Rakdos, Lord of Riots card art

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Legendary Creature — Demon MV 4

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What it does

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn.

Flying, trample

Creature spells you cast cost 1 less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Combos with Rakdos, Lord of Riots

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-11-10

    Rakdos's last ability cares about the total life lost, not necessarily what an opponent's life total is compared to what it was at the beginning of the turn. For example, if an opponent loses 5 life and then gains 10 life in a turn, creature spells you cast will cost 5 less to cast.

  • 2020-11-10

    Damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life.

  • 2020-11-10

    Rakdos can be put onto the battlefield by another spell or ability even if no opponent has lost life that turn.

  • 2020-11-10

    Rakdos's last ability won't reduce the cost to cast Rakdos itself. It applies only to creature spells you cast once Rakdos is on the battlefield.

  • 2020-11-10

    If there are additional costs to cast a creature spell, such as a kicker cost or the commander tax, apply those increases before applying cost reductions.

  • 2020-11-10

    If an opponent lost life and subsequently lost the game, Rakdos's first ability is satisfied, and its last ability counts that loss of life.

  • 2020-11-10

    Rakdos's last ability can't reduce the colored mana requirement of a creature spell you cast.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Rakdos, Lord of Riots in the command zone.

Decks led 2 2 published. Browse them →
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.

Published decks

Decklists players have published with Rakdos, Lord of Riots in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Rakdos, Lord of Riots, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 3 1 —
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 1 0 —
Typhoid Mary, Fractured 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 5 decks

Rakdos, Lord of Riots price history

The Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander #230 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$2.17▲ $0.65 (42.8%)
Low $1.50 · High $2.53Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Nov 13, 2026$2.17
Nov 12, 2026$2.15
Nov 11, 2026$2.18
Nov 10, 2026$1.89
Nov 9, 2026$1.92
Nov 8, 2026$1.99
Nov 7, 2026$1.97
Nov 6, 2026$2.06
Nov 5, 2026$2.14
Nov 3, 2026$2.10
Nov 2, 2026$1.98
Oct 31, 2026$2.06
Oct 30, 2026$2.05
Oct 29, 2026$2.29
Oct 27, 2026$2.31
Oct 26, 2026$2.40
Oct 25, 2026$2.47
Oct 24, 2026$2.44
Oct 23, 2026$2.39
Oct 22, 2026$2.43
Oct 19, 2026$2.53
Oct 18, 2026$2.38
Oct 17, 2026$2.20
Oct 16, 2026$2.21
Oct 15, 2026$2.11
Oct 14, 2026$1.99
Oct 13, 2026$1.82
Oct 12, 2026$1.74
Oct 11, 2026$1.76
Oct 10, 2026$1.69
Oct 9, 2026$1.65
Oct 8, 2026$1.66
Oct 5, 2026$1.67
Oct 4, 2026$1.59
Oct 2, 2026$1.57
Oct 1, 2026$1.53
Sep 30, 2026$1.50
Sep 29, 2026$1.53
Sep 28, 2026$1.52

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Rakdos, Lord of Riots

7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

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Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.

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