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Mahadi, Emporium Master I think its clear that Rakdos strategies tend to have creatures dying a lot, either your own or your opponents

However, it's better if you embrace the theme of the card, and that's exactly the design strategy Wizards should be pursuing when it comes to Commander

It was like experiencing our own Freaky Friday

Cards like Bident of Thassa (or Coastal Piracy, if you want to go there) go a long way in terms of making cards like Flying Men playable, and The Indomitable has the most relevant additional text on this sort of card that weve ever seen

Instead, If Szadek, Lord of Secrets would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards. That means you can keep building with every hit, and if you buff up Szadek, you can mill out your opponents even faster

A small handful of green creature ramp (like Ignoble Hierarch and Ilysian Caryatid ) round off the list