The Lord of Pain card art

Rated deck

Rakdos

Commanded by The Lord of Pain

100 cards. No tracked games yet.

How it has actually done

Not a rating — results from Commander games recorded at a table. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.

Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
MMR — No rated games yet.

Bracket 4 — Optimized

A floor, not a verdict — read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.

Game Changers 11
Tutors 5
Fast mana 6 Sol Ring excluded — it's in precons.
Extra turns 0

Running 2 stax pieces — what stax means.

  • 11 Game Changers — any at all puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above
  • 11 Game Changers, past the three Bracket 3 allows

What it's built out of

Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100 — a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count; see the 100-card commander deck template.

Slot by slot — every targeted slot is inside its tolerance band
Slot In the deck Target Verdict
Lands 34 34 On target
Ramp 19 18 On target
Card advantage 9 10 On target
Spot removal 7 7 On target
Board wipes 2 2 On target
Creatures 18 17 On target
Recursion 3 3 On target
Protection 1 3 On target
Tutors 5 2 On target
Artifacts 11 11 On target
Counterspells 0 2 On target
Enchantments 15 — No target
Instants 11 — No target
Sorceries 14 — No target
Graveyard hate 1 — No target
Token makers 3 — No target
Sacrifice outlets 3 — No target
Stax pieces 2 — No target

Mana curve

Average mana value 3.02 across 66 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.

  • 0-1 11
  • 2 19
  • 3 14
  • 4 11
  • 5 6
  • 6 2
  • 7+ 3

The decklist

100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page — win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.

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Commander
1 The Lord of Pain

Deck
1 Abrade
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Animate Dead
1 Arcane Signet
1 Archfiend of Despair
1 Arid Mesa
1 Badlands
1 Bastion of Remembrance
1 Bedevil
1 Beseech the Mirror
1 Black Market Connections
1 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Blightstep Pathway
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodchief Ascension
1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
1 Brash Taunter
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Canyon Slough
1 Castle Doom
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Chaos Warp
1 Chrome Mox
1 Command Tower
1 Dark Ritual
1 Deadly Rollick
1 Deflecting Swat
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Exquisite Blood
1 Faithless Looting
1 Fate Unraveler
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Fiery Emancipation
1 Foreboding Ruins
1 Graven Cairns
1 Haunted Ridge
1 Imp's Mischief
1 Imperial Seal
1 Jeska's Will
1 Kaervek the Merciless
1 Kardur, Doomscourge
1 Kederekt Parasite
1 Luxury Suite
1 Mana Vault
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mind Stone
1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
1 Mountain
1 Mox Diamond
1 Necropotence
1 Night's Whisper
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Painful Quandary
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Prismatic Vista
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Razorkin Needlehead
1 Reanimate
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scrawling Crawler
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Sign in Blood
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sol Ring
1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
1 Spinerock Knoll
1 Spiteful Visions
1 Stormfist Crusader
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Swamp
1 Tainted Peak
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Terminate
1 The One Ring
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Underworld Dreams
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Wheel of Misfortune
1 Witch's Clinic
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Wound Reflection

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