MTG Salvation

As someone who has been squarely set as their favorite guild being Rakdos since the very first set we got guilds, I can say that this card is pretty disappointing.

Yep. Still people spouting this concept of 'Oh god, you can't have LD, Counterspells, or Mass Discard or Combo or anything else being good' but it's okay to have busted creatures and pretty much nothing else. Control literally doesn't even exist now, and now it's just the 1 to 2 mana creature decks vs Courser of Kruphix and midrange decks. Yes, this is clearly an awesome standard environment. Lots of diversity with half the top 8 decks playing 4x Goblin Rabblemaster and/or Courser of Kruphix.

The creatures in Magic now are so insane that they could probably reprint Mana Leak, Fact or Fiction, and/or Force of Will and it would still be fine, particularly when you can fill your deck with 30-34 creatures that are all insane and have absolutely no downside at all. You literally just play fatties until one of them sticks in Standard, and that's basically what 90% of games come down to.

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I quit playing B/R zombies because of Thragtusk, switched to a B/R control type. I don't mind playing match ups against it now. Slaughter games or Appetite for Brains are great answers to the card, or making them discard it with Rakdos Return, which is sort of rare due to people usually holding it back unless it's late game and you force them to play something else. If I know Thragtusk is in a deck, my first target with Slaughter games is usually Thragtusk.

Well that's my point. The card is so busted that its made an entire deck/archetype disappear. The only people defending this card are the people who enjoy abusing it and winning easy games.

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As someone who has been squarely set as their favorite guild being Rakdos since the very first set we got guilds, I can say that this card is pretty disappointing.

BR has a long and sad history of terrible Legendary Creatures. Olivia Voldaren, Mogis, God of Slaughter, Grenzo, Dungeon Warden and Vial Smasher the Fierce are the only ones generally agreed to be good. With Rakdos, Lord of Riots, The Scorpion God, Lyzolda, the Blood Witch and Xantcha, Sleeper Agent being potentially good when their gimmick works. Playing any of the others is a pretty much a handicap.

Thankfully, Judith, the Scourge Diva is super good because this Rakdos goes in the handicap bag. His stats are mediocre in Commander and Standard, while Modern and Eternal have much better demons to cheat in.

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As someone who has been squarely set as their favorite guild being Rakdos since the very first set we got guilds, I can say that this card is pretty disappointing.

Ya I agree. I am happy with Judith though.

So much hyperbole, I'm literally laughing out loud here. They will not break into your house at night and rip your cards up. When did Rumor Mill become RudyLand?