The Defiler • (Rakdos Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Rakdos the Defiler

Flying, trample
Whenever Rakdos 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 of their choice, rounded up.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$1.99 $1.61 $0.97

Commander

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Anger

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

Creature - Incarnation

$0.79 $0.73 $0.33

Anthem

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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 - Demon

$20.99 $15.93 $12.83

Burn

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Sire of Insanity

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards their hand.

Creature - Demon

$1.29 $0.50 $0.15

Discard

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Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.60 $2.66

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie

$2.79 $4.57 $0.96

Drain

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment

$22.99 $15.74 $14.07

Blood for the Blood God!

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature that died this turn.
Discard your hand, then draw eight cards. Blood for the Blood God! deals 8 damage to each opponent. Exile Blood for the Blood God!

Instant

$9.99 $5.11 $4.32

Bloodgift Demon

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

Creature - Demon

$1.79 $0.58 $0.35

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.39 $0.28

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature - Demon

$1.99 $0.83 $0.61

Liliana's Contract

When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Enchantment

$5.99 $4.78 $2.18

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $3.00 $0.25

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $3.20 $2.80

Rakdos, Patron of Chaos

Flying, trample
At the beginning of your end step, target opponent may sacrifice two nonland, nontoken permanents of their choice. If they don't, you draw two cards.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$8.49 $6.27 $3.84

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

$0.49 $0.32 $0.17

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $4.06 $0.39

Thrill of Possibility

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

Instant

$7.49 $5.65 $6.44

Draw

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Bloodthirster

Flying, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, untap it. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
This creature can't attack a player it has already attacked this turn.

Creature - Demon

$42.99 $24.96 $22.65

Master of Cruelties

First strike, deathtouch
This creature can only attack alone.
Whenever this creature attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. This creature assigns no combat damage this combat.

Creature - Demon

$6.49 $5.72 $4.10

Finisher

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Badlands

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: Add

Land - Swamp Mountain

$279.99 $285.67 $----

Blazemire Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land

$18.99 $12.79 $11.93

Blood Crypt

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$15.99 $10.47 $9.89

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$13.99 $10.46 $9.30

Mountain

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: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.39 $0.36 $0.23

Raucous Theater

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Swamp Mountain

$17.99 $11.53 $11.40

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$74.99 $56.10 $52.10

Land

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Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant

$94.99 $76.93 $74.07

Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.
Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Demon Berserker

$1.29 $2.99 $0.81

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $4.71 $4.16

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

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

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: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$2.99 $2.60 $2.06

Protection

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Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add X mana in any combination of

and/or

, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant

$0.79 $1.47 $0.62

Cabal Ritual

Add

.
Threshold — Add

instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Instant

$18.99 $19.23 $11.34

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$6.49 $4.68 $3.35

Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add

for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery

$47.99 $39.91 $37.51

Mahadi, Emporium Master

At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Legendary Creature - Devil

$2.29 $1.08 $0.77

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.37 $1.31

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost

less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$2.29 $2.28 $0.78

Seething Song

Add

Instant

$11.99 $11.51 $10.09

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.99 $3.34 $1.96

Ramp

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment - Aura

$8.99 $7.04 $5.89

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

$8.49 $6.59 $5.09

Reanimate

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

Sorcery

$13.99 $10.21 $8.79

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery

$37.99 $25.37 $25.61

Recursion

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Abrade

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

Instant

$0.79 $0.54 $0.26

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature - Demon

$1.49 $3.18 $0.46

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.69 $0.56 $0.20

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

$2.99 $1.33 $0.97

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant

$2.99 $1.50 $1.19

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Instant

$54.99 $38.96 $38.07

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

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 - Eldrazi

$18.99 $14.51 $12.24

Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature - Devil

$0.49 $0.65 $0.26

Rakdos Charm

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

Instant

$1.29 $0.44 $0.44

Rakdos, the Showstopper

Flying, trample
When Rakdos enters, flip a coin for each creature that isn't a Demon, Devil, or Imp. Destroy each creature whose coin comes up tails.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$3.49 $2.63 $2.16

Reaper from the Abyss

Flying
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.

Creature - Demon

$1.49 $1.47 $0.28

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

The Balrog, Durin's Bane

This spell costs

less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this turn.
Haste
The Balrog can't be blocked except by legendary creatures.
When The Balrog dies, destroy target artifact or creature an opponent controls.

Legendary Creature - Demon Avatar

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Tibalt's Trickery

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant

$17.99 $12.14 $10.88

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

$9.49 $5.77 $5.41

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.47 $2.60

Removal

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Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$4.49 $4.94 $3.23

Stax

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Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$4.49 $2.66 $1.74

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$89.99 $65.93 $60.39

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Demon

$2.29 $1.95 $0.50

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$69.99 $52.35 $50.39

Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Deathtouch
Boast —

: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Legendary Creature - Demon Rogue

$6.49 $4.53 $3.32

Tutor

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,161.20

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Avg Mana Value: 3.78Total Mana Value: 227.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.78Total Mana Value: 227.00

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