Rakdos Midrange
Also known as: Gothic Moon
Rakdos Midrange is a proactive deck looking to leverage high individual card quality to beat opponents into submission. It is well equipped to fight over the board against aggro and midrange decks, while having disruptive and aggressive tools to pressure combo and control decks with the right mulligans. Disruption comes in the form of hand attack like Thoughtseize and nonbasic land hate in Blood Moon, while threats like Death-Greeter's Champion and Gut, True Soul Zealot can put opponents on a 3-turn clock.
Example Decklist
Rakdos Midrange
By: witty
Event: Game Underground Weekly - 1st/2nd
Date: 2025-09-17
Points (10): Mox Jet (3), Mox Ruby (3), Vampiric Tutor (2), Ancient Tomb (1), Reanimate (1)
Creatures (37)
- 1Deathrite Shaman
- 1Nethergoyf
- 1Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
- 1Stalactite Stalker
- 1Bloodtithe Harvester
- 1Dauthi Voidwalker
- 1Deep-Cavern Bat
- 1Emperor of Bones
- 1Fear of Missing Out
- 1Gau, Feral Youth
- 1Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
- 1Ivora, Insatiable Heir
- 1Orcish Bowmasters
- 1Spider-Punk
- 1Barrowgoyf
- 1Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp //
- 1Broadside Bombardiers
- 1Carnage Interpreter
- 1Detective's Phoenix
- 1Gut, True Soul Zealot
- 1Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1Magus of the Moon
- 1Opposition Agent
- 1Screaming Nemesis
- 1Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1Tersa Lightshatter
- 1Veronica, Dissident Scribe
- 1Caves of Chaos Adventurer
- 1Grief
- 1Headliner Scarlett
- 1Pyrogoyf
- 1Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1Fury
- 1Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1Oliphaunt
- 1Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (10)
- 1Chain Lightning
- 1Dread Fugue
- 1Duress
- 1Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1Reanimate
- 1Thoughtseize
- 1Unearth
- 1Hymn to Tourach
- 1Molten Collapse
- 1Life // Death //
Instants (11)
- 1Fatal Push
- 1Galvanic Discharge
- 1Lightning Bolt
- 1Unholy Heat
- 1Vampiric Tutor
- 1Abrade
- 1Price of Progress
- 1Dismember
- 1Fire Covenant
- 1Kolaghan's Command
- 1Snuff Out
Artifacts (5)
- 1Chrome Mox
- 1Mox Diamond
- 1Mox Jet
- 1Mox Ruby
- 1Unlicensed Hearse
Enchantments (3)
- 1Animate Dead
- 1Blood Moon
- 1Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
Lands (30)
- 1Ancient Tomb
- 1Arena of Glory
- 1Arid Mesa
- 1Badlands
- 1Bayou
- 1Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1Blazemire Verge
- 1Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
- 1Blood Crypt
- 1Bloodstained Mire
- 1City of Traitors
- 1Den of the Bugbear
- 1Dragonskull Summit
- 1Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1Karakas
- 1Marsh Flats
- 3Mountain
- 1Polluted Delta
- 1Prismatic Vista
- 1Raucous Theater
- 1Scalding Tarn
- 1Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1Sulfurous Springs
- 3Swamp
- 1Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1Verdant Catacombs
- 1Volrath's Stronghold
- 1Wasteland
- 1Wooded Foothills
