Rakdos the Defiler • (Rakdos Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Demons Sacrifice Self-Destruct Reanimator

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Demons Sacrifice Self-Destruct Reanimator

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

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 $1.59 $1.04

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

Bloodcrusher of Khorne

Trample
Devastating Charge — Other creatures you control have trample.

Creature - Knight Demon

$1.99 $2.52 $2.39

Anthem

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Burn

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49

Plague Drone

Flying
Rot Fly — If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Creature - Demon

$2.49 $2.34 $1.49

Burn

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Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $9.49

Strionic Resonator

: 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

$9.49 $7.09 $6.25

Copy

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Draw

Qty: 6 Price: $14.40

Bloodgift Demon

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

Creature - Demon

$1.29 $0.44 $0.37

Greed

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

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

$1.79 $2.74 $0.83

Immersturm Raider

When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Creature - Demon Berserker

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

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

$4.99 $4.22 $2.44

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $5.59 $3.35

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 3 Price: $59.47

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

$39.99 $26.23 $25.78

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 $5.59 $4.06

Savage Beating

Cast this spell only during combat on your turn.
Choose one —
• Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.
• Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Entwine

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant

$12.99 $11.14 $7.27

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $103.47

Akoum Refuge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Bloodstained Mire

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$29.99 $17.74 $16.67

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $2.15 $1.54

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.

: Add

: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land

$4.49 $3.44 $2.40

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.69 $0.28 $0.20

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.92 $0.52

Field of Ruin

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land

$0.39 $0.35 $0.15

Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.41 $0.20

Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$10.99 $8.25 $5.83

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Mount Doom

, Pay 1 life: Add

: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent.

, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Land

$9.99 $6.33 $5.75

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Rakdos Carnarium

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.36 $0.31

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $5.37 $4.15

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.99 $0.96 $0.46

Shadowblood Ridge

: Add

Land

$4.99 $3.29 $2.40

Smoldering Marsh

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$0.79 $0.44 $0.15

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.99 $4.14 $1.56

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Tainted Peak

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$3.99 $2.71 $0.78

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.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

: Add

: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Legendary Land - Gate

$12.99 $9.88 $8.16

Land

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $15.25

Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample
You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Creature - Demon

$3.99 $2.56 $1.88

Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant

Flash
If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

, Exile Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant: Return to the battlefield tapped all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Legendary Artifact

$2.99 $2.05 $0.71

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 $0.58 $0.46

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $5.12 $4.34

Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.39 $0.15

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 14 Price: $49.72

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.85 $0.41

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

$1.29 $1.57 $0.65

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$4.99 $5.22 $3.60

Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by

. (During your turn, you may pay

and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Whenever you foretell a card, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature - Demon Cleric

$1.29 $0.98 $0.35

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker

(You may pay an additional

any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.

: Add

for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.36 $0.20

Generator Servant

, Sacrifice this creature: Add

. If any of that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (That creature can attack and

as soon as it comes under your control.)

Creature - Elemental

$0.35 $0.30 $0.16

Herald of Slaanesh

Locus of Slaanesh — Demon spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Other Demons you control have haste.

Creature - Demon

$5.49 $5.35 $3.23

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$20.99 $14.73 $13.27

Rakdos Locket

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact

$0.39 $0.32 $0.15

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $3.22 $1.13

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

$2.49 $2.19 $0.78

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $2.08 $1.47

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 - Golem

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.79 $2.67 $1.30

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 9 Price: $80.72

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 $7.66 $5.31

Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact

$42.99 $34.83 $34.21

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$5.49 $6.51 $2.79

Orcus, Prince of Undeath

Flying, trample
When Orcus enters, choose one —
• Each other creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You lose X life.
• Return up to X target creature cards with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

Past in Flames

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$3.99 $3.96 $2.49

Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature - Zombie Phyrexian

$1.79 $1.03 $0.43

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

$14.99 $9.80 $8.70

Surge to Victory

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Creatures you control get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player this turn, copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery

$---- $---- $----

Victimize

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.74 $0.42

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 19 Price: $55.13

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

$1.29 $0.58 $0.39

Archfiend of Sorrows

Flying
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Unearth

(

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Demon

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Dash Hopes

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$1.49 $4.40 $0.71

Desecration Demon

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature - Demon

$0.69 $0.43 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.35 $0.16

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Instant

$8.49 $6.44 $5.78

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.79 $0.33 $0.18

Kagemaro, First to Suffer

Kagemaro's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

, Sacrifice Kagemaro: All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

$2.29 $2.88 $0.83

Kill! Maim! Burn!

Choose one or more —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target creature.
• Kill! Maim! Burn! deals 3 damage to target player.

Instant

$0.49 $0.40 $0.26

Mayhem Devil

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

Creature - Devil

$0.69 $0.53 $0.30

Nazgûl Battle-Mace

Equipped creature has menace, deathtouch, annihilator 1, and "Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that player pays 3 life." (Whenever a creature with annihilator 1 attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$24.99 $19.28 $15.63

Overseer of the Damned

Flying
When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Demon

$0.79 $0.39 $0.27

Rakdos Charm

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

Instant

$0.99 $0.39 $0.35

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

$2.79 $2.73 $2.20

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

$1.29 $2.19 $0.59

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$0.99 $0.27 $0.25

The Balrog of Moria

Trample, haste
When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it. When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create two Treasure tokens.

Legendary Creature - Demon Avatar

$2.29 $0.59 $0.26

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

$3.49 $5.18 $4.73

Torch Fiend

, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.

Creature - Devil

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $4.49

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 $4.45 $3.11

Stax

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $35.46

Burning-Rune Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature - Demon Berserker

$6.99 $5.57 $3.37

Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$2.99 $2.32 $1.07

Entomb

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

Instant

$23.99 $16.66 $16.41

Rune-Scarred Demon

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

Creature - Demon

$1.49 $1.32 $0.36

Tutor

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Sideboard

Qty: 1 Price: $20.99

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$20.99 $16.02 $14.58

Sideboard

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $455.06

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Avg Mana Value: 3.60Total Mana Value: 234.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.60Total Mana Value: 234.00

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