Rakdos, Lord of Riots cEDH Deck Tech - Instant Commander series

[@Murwiz]

Here's some other cards I've identified as budget considerations: Spitfire Lagac, Tunneling Geopede, Retreat to Hagra: play a land, add (3) for casting creatures! Iron Myr, Leaden Myr, Palladium Myr: cheaper mana rocks that can be cast easier with your commander in play! Palace Siege (on Dragons mode): (6) extra "mana" per turn! God-Pharaoh's Statue: only (3), but also slows down your opponents! Very much enjoyed the deck, and as a result I'm a new subscriber!

[@pedrosequeira9829]

Many of those budgets function well, but I'd advise against the Statue just because it only triggers on your End Step, so you're missing the discount from it

[@devinkairo2966]

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[@crosbyethan2761]

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[@santinojavier8114]

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[@Rakdos-qn7ey]

Love this video! Rakdos is my favorite commander and I've been working on him for over a year now. I always found it easy to build a huge board state but not able to win that turn. The combos you showed in this video were just what I needed to make this deck go from a strong deck to a deck that threatens to win consistently

[@blaze556922]

Use more haste or creatures that put others into play tapped and attacking. Like Illgarth the Raze Boar. I've found using creatures with costs that are helped by Rakdos but not dependent on always having access to him. Makes the deck more consistent.

[@TempestDacine]

Great vid. I was a huge fan of animar on release and this gives a cool new angle to play with. Makes me wanna dig up my old commander cards

[@Lasor4]

Super interesting deck! Good thing we have Feed the Swarm for enchantments now 🤌

[@hectormorales4090]

Awesome vid guys.

[@Zzectbu]

Saw the video yesterday, built the deck today and played a few games with some friends. I don't think it would hold up in a super fast meta, but in a slower environment it's hilarious and remarkably effective. Thanks for the brilliant suggestion!

[@pedrosequeira9829]

Yeah, in faster metas you just become the leech that hopes they prevent each other from doing stuff with countermagic, but the deck isn't meant to be very participative in those matches, except by accident.

[@jdust4]

First video I found if yours. Love it! More deck techs please!

[@SplitSecond]

We appreciate it! :) we do tend to do more gameplay videos than decktech ones, but we'll have some more eventually! ;)

[@martsmeijsters5605]

Hey ! Great video ! It's really easy to understand even if you're not used to cEDH. I might actually try to make a tuned down budget version of this.

[@pedrosequeira9829]

Tell us how it went :D

[@rafaellumrodas350]

great details of the deck!!!!

[@buddadragonmtg4848]

I might actually give this a shot guys. I like the idea behind it and my eldrazi titans could use a different home than my mono green stompy lol.

[@mortycremwatch]

Great video! Didn't realise you had made a deck tech before. Looking forward to seeing more. I have an Etali Eldrazi deck I've been thinking of splitting into Purphoros, Bronze Blooded and Rakdos so this video came at the perfect time. It's probably too high cmc for this deck but I really like Sarkhan's Unsealing in my Eldrazi build. It could deal big chunks of damage to reduce the cost of Eldrazi then take opponents out if you loop them. Speaking of, you can loop the shuffle-drazi with Razaketh by sacrificing them to search for themselves. Just need to make sure you kill your opponents before you kill yourself.

[@SplitSecond]

Yes the deck can arrive at interesting toolbox-like scenarios where you can do a wide variety of things depending on what you have and what you need to achieve. We advise you to check out the game we played him, it shows a lot of what is spoken in this tut ;)

[@pedrosequeira9829]

I've thought about Unsealing many times, but felt it wasn't as aggressively costed as I needed it to be, and when we got together we saw that Terror of the Peaks was just much more efficient. It does go around ETB though, being on cast, so it can still find slots in metas where people go for many Torpor Orb effects

[@mortycremwatch]

Pedro Sequeira Terror of the Peaks is fantastic. I hope the price comes down a lot once Jumpstart is finally released in Europe. It’s a bit out of my budget atm

[@savsa-yt]

DADDY RAKDOS. 👁👄👁 The video was great, thanks!

[@petercarrington8113]

No Heartless Hidetsugu and wound reflection combo? I'm surprised.

[@pedrosequeira9829]

They work as a budget combo for sure (and you have other options like Archfiend of Despair and Havoc Festival), but they're too slow for the speed we're aiming at :3 I do like those for a painstax deck, I've used it for Vial Smasher/Kraum

[@Mark101dg]

Great video! Any changes you would make, 3 years later? Also, the decklist is not working :( Would have liked to take a look.

[@SplitSecond]

The person who built it is no longer part of the channel so they might have removed the list. It is scrolling down in the end of the video, and from there we will try to reconstruct it and update it. We'll keep you posted through this comment :)

[@aklepatzky]

Is there an updated decklist?

