How Rakdos accidentally broke Standard. 

Ah yes, Azorius Rakdos. A classic archetype.

The only reason people aren't instantly conceding is because, like myself, have no clue what's about to happen.

23:27 rare flustered LVD moment

I was so confused at first when the title said rakdos and the intro said blue white 😂

I appreciate any combo that kills the opponent in less than a dozen triggers. No goofing about goldfishing with your triggers, no death by a thousand cuts machinegunning people with 20 hits, you actually just kill 'em dead with hits for 9.

What I think is funny is how Rakdos the demon was sleeping during the entire phyrexian invasion but is awake when crime is happening

Luca messing with the opponents with his choice of card sleeves xD

Shortest infinite I’ve ever seen

Just saw CGB face this deck today and was also highly confused seeing Rakdos in an Azorius deck

Congratulations on 125k subscribers! This combo is so entertaining

of note, you don't need to "break the loop", you can just arrange the triggers so that the damage happens before the reanimation

29:17 “Our opponent plotting a show off here but it’s our time to show off” YOOOOO!!!

Had this smack me earlier today, spent about 10 minutes viewing battlefield, trying to figure out wtf happened.

Oh fun! another quick kill combo in standard.

Cool deck! Another deck idea that would be cool to see how you put it together is a treasure tribal with some of the new OTJ treasure related cards (Hell to Pay, Goldvein Hydra, Magda, Generous Plunderer, etc.) and something like crime novelist or gleaming geardrake that get huge when you sacrifice your treasures. Love the content!

Man the combo is so consistent that LVD pulled it off three times in a single game (but the third soul partition was probably the funniest part)

Azorius got so fed up with their wincons they decided it's their turn do the burning for once xD

Votekick has to be one of your best ones, nice showcase

played this deck today and i said no to the combo with kutzils flanker and my opponent promptly exploded. there is some really goofy stuff in standard right now lol.

Not quite what i had in mind for rakdos joins up this one looks fun!

Finally, i was waiting for this video.

Watching this immediately after cgb's new video calling this combo bad LOL, can't wait to see it in action

Worth Considering going into Esper for Lively Dirge. Spree card puts a card into your graveyard from library for 3 mana sorcery.

Now I may need to keep 2 of the 3/1 Cat to exile graveyards in my Esper pile.

i found this deck the day after the set dropped, was good, but i did what you did here and added some temporary lockdowns as the only thing that gave me problems was red aggro, it was just swarming me before i could get to 4 lands. the lockdowns helped. it's still like a 80% win rate deck.

This deck is fun!

I love your content and videos- top tier stuff as always, but man do I hate facing this on ladder; especially when I just don't draw my graveyard hate and they really do combo off on turn four.

Powerstone coming in clutch!

Rakdos is SO insanely good, even freaking Azorius uses him!!! xD

This is one of the most standard combos I've seen in a minute.

21:20 You can decline the Metamorph trigger so the creature won't get exiled to your own Temporary Lockdown

That fella with the infinite supply of Soul Partitions 🙄

Grand abolisher can be a nice tech to protect the combo.

Just played against this list. Had a "cut down", solved the issue fairly nicely. I'd consider this a meme deck, probably only usable in bo1, since bo3 has a enough graveyard hate in the sideboard. It also doesn't look all that consistent. My oppo had to dig through half his deck before he managed to get rakdos joins up into the graveyard, by that time I had basically already won the match.

Love the matches ending with Pew Pew Pew

29:18 "But it's our time to show off" Go off king

Oh no, now more people are going to find out about this D: I've been running a similar deck for about a week and people never expect to have to deal with the 1/1 on turn 4... You can also break the loop by selecting decline on the metamorph trigger. The ETB copy ability is a may...

I had this done to me and I thought it was awesome

While less effective because of mana costs, I believe encroaching mycosynth should also enable the combo, by making the enchantment (and all your nonland permanents) into artifacts, therefore enable the metamorph to copy the enchantment. Not too efficient, since it's a 3U artifact so that comes a few turns later, and specially worse given the current manabase can't support hard casting Rakdos Joins Up. Idk, it was my first thought while reading the deck tech. A bad one, but hey, someone will find a way to make this work knowing Encroaching mycosynth exists, surely

the number of people you left scratching their heads trying to figure out how you killed them, is what makes this video fantastic, what a creative combo, nicely done

so op combo

22:22 really puts the POWER in powerstone

You could always stack the triggers so the damage is dealt first.

Yeah buddy!

There's a MTG creator named Xaero. Seen him post a VERY similar deck 2 days ago, awesome concept!

