Rakdos, Lord of Riots is the engine of this deck: by pinging opponents with small damage sources like pingers, enter-the-battlefield burn effects, and passive life drain early in the turn, the deck reduces the cost of massive creatures to nearly nothing, flooding the board with enormous threats for free or near-free. The deck then leverages those giant creatures' enter-the-battlefield damage, combat damage doublers, and extra combat phases to compound life loss and overwhelm opponents. The primary combo win involves Heartless Hidetsugu halving every opponent's life total, then Angrath's Marauders doubling that damage to eliminate any opponent at an even life total in a single activation.

Rakdos, Lord of Riots decklist

• Lightning Greaves
• Sandstone Oracle
• Foreboding Ruins
• Ancient Cellarspawn
• Infernal Sovereign
• Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• Bloodcrusher of Khorne
• Kolaghan's Command
• Knollspine Dragon
• Boltwave
• Florian, Voldaren Scion
• Grab the Prize
• Heartless Hidetsugu
• Jagged Barrens
• Nettle Drone
• Spear Spewer
• Anger
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Theater of Horrors
• Warstorm Surge
• Feed the Swarm
• Neheb, the Eternal
• Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• Angrath's Marauders
• Combat Celebrant
• Spinerock Knoll
• 9× Swamp
• Overpowering Attack
• Molten Gatekeeper
• Sunscorched Desert
• Faithless Looting
• 14× Mountain
• Tri-Sentinel, Act of Vengeance
• Meteor Golem
• Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
• Duplicant
• Exocrine
• Loyal Subordinate
• Tainted Peak
• Inferno Titan
• Vandalblast
• Arcane Signet
• Artisan of Kozilek
• Bane of Bala Ged
• Blasphemous Act
• Cryptolith Fragment
• Dragonskull Summit
• Fiery Confluence
• Pathrazer of Ulamog
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Rakdos Charm
• Rakdos Signet
• Rune-Scarred Demon
• Smoldering Marsh
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Stormfist Crusader
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Steel Hellkite
• Chaos Warp
• Creeping Bloodsucker
• Stonecoil Serpent
• Impact Tremors
• Sulfurous Springs
• Myriad Landscape
• Evolving Wilds
• Piranha Marsh
• Command Tower
• Haunted Ridge
• Sanctum of Stone Fangs
• Screamer-Killer
• Ancestral Statue
• Wayfarer's Bauble
• Thermo-Alchemist
• Demonlord Belzenlok
• Triplicate Titan
• Supernatural Stamina
• Undying Evil
• Undying Malice