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Rakdos Cycle
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Est deck cost: $289.10
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Commander

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Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant

Flying, haste Whenever Bladewing deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, for each creature card in your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature token with menace.

Creature
Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant (dmc) 9

Commander

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Anthem

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Anger

Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (ltc) 210

Anthem

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Draw

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Altar of the Wretched

Artifact
Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10
Anje's Ravager

This creature attacks each combat if able. Whenever this creature attacks, discard your hand, then draw three cards. Madness {1}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Anje's Ravager (c19) 22
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (ltc) 215
Greasewrench Goblin

Exhaust — {2}{R}: Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Creature
Greasewrench Goblin (dft) 132
Imposing Grandeur

Each player may discard their hand and draw cards equal to the greatest mana value of a commander they own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Sorcery
Imposing Grandeur (voc) 24
Knollspine Dragon

Flying When this creature enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

Creature
Knollspine Dragon (ltc) 224
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Moria Scavenger

Deathtouch, haste {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card. If the discarded card was a creature card, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Creature
Moria Scavenger (ltc) 63
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

Trample Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, draw that many cards and add that much {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

Creature
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion (dmc) 125
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (ltc) 229

Draw

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Finisher

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Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Banner of Kinship (fdn) 127
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, God of the Forge (cmm) 246
Shared Animosity

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking creature that shares a creature type with it.

Enchantment
Shared Animosity (ltc) 226

Finisher

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Land

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Accursed Duneyard

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Regenerate target Shade, Skeleton, Specter, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, or Zombie. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Accursed Duneyard (drc) 36
Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Bloodsoaked Insight

Sorcery
Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252
Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (akh) 239
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (ltc) 301
Conduit Pylons

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
Dakmor Salvage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land
Dakmor Salvage (uma) 240
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (otc) 289
Drownyard Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Land
Drownyard Temple (clb) 892
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (afc) 238
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (cmm) 1000
Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Hidden Grotto

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Hidden Grotto (blb) 254
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 289
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Pinnacle Monk

Creature
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246
Restless Vents

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Land
Restless Vents (lci) 284
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (c20) 309
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (ltc) 332
Sundering Eruption

Sorcery
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 286

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Landcycling

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Bedhead Beastie

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Bedhead Beastie (dsk) 125
Oliphaunt

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. Mountaincycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Oliphaunt (ltr) 139
Rampaging Spiketail

When this creature enters, target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Rampaging Spiketail (lci) 116
Seismic Monstrosaur

Trample {2}{R}, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card. Mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Seismic Monstrosaur (lci) 166
Spectral Snatcher

Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.) Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Spectral Snatcher (dsk) 116
Troll of Khazad-dûm

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures. Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Troll of Khazad-dûm (ltr) 111

Landcycling

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Mill

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Barrowgoyf

Deathtouch, lifelink Barrowgoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may mill that many cards. If you do, you may put a creature card from among them into your hand.

Creature
Barrowgoyf (m3c) 50
Blight Titan

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill two cards, then incubate X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Creature
Blight Titan (moc) 112
Cemetery Tampering

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill three cards. Then if there are twenty or more cards in your graveyard, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Cemetery Tampering (snc) 69
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Screeching Scorchbeast

Flying, menace Whenever this creature attacks, each player gets two rad counters. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, you may create that many 2/2 black Zombie Mutant creature tokens. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Screeching Scorchbeast (pip) 49
Stinkweed Imp

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Stinkweed Imp (mma) 98
Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Stitcher's Supplier (m19) 121
Undead Butler

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) When this creature dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Undead Butler (vow) 133
Unshakable Tail

When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {2}, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Unshakable Tail (mkc) 339
Vault 12: The Necropolis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Each player gets three rad counters. II — Create X 2/2 black Zombie Mutant creature tokens, where X is the total number of rad counters among players. III — Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control that's a Zombie or Mutant.

Enchantment
Vault 12: The Necropolis (pip) 51
Wreckage Wickerfolk

Flying When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature Artifact
Wreckage Wickerfolk (dft) 110

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (ltc) 276
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (fdn) 254
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (afc) 214
Scampering Surveyor

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Scampering Surveyor (lci) 260
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (fdc) 2
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (fdn) 729
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (m3c) 312
The Balrog of Moria

Trample, haste When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it. When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls. Cycling {3}{R} ({3}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create two Treasure tokens.

Creature
The Balrog of Moria (ltc) 129
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (mh3) 298

Ramp

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Recursion

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Champion of Stray Souls

{3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. {5}{B}{B}: Put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature
Champion of Stray Souls (c19) 109
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (ddq) 55
From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 671
Lich-Knights' Conquest

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lich-Knights' Conquest (woe) 338
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (ltc) 206
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278

Recursion

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Chupacabra Echo

Fathomless descent — When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Chupacabra Echo (lci) 97
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (ltc) 199
Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Fleshbag Marauder (cmr) 128
Harvester of Misery

Menace When this creature enters, other creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. {1}{B}, Discard this card: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Harvester of Misery (big) 39
Ingot Chewer

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Ingot Chewer (cm2) 110
Merciless Executioner

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Merciless Executioner (ltc) 204
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (grn) 82
Rampaging War Mammoth

Trample Cycling {X}{2}{R} ({X}{2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, destroy up to X target artifacts.

Creature
Rampaging War Mammoth (ltc) 117
Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Shriekmaw (afc) 110
Stalactite Stalker

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.) {2}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Stalactite Stalker (lci) 122
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 412
Trumpeting Carnosaur

Trample When this creature enters, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Creature
Trumpeting Carnosaur (lci) 171

Removal

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Tutor

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Beseech the Mirror

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (pwoe) 82p

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Cryptcaller Chariot

Menace Whenever you discard one or more cards, create that many tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Crew 2

Artifact
Cryptcaller Chariot (dft) 80
Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on this enchantment, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it. If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Out of the Tombs (40k) 46
Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44

Maybeboard

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Let's discard/mill some creatures\\, connect with the commander during an opening, then swing a bunch of zombies to win\n"}]}
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