Nameless Rakdos Build. Help Name It!

[TenteiKarite]

This is my attempt at a Budgeted Rakdos Aggro Deck:

Get 'Bent! T-II Rakdos Aggro
v6.0

Lands -20-
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5 Swamp
5 Mountain
4 Sulfurous Springs
4 Blood Crypt
2 Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace

Creature Spells -22-
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4 Gobhobbler Rats
4 Rakdos Guildmage
4 Rakdos Augermage
4 Jagged Poppet
4 Hellhole Rats
2 Crypt Champion

Non-Creature Spells -16-
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4 Seal of Fire
2 Infernal Tutor
2 Ignorant Bliss
4 Seal of Doom
4 Wrecking Ball

Artifacts -2-
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2 Skullmead Cauldron

TOTAL: 60 Cards


NOTE: this is EXTREMELY budgeted. I do not have enough money for Char, Lyzolda the Blood Witch, or any other High-End Cards.

-T/K

[Ordyh]

meh...as much as i dont like Rakdos...this is pretty stable for a themed dek! good job ^_^

[TenteiKarite]

meh...as much as i dont like Rakdos...this is pretty stable for a themed dek! good job ^_^
Thanks, Got a Rating?

Anybody Else?

-T/K

[Brockiflower]

-2 Anarchs
-2 Pain magnification
-2 Twinstrike
-2 Riteknife
-2 Skullmead Cauldron
+4 Seal of Fire
+3 Rakdos Ickspitter
+3 Squealing Devil
If you can get them
-2 Cryptkeeper
+2 Lyzolda, the Blood Witch

[TenteiKarite]

-2 Anarchs
-2 Pain magnification
-2 Twinstrike
-2 Riteknife
-2 Skullmead Cauldron
+4 Seal of Fire
+3 Rakdos Ickspitter
+3 Squealing Devil
If you can get them
-2 Cryptkeeper
+2 Lyzolda, the Blood Witch
Thanks for the Suggestions.

I like my Knifes and Cauldrons, so I may still try and find a way to put one or the other in... may just add the Cauldrons, for a 62 card total, as they help Hellbent out...

-T/K

Additional Comment:
Tweaked the Deck, added Cauldrons (they enable Hellbent, and give me a life cushion, nothing bad there... I MAY, however, drop them for Rakdos Riteknives, but that's WAY too much Creature Sacrificing going on, what with Lyzolda AND the Knives)

Anybody Else?

-T/K

[Brockiflower]

The knives are slow and bad. You dont need the cauldron. Poppet, Guildmage, and, Augermage enable hellbent well. They also do something productive as well.

[TenteiKarite]

The knives are slow and bad. You dont need the cauldron. Poppet, Guildmage, and, Augermage enable hellbent well. They also do something productive as well.
I'm still gonna playtest the Cauldrons, and I'll Drop them if they don't quite work out...

Anybody Else?

-T/K

[DukeDevlin]

theme deck names: Brain Bleed, Nowhere to Discard, Hand Control (bleh)

looks solid...completely different from my deck (i'm running raknos too and also on budget...i just happened to get 2 bloodcrypts in a fatpack :D )

I'd say, adding a few cruel edicts on your sideboard could be helpful...get's rid of untargetables and it's relatively cheap to play.

rate 9/10

Can you R/F my Radkos deck too?

[Morzan]

Playtest with 3 or 4 One With Nothing to get to Hellbent.

[TenteiKarite]

Playtest with 3 or 4 One With Nothing to get to Hellbent.
no.
i've got enough Hellbent enablers as is, I don't need one with nothing.

anybody Else?

-T/K

[GhostRider2099]

Im just suggesting a name here. How 'bout Stalking Rakdos?

[Hanni]

While roaming around at www.wizards.com (like I usually do when I'm bored), I seen a banner that said "Get 'Bent." Seems like a great name for a Rakdos Deck.

Get 'Bent

Or maybe, I Got 'Bent.
Or maybe, You Got Me 'Bent, Dawg.

