This week's deck is an alternative option to theVillage Rites decks that have been popping up lately. This decks disrupts your opponent with Thoughtseize and Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger while filling your graveyard with goodies.
Alongside Kroxa, you are looking for Archfiend's Vessel and Scrapheap Scrounger to easily reanimate some serious pressure. Lastly, everyone's favorite companion Lurrus of the Dream-Den is stellar in this deck, enabling a bunch of the previously mentioned cards as well as Stitcher's Supplier to keep the engine going.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Rakdos Graveyard Aggro by Meryn
'Rakdos Graveyard Aggro' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
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Pioneer
Market Price: $566.06
Fabled Passage
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
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Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Color Identity:B,W
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Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has converted mana cost 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} any time you could cast a sorcery.) Lifelink During each of your turns, you may cast one permanent spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard.
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Dragonskull Summit
Color Identity:B,R
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Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.
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Archfiend's Vessel
Color Identity:B
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Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) When Archfiend's Vessel enters the battlefield, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.
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Necromentia
Color Identity:B
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Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles their library, then creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card exiled from their hand this way.
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Liliana, Waker of the Dead
Color Identity:B
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+1: Each player discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life. −3: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard. −7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste."
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Noxious Grasp
Color Identity:B
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Destroy target creature or planeswalker that's green or white. You gain 1 life.
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Castle Locthwain
Color Identity:B
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Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
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({T}: Add {B}.)
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Claim // Fame
Color Identity:B,R
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Mountain
Color Identity:R
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({T}: Add {R}.)
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Duress
Color Identity:B
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Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
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Kolaghan's Command
Color Identity:B,R
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Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.
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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Color Identity:B
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Lifelink If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.
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Rankle, Master of Pranks
Color Identity:B
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Flying, haste Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number — • Each player discards a card. • Each player loses 1 life and draws a card. • Each player sacrifices a creature.
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Blood Crypt
Color Identity:B,R
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({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
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Stitcher's Supplier
Color Identity:B
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When Stitcher's Supplier enters the battlefield or dies, mill three cards.
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Foreboding Ruins
Color Identity:B,R
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As Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.
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Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
Color Identity:B,R
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When Kroxa enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Kroxa enters the battlefield or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life. Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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Scrapheap Scrounger
Color Identity:B
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Scrapheap Scrounger can't block. {1}{B}, Exile another creature card from your graveyard: Return Scrapheap Scrounger from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Dreadbore
Color Identity:B,R
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Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
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Leyline of the Void
Color Identity:B
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If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
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Fatal Push
Color Identity:B
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Destroy target creature if it has converted mana cost 2 or less. Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has converted mana cost 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.
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Thoughtseize
Color Identity:B
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Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
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