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Rakdos, the Muscle

Legendary Creature — Demon Mercenary MV 5

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What it does

Flying, trample

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile cards equal to its mana value from the top of target player's library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.

Sacrifice another creature: Rakdos gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Activate only once each turn.

Combos with Rakdos, the Muscle

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Doomsday Excruciator Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Exile each opponent's library
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Reckless Barbarian Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until your next end step
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Golgari Thug Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until end of turn
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite storm count
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until end of turn
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Blood Pet Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until your next end step
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Forsaken Miner Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Cast any number of spells from opponents' libraries
    • Exile each opponent's library
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Patron of the Arts Haunted Crossroads Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until your next end step
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Reckless Barbarian Pitiless Plunderer Haunted Crossroads Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until your next end step
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-04-12

    Use the mana value of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many cards to exile.

  • 2024-04-12

    If the sacrificed creature had X in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.

  • 2024-04-12

    You pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for cards played from exile with Rakdos's triggered ability. For example, if the exiled card is a land card, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

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

As a commander

Decks built with Rakdos, the Muscle in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 1
Wins 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Rakdos, the Muscle, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — 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
Mahadi, Emporium Master 1 1 —
Dargo, the Shipwrecker 1 0 —
Tymna the Weaver 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of Rakdos, the Muscle

4 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Rakdos, the Muscle — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

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.