Hahahaha.

[TenteiKarite]

While roaming around at www.wizards.com (like I usually do when I'm bored), I seen a banner that said "Get 'Bent." Seems like a great name for a Rakdos Deck.

Get 'Bent

Or maybe, I Got 'Bent.
Or maybe, You Got Me 'Bent, Dawg.

Hahahaha.
yea... that's already been suggested...

anybody else?

-T/K

[Hanni]

I think Sensei's Divining Top is kinda cool in Rakdos. You still get to keep Hellbent since you don't have to draw a card with it, but you get to control your topdeck. If you and your opponent both have no hand but you have a Top in play, the Top will give you a serious advantage over your opponent.

[TenteiKarite]

I think Sensei's Divining Top is kinda cool in Rakdos. You still get to keep Hellbent since you don't have to draw a card with it, but you get to control your topdeck. If you and your opponent both have no hand but you have a Top in play, the Top will give you a serious advantage over your opponent.
2 Problems:
1) Top is Too Expensive (i see 'em going for $8 a pop around me :eek:)
2) I have no Room for any.

anybody else?

-T/K

[Hazen]

2 Problems:
1) Top is Too Expensive (i see 'em going for $8 a pop around me :eek:)
2) I have no Room for any.

anybody else?

-T/K

$8:confused: top is a throw in around here.
me - "can i have that top"
them - "sure"

How is the deck running with only 20 lands? i was thinking about dropping some from my R/B builds.

[TenteiKarite]

$8:confused: top is a throw in around here.
me - "can i have that top"
them - "sure"

How is the deck running with only 20 lands? i was thinking about dropping some from my R/B builds.
it's not like I have an exceedingly large mana curve... most of my stuf is costed around 3-4, so It works out fine (especially since 4 of my lands can help Hellbent)

-T/K

[Hazen]

sweet. i think i'll drop some lands from my build seeing as how the curve ends at 3.

What are you playing for a side borad?
I was thinking sowing salt.

[Hazen]

sorry for the double post...

[TenteiKarite]

sweet. i think i'll drop some lands from my build seeing as how the curve ends at 3.

What are you playing for a side borad?
I was thinking sowing salt.Nothing, as of Yet.
My Sideboard will PROBABLY be focused more on Burn, using Pain Magnification, Flames of the Blood Hand, Cackling Flames, and mebbe a couple Seal of Doom and Kill-Suit Cultists... idk..

-T/K

[Hazen]

have you tried avatar of discord? when i was using hellbent she was brutal when she came down, she can outrace almost anything, leading to huge differences in life. My problem was drawing her late game when i had no hand.

[TenteiKarite]

have you tried avatar of discord? when i was using hellbent she was brutal when she came down, she can outrace almost anything, leading to huge differences in life. My problem was drawing her late game when i had no hand.
That's the type of thing I'm trying to avoid... (the Late game part)
I MAY toss a few Dread Slag in here, as they're just not right with Psychotic Fury and Cauldron (attack with Slag, Fury, tap Cauldron, Drop the Drawn Card, 9/9Trample, Doublestrike... not right at all)

hm..

-T/K

[DukeDevlin]

Well if you need to draw, I usually have no problem running dark confidants...since if you don't kill them quickly enough (before dc kills you), you've already lost...(ie to big creatures).
-3 Rakdos Splitter
-3 Squealing Demon (or side deck him out if playing against black)
+3 Hellbent Rats (they have only their dragon in their hand..huzzah 7 dmg +haste)
+3 Dark Confidant

can you r/f me too?

[Hazen]

i thought about dread slag. that + psychotic fury = GG

[TenteiKarite]

I've Picked a name for the Deck: "Get 'Bent!". Also, I've tweaked the deck a lot, to better fit this name.

