}{C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (That creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Creature
Generator Servant (plst) M15-143
1
Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (jmp) 243
1
It That Betrays

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

Creature
It That Betrays (ddp) 43
1
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder

Flying Whenever a permanent owned by another player is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder (j22) 431
1
Ravenous Chupacabra

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (clb) 770
1
Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying When Rune-Scarred Demon enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Rune-Scarred Demon (plst) IMA-106
1
Wily Goblin

When Wily Goblin enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Wily Goblin (xln) 174
1
Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When Wurmcoil Engine dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (2xm) 308
1

Enchantments

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Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment
Revel in Riches (plst) XLN-117
1

Instants

Quantity: 14Price: $44.14
Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (scd) 122
1
Altar's Reap

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Altar's Reap (plst) DDR-37
1
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (brc) 121
1
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
1
Costly Plunder

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Costly Plunder (2xm) 80
1
Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Culling the Weak (exo) 55
1
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
1
Desperate Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}. Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Desperate Ritual (uma) 127
1
Pyretic Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Pyretic Ritual (plst) M11-153
1
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
1
Rescue from the Underworld

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card and the sacrificed card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rescue from the Underworld.

Instant
Rescue from the Underworld (plst) THS-102
1
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
1
Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Instant
Songs of the Damned (uma) 115
1
Spoils of Evil

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add {C} and you gain 1 life.

Instant
Spoils of Evil (ice) 163
1

Lands

Quantity: 40Price: $137.78
Blackcleave Cliffs

Blackcleave Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (one) 248
1
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (plst) DIS-171
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
1
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
1
Canyon Slough

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

Land
Canyon Slough (akh) 239
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
1
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dmc) 207
1
Dwarven Ruins

Dwarven Ruins enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {T}, Sacrifice Dwarven Ruins: Add {R}{R}.

Land
Dwarven Ruins (6ed) 323
1
Ebon Stronghold

Ebon Stronghold enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Sacrifice Ebon Stronghold: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Ebon Stronghold (6ed) 324
1
Lake of the Dead

If Lake of the Dead would enter the battlefield, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Land
Lake of the Dead (all) 140
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
14
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield 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
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
14

Sorceries

Quantity: 18Price: $119.60
Bitter Ordeal

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Bitter Ordeal (fut) 80
1
Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
1
By Force

Destroy X target artifacts.

Sorcery
By Force (akh) 123
1
Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (2xm) 121
1
Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

Sorcery
Dark Petition (ori) 90
1
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
1
Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
1
Dreadbore

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Dreadbore (e01) 83
1
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (brc) 116
1
Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 121
1
Infernal Plunge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {R}{R}{R}.

Sorcery
Infernal Plunge (isd) 148
1
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (plst) A25-96
1
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
1
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Read the Bones (moc) 267
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
1
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
1
Tormenting Voice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tormenting Voice (j22) 615
1
Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Zombify (a25) 116
1

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