I was trying to find a new deck to play in Standard recently and I stumbled upon a cool looking deck that Darh Xero used to get second place at a pizza box open. What's a pizza box open? I'm not sure but this list looked sweet! It is Rakdos but it's focused on generating powerstones to ramp like the old Izzet Powerstone deck. It's powering out Cityscape Levelers, Phyrexian Fleshgorger, and Portal to Phyrexia! I liked that you could cast Phyrexian Fleshgorger on curve for three and get it back later with Portal to Phyrexia or even Takenuma. Playing this deck was a nice change of pace but I do find it funny yet another Rakdos variant is good. I feel like Black/X decks are just dominating Standard now. If you play Standard, you most likely have most of these cards, check out the video below. The deck can make some powerful plays but isn't quite tier one.

Here's the list!

Time Stamps:

02:08 - Match 1

07:32 - Match 2

26:54 - Match 3

Rakdos Artifacts | MAT Standard | Darth Xero

• Creatures (15)
• 3 Phyrexian Fleshgorger
• 4 Bloodthirsty Adversary
• 4 Cityscape Leveler
• 4 Thran Spider

• Instants (6)
• 3 Go for the Throat
• 3 Sheoldred's Edict

• Sorceries (6)
• 2 Excavation Explosion
• 4 Gix's Caress

• Artifacts (7)
• 1 Portal to Phyrexia
• 2 The Celestus
• 4 The Mightstone and Weakstone

• Lands (26)
• 2 Mountain
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 2 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 3 Mirrex
• 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 4 Haunted Ridge
• 4 Sulfurous Springs

• Sideboard (15)
• 3 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
• 2 Cut Down
• 3 Duress
• 2 Lithomantic Barrage
• 2 Path of Peril
• 3 Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton

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Ali Aintrazi

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