I've dropped the Psychotic Furys, simply because my deck lacked Instant-Speed Discard, other than Skullmead Cauldron, which meant that I'd have to use it Pre-Combat, and THEN discard the card it made me draw, which let my opponent know what I was planning. That little thing cost me a good number of games.

Hopefully, this new build, which is more focused on Hellbent, will perform better. Only time will tell.

Any Ideas(PLEASE NOTE THAT I WANT TO KEEP THE FOCUS AS MUCH ON HELLBENT AS POSSIBLE)?

-T/K

[Hellbent Frood]

You might try Delirium Skeins, which makes each player discard three cards for three mana, or Drekavac (two mana, 3/3, discard a non-creature), or hidden horror (4/4, three mana, discard a creature), Anthem of Rakdos (ultimate Hellbent card, but it costs five mana, which is expensive for an agressive deck like rakdos), or Taste for mayhem (with hellbent, it permantly gives +4/+0).

[Cheesemonger]

Drekavec = Awesome. I've tested it out some, and while the deck itself was scrapped (B/G aggro) I still liked the little combo of dropping the Drekavec, and discarding the Moldervine Cloak, only to drdge it back up.

Skullmead cauldron really isn't that good. I'd say drop it, especially since it costs 4.

Wh not try something like:

Lands -21-
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6 Swamp
5 Mountain
4 Sulfurous Springs
4 Blood Crypt
2 Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace

Creature Spells -27-
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4 Gobhobbler Rats
4 Rakdos Guildmage
4 Rakdos Augermage
4 Jagged Poppet
3 Dark Confidant
4 Squealing Devil
4 Frenzied Goblins

Non-Creature Spells -12-
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4 Seal of Fire
4 Last Gasp
4 Volcanic Hammer

I've lowered the mana curve a bit by dropping all the four mana cards, and some of the 3 mana cards.

This means you don't have to rely on discarding your own stuff to reach hellbent, but just overextending. The guildmage, Augermage, and Poppet allow you to do it anway, though. Confidant allows you card advantage, and with everything a little bit cheaper, it won't hurt you as much. While it may seem kinda crazy for it to been in a Hellbent deck, it makes a certain amount of sense.
1. It allows you to draw more stuff to play. Aggro decks want to win with Creatures, and drawing more creatures is a Good Thing.
2. It's an efficent beater (2 power for 2 mana)
3. It won't hurt as much due to the increase in lands (by 1. I think 20 lands is a smidge too much in most cases) and the decrease in the mana cost of everything.
4 It's a lightning rod, so to speak. Most people will drop all the removal they can on it, safely ignoring the other creatures.
5. Only three of them, which is cheaper than 4-of, and makes it so you aren't too full of cards.

Everything else is kinda self explanatory.

[TenteiKarite]

Cheesemonger: Once again, you have suggested an Impossibly expensive deck. I distinctly remember saying that I didn't have enough money for High-end cards...

Anybody else?

-T/K

[Cheesemonger]

I ran both versions through this:
http://findmagiccards.com/TUser?MC=PMPE

This is a fairly decent tool that allows you to post a lot of cards at once and see how much the whole deck would cost. I decided to try out both of the versions, the one you had in your (first) post, and the I suggested in my last post.

My Version:To buy these would cost $151.10
You could sell them for $64.05

Your Version: To buy these would cost $145.91
You could sell them for $57.26

And it is certainly not impossible. Bobs, while somewhat expensive, aren't too costly and are a good investment. Also note, suprisingly enough, that they were the only rare I added, with most of the rest of everything be cheaper commons, and uncommons.

If Bobs are truly that hard to come by (no drafting in your area, I'd guess. Where I got 3 of mine), simply play without them. Daggerclaw Imp, Nezumi Cutthroat, Nezumi Graverober, Plagued Rusalka, Scorched Rusalka. You can pick these up relatively cheap in common/uncommon bins.

[ApocalypseNow25]

Hells Bells is a kewl name for Rakdos Aggro.

[lord_dosu]

Hellhole, since it the home of the Rakdos in Ravnica.:cool: