Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

---

This time I try out Nathan Steuer's PT-winning Rakdos deck.

In a recent column at CoolStuffInc I'd argued that this deck was built not for a "regular" metagame, but the Pro Tour's so-called "Winners' Metagame". How does Our Hero do transplanting it to regular old Arena?

One way to find out!

Steuer's winning Rakdos list:

3 Cut Down
2 Duress
1 Abrade
4 Go for the Throat
1 Light Up the Night
4 Reckoner Bankbuster
4 Bloodtithe Harvester
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
2 Graveyard Trespasser
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
4 Invoke Despair
10 Swamp
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Mountain
2 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Haunted Ridge
4 Sulfurous Springs
2 Chandra, Hope's Beacon

Sideboard
2 Duress
2 Razorlash Transmogrant
2 Lithomantic Barrage
2 Glistening Deluge
1 Abrade
2 Liliana of the Veil
1 Cut Down
1 Rotten Reunion
1 Soul Transfer
1 Obliterating Bolt

The Winners' Metagame on CoolStuffInc:
coolstuffinc.com/a/michaelflores-05092023-the-winners-metagame

Companion blog post on FiveWithFlores:
fivewithflores.com/2023/05/light-up-the-night

LOVE
MIKE