Rakdos the Defiler
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}{R}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Demon
- Power / toughness
- 7 / 6
- Set
- Dissension #129 (rare)
- Price
- $1.60 USD
Flying, trample
Whenever Rakdos attacks, sacrifice half the non-Demon permanents you control, rounded up.
Whenever Rakdos deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices half the non-Demon permanents they control of their choice, rounded up.
Rakdos the Defiler has 2 printings, first in Dissension (2006). EDHREC ranks it #16,969 among Commander cards. It appears most in Rakdos, the Showstopper decks (221 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Rakdos the Defiler most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Rakdos, the Showstopper: 221 decks
- Rakdos, Patron of Chaos: 131 decks
- Boris Devilboon: 13 decks
Often played with Rakdos the Defiler
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A permanent with the subtype Demon, including Rakdos the Defiler itself, can't be sacrificed this way.
- : To calculate the number of permanents that must be sacrificed, count the number of permanents the affected player controls that don't have the subtype Demon, then divide that number in half and round up. For example, a player who controls eleven non-Demon permanents will need to sacrifice six of them.