Rakdos Deck

barril · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 4

Hey I made this rakdos deck, most of its creatures are RB to maximize lyzolda's hability.
Hit its good against untargettable creatures, altought sometimes it can only kill a signet.

Any thoughts and suggestions are highly welcome.
Ideas for a SB?

22 Land
4 Blood Crypt
1 Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
9 Swamp (1)
5 Mountain (1)
4 Sulfurous Springs

20 Spells
4 Seal of Fire
4 Rise/Fall
4 Hit/Run
4 Wrecking Ball
4 Umezawa's Jitte

18 Creatures
4 Rakdos Guildmage
4 Gobhobbler Rats
4 Lyzolda, the Blood Witch
4 Rakdos Augermage
2 Rakdos Pit Dragon

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Barril. [<@>]

tinman · Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 171 Location: Winter par

ya wrecking ball only tends to be good against control in my experience cant kill combos creatures and against aggro 4 mana kill one creature tends to be too slow so id board wrecking ball against control and put in another guy, another, burn spell, or cruel edict or last gasp other than that it looks all right

tinman · Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 171 Location: Winter par

o sry one more thing ideas for youre board include ld to handle vitu-ghazi, miren and any other non basic lands with abilitys including orzhova church of deals also shattering spree for owl and eradicate

rods · Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 22

i'd say keep the ball main and run last gasp SB against zoo/gruul, also some more disruption SB like distress.
extraction against combo decks too.

tinman · Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 171 Location: Winter par

ya i betcha the meta at your local fnm or where ever you play magic locally is more control mine happens to be more aggro you barril will make a desicions based on your local meta

Stucco · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 541

I've always found that Rise//Fall, if played at all, is a better call in your sideboard. Laughing

It's way too dead against aggro. Consider Blackmail as another turn 1 option with Seal.

JDude · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 26

You have a low curve. Run confidant. Period. It's better than any card that you could put in R/B aggro. (You could argue jitte i guess, but otherwise.

kfcman1084 · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 434

ur only targeted removal is W ball (not including seal
) drop the balls for last gasps drop gobbhobblers for chars
and fit in 3 flamesof the B hand

Rawker · Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 5

My mini-speech first: Despite the spouts and bluster of many on this site, there is no "perfect" deck or even guild. Part of what we love about MTG is how it evolves and combines luck, skill, creativity, and interactive play so well (maybe that actually is perfect). There are some horrible decks and strategies that deserve to be pounced upon. But this is a great time for T2 with so many possibilities and mysteries about what to expect, at Regionals or even on a Friday night.

So my approach is to play what fits my personality, and I love the red/black angle (' Twisted Evil

'), even though I don't really like the Hellbent mechanic. As many people have pointed out, BW aggro and some control decks have a leg up on decks like Rakdos. Here are my answers to Rakdos's problems:
1.) Blood Moon MD: sometimes it's GG on Turn 3 for Simic, Golgari, and even BW aggro players
2.) Blazing Shoal + Myojin(cc10) or Stalking Vengeance(7): When the other guy is tapped out you can swing for 8 or 11 with your little Frostling or goblin for no mana cost. It's a risk if you don't get the combo, but Shoal is still playable on its own, and I favor Vengeance or Myojin because I occasionally can hardcast it (with haste!)
3.) Utvara Scalper: I have two MD to deal with Azorius decks and hippies. Not a great answer, but sometimes unblocked -- see #2.

The rest is a combo of lyzolda, rusalkas, about 15 burn spells (yes, seal of fire is in there -- it works as a deterrent, unlike Shock which is hidden in your hand), and rakdos mage.

XFrancoX · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

My deck Burnout

Lands: 22
4 Blood Crypt
4 Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
7 Mountain
7 Swamp
Creatures: 10
2 Dread Slag
4 Drekavac
4 Rakdos Guildmage
Spells: 28
4 Pyroclasm
4 Lava Spike
4 Kindle the Carnage
4 Hit // Run
4 Seal of Fire
4 Cackling Flames
4 Umezawa's Jitte

SB: 4 Lyzolda, the Blood Witch
SB: 4 Rain of Gore
SB: 2 Dread Slag
SB: 4 Char

Its simple kill all in the table an when in no more to kill, win the game.
How can I improbe it?

wizmo · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 10

this is the version that i have been using and it seems to work pretty well.

23 land

spells:
3 fobh
4 seal o fire
4 char
4 hit
4 jitte

guys:
4 augermage
4 guildmage
4 confidant
4 lyzolda
2 pit dragons

sb:
1 flame
4 wreck ball
3 shatter spree
3 last gasp
4 rise/fall

have been toying with changing the dragons and lyzolda count as well as the mage count

kinda want to fit in blackmail... lemme know whaT you would change in this list

orderofstick · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 64

pit dragon is awful, hit//run is 8 life off of bob. here's my build, which i think is great:

4 Blood Crypt
4 Sulfurous Springs
2 Rix Maadi
1 Shinka
1 Shizo
5 Mountain
5 Swamp

4 Confidant
3 Augermage
4 Lyzolda
3 Frenzied Goblin
3 Plagued Rusalka
3 Jagged Poppet
3 Rakdos Guildmage

3 Rise//Fall
3 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Char
3 Seal of Fire
2 Flames of the Blood Hand

kikimikejiki · Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 649

seriously uu guys are playing rakdos the wrong way it should be a counter burn deck with only pit dragons and dread slag as win conditions and tops and shit i played against it today at regionals that deck is hawt

megrim220 · Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 4

Somewhere in these 5million posts you prolly already heard this, but I suggest getting some Rain of Gore for sideboard against RW, WB, etc