[@SplitSecond]

The person who built the deck isn't updating it anymore but you can join our discord server to discuss possible inclusions and exclusions :)

[@blaze556922]

Great deck tech but I'd take out any of the wingding costed Eldrazi. That takes away from consistent red and black sources and we need those to get Rakdos out. Running Kozilek the great distortion ends up with him stranded in your hand much of the time.

[@SplitSecond]

some of the high costed eldrazis are there for outlets with Cloudstone curio, in those turns that you deal a lot of damage to your opponents and they basically cost no mana.

[@ahut757]

playing razaketh with Aetherflux Resevoir and Ulamog the infinite gyr for an easy tutorable combo.

[@flaviomargato5553]

"Boa noite! O que vai desejar?" "Um baralho à Sequeira, por favor."

[@jbelowheaven3607]

i LOVE my casual Rakdos eldrazi deck but after my first game with it, i barely play it bc my group uses all their removal on it. really hard to have fun with it :^/

[@pedrosequeira9829]

You can try and time it differently so people are less afraid, maybe wait for bigger guns to show up first before Rakdos comes out

[@NiaTheMilkTank]

Reanimate and Animate dead should help, also swift and lightning boots

[@NiaTheMilkTank]

You could also run things like ilaharg (the boar god) and the new perpheros

[@revelmonger]

A) This is high power at most. B) You showed Selvala as a "slow creature combo" deck........ How?!?!?!?! What sort of meta are you in xD

[@SplitSecond]

A) We at SplitSecond see cEDH as playing with the best cards possible trying to achieve the best goals for the deck while playing to win - be it through combo, stax, or aggro. We don't see cEDH as just the tier X decks of Commander. In this manner you will see some videos/decks we label as cEDH with Fringe commanders, because we tried to build that commander the best possible way. This deck in particular has been played into several highpowered/cEDH pods, taking a more leech'y approach in farm-oriented pods or pods with heavier stax. It obviously underperforms versus pods with little to no interaction, focused instead on speed. B) There are two things here. First off, I think our English might have not been well-written. The idea was not to say that, among creature combo decks, Selvala was slow, but rather "slower, creature-combo decks" as in how those often tend to be slower in comparison to the good ol' Consultation or Food Chain decks. Selvala herself was picked because we often played against her, and the struggle for Brostorm is how easily it feels to disrupt and how it tends to have to pick itself up a few times to try and win. Selvala's first attempts at victory are around turn 3-4 (2 if you got her T1) and usually get stiffled. Around turn 4-5, this deck hits its first major power spike to try and win, so you can ride those coattails to win. These are impressions that are hard to charge into a video that attempts not to overload people with information, however!

[@revelmonger]

@@SplitSecond I get where your coming from. I often play in cEDH pods, but rarely play with commanders that one would assume are cEDH viable. I call these decks "optimized". St Carah storm, Okaun & Zndrsplt combo, The Locust God combo, ect. My big shtick in Commander is taking a visually medium/high power commander and optimizing it to see how it plays into cEDH pods. And sometimes find gold like with my Primal surge Omnath deck which has a 34% wr currently from the 40 somthing games I've played with it. At the end of the day all you can do is optimize a deck and hope it can compete at the highest level of play. After all no one wants to play in a pod where everyone is expecting cEDH and then that one person sits down with a Fire song and sun speaker deck and ruins the whole dynamic of the table.

[@familiapacheco3886]

Can't access to the list, can someone send it to me? 🥺

[@SplitSecond]

We can access it. Try it again, as Moxfield has been randomly showing error 404 on good working links, it's somehow just a matter of retrying and it works :)

[@MidKnight_Sicario187]

Hello could you show me the deck list by any chance

[@SplitSecond]

The decklist is in the description of the video.

[@MidKnight_Sicario187]

@@SplitSecond thanks didn’t see it my bad

[@Chill_rat]

Yo why the link to the list broken

[@SplitSecond]

Hi, unfortunately the person who built the deck parted ways with the channel and eventually took the list down. We are going to rebuild it, through the footage of the video: basically the whole list scrolls down in the end of the decktech :)

[@Chill_rat]

@@SplitSecond you guy know when that might be?

[@SplitSecond]

We updated the list :) The URL is now fixed and you can also find it here: tinyurl.com/kvseu6b3 Take into consideration the primer was lost forever, but the video itself also serves as a guide to the deck. Also, this deck was built some years ago when the Meta was quite different, and today's bowmaster's era makes it so some of the early creatures could be considered to be out if they have only 1 toughness. But that's something open to meta-calls and personal preference.

[@orsettomorbido]

"A stax player that is a Cobblepott fan" LMAO

[@SplitSecond]

Kinda like Brandão, you know? xD

[@XpPotions]

@@SplitSecond my favorite monster

[@andersonafpaulino7102]

Here's my decklist, take a look and tell me what you think about it: archidekt.com/decks/760609#Rakdos,_Lord_of_Riots Love'd the video, please do more Deck Techs.