Card
Rakdos the Defiler
Mana cost {2}{B}{B}{R}{R}
Legendary Creature — Demon 7/6
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DIS · #129
- Cheapest printing
- €1.09
- EDHREC salt
- 0.72
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- Flying, Trample
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2006-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
A permanent with the subtype Demon, including Rakdos the Defiler itself, can't be sacrificed this way. - 2006-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
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.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast