"The Life of the Burning Party: Rakdos Freaks Pauper Deck"

"The Life of the Burning Party: Rakdos Freaks Pauper Deck"  

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr. 

Despite the bad press the pain and fun-loving elements of Ravnica's party guild The Rakdos do not mind. As this pauper deck will show you they do not really care about a lot of things but they do care about dishing out pain and dishing out lots of it.

Here is the decklist for Rakdos Freaks:

9 X Swamps

9 X Mountain

4 X Rakdos Guildgate

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22 Lands

4 X Dead Reveler

4 X Grim Roustabout

4 X Gore-House Chain Walker

4 X Rakdos Shred-Freak

4 X Rakdos Drake

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20 creatures

4 X Devour Flesh

4 X Lightning Strike

4 X Shock

2 X Mugging 

4 X Madcap Skills 

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18 spells 

Sideboard(Suggestions):

2 X Shrivel

4 X Pharika's Cure

2 X Mugging 

4 X Splatter Thug

2 X Spawn of Rix Maadi

4 X Spark Jolt

Carnage. Mayhem. Chaos. Just a few of the things that you would expect from this guild. And the deck list packs the Unleash Mechanic to the brim. Rakdos Shred-Freak is the only one without it but he does bring haste to a bunch of guys who are already aggressive by nature. 

Now the plan is simple. Dish out as much pain as possible. Cast these creatures with Unleash so that they enter with an extra +1/+1. The downside is that they cannot block anything. Then again for a Rakdos blocking is for sissy's. They don't really care about taking damage as long as they can dish out more it.

For the choice of creatures I choose to put in Dead Reveler over splatter Thug in this deck because he becomes a 3/4 with Unleash. Something that the current pauper format cannot burn outright with a shock or Lightning Strike. Rakdos Drake is an awesome 3/3 Flyer that potentially gets to score more hits over any current flyer for 3 mana.

The removal suite of Devour Flesh , Lightning Strike , Mugging and Shock are all in there as well. A set of Madcap skills makes sure that the blood keeps on flowing for your opponents because they would not be able to block except with 2 or more creatures. With all the burn spells packed in here you could be sure that there will be one or none creatures on battlefield once the sorties commence. 

The slant for the Rakdos Freaks is more aggressive and gives new meaning to the phrase "All in" because if you are Rakdos when it comes to aggression there is no middle ground.