If you reorder the triggers so that the damage triggers resolve before the return target creature trigger, you don't have to break the combo at an arbitrary point. May be helpful if your opponent is at a very high life total and you don't want to calculate how many damage triggers you need to actually win. This combo is fascinating to me because the legend rule enables it to bypass typical self-targeting limitations. Thanks to the legend rule, the Metamorph copy of Rakdos Joins Up dies before its own enter the battlefield trigger goes on the stack, allowing it to target itself in the graveyard. If you needed to manually sacrifice the card being returned form the graveyard each cycle, as is the case for many similar combos, you could still do it but only with two copies of the card in the graveyard. This is because by the time you would have priority to perform the sacrifice, the ETB trigger would already be on the stack, and thus have its target locked in. Since the legend rule kill the Metamorph copy as a state-based effect, it actually dies before the targets for its own ETB triggers are selected.

The only thing to stop its combo is saving a kill/burn spell and killing the 1/1 "Rakdos Joins Up" creature right after it targets Metamorph in the graveyard, (Metamorph not yet entering the battlefield). When the effect resolves, Metamorph will enter the battlefield without any creature to copy, thus it enters as a vanilla 7/7 plus two +1/+1 counters on it. Yes... you'll face a 9/9 creature because of this. But that's still better than died.

Cleanest combo kill on arena

Onto the next one 😂

Yay more combos that only blue can stop I love it.

I love watching these and I'm like this is an interesting deck. So I put it together and my next 10 games are going 2nd against mono Black hand hate decks and nothing else

Secret is out!

Came for Rakdos, stayed for the reanimator.

21:22 declining to copy keeps the MV above lockdown, and possibly gets you a turn later, soul partition really showing up against you though, likely a wiff just because of the exile on RJU regardless but it would have been awesome to see a win against such odds all really fun games to watch

Me thinking "he has a lockdown in hand, he has a lockdown in hand, HE HAS A LOCKDOWN IN HAND" - Okay, find another lockdown anyway 😂

I'm a simple man, i see rakdos joining up, i smash that like

Seems Case File Auditor would go well in this deck if you add discard effects.

If there's no second creature in your graveyard, you'd have to keep the copy and bin the animated enchantment to stop the loop, right? nevermind lol he did it at 29:45

infinite damage is in the second sentence on the video = like

I miss Invoke despair so much. It was such a good card for monoblack, but people kept running it in Esper decks essentially killing that fast.

Welp, time to add the fourth copy Kutzil's Flanker to my control deck

Totally unrelated, but I played you earlier today in ranked and just noped out and conceded when I saw Kumano. Trust me, it was best for both of us. You would have kicked my ass quick anyway.

Armored Scrapgorger and Tranquil Frillback has entered the chat.

Grandpa Rakdos still has some kick in it

I'm generally a fan of the standard expansion, but all of the combo decks are killing me. It feels like every day there's some new combo that pops up that I need to be able to deal with. .-.

Woah, this combo comes from nowhere and hits so hard! That awakening is just a broken card. Nice abuse of the legendary rule. Overall, a deck typically for lvd, but also one I'd expect from the mono black lord because of it's meme-characteristic 😂

Love when Wizards makes standard 3 years worth of sets and spent zero time playtesting anything.

Now this is pod racing

This is the type of infinite combo i like. Short and devastating. 💀

I also noticed you can end the loop by having metamorph just, not enter in as a copy of Rakdos.

I think you should definitely follow up on why we don’t have battlebond lands in precons. Commander being a multiplayer format not having the multiplayer format lands is a little bit of a smack in the face.

YES I HAVE WAITED FOR THE DAY I SEE LUCA SO STRESSED HE DOESNT SEE A CARD IN HIS HAND HAHAHA 23:15

First the worldsoul deck, now this. Standard is beginning to feel a little bit like modern sometimes.

23:20 the only epic fail you can find in this channel.

Busted AF

May a judge please explain exactly why a normal clone does not work, and it needs to be exactly that clone? Thanks.

This set is crazy. OTK outta nowhere everywhere. We're entering Yu-Gi-Oh territory here die turn 3 or get OTK.

Ahhh now I see. Went up against this deck yesterday. Was so confused on what their wincon was cuz they casted mending like 6 times before losing and I saw every single card in your list except rakdos. Lol, poor bastard just got unlucky I guess.

This deck is so easy to beat. Literally just hold removal for Rakdos. It was fun to play for a week when noone knew about. I would highly discourage anyone from making it at this point.

''Raktos' broke the meta'' *PLAYS F-ING YORE*

I love reanimator decks, but it's sad that it works better in blue white than in black.

Played against this, had no idea what was happening. Thankfully pilot never got to combo

Jeez……👀

Elesh Norn completely shuts this deck down, as I just discovered... :(

I'm upset that you made a video on this deck. Now my opponents will understand what is happening to them...

Me looking at the thumbnail thinking about current boros in standard. See the white symbol and go huh that isnt rakdos colors. Looks again sees blue and goes wait rakdos breaks standard by not being red black

The lockdown in hand: am i a joke to you.

Control decks are probably this deck worst match up. And has 3 layers of answers: Counter spells for the [Abuelo's Awakening]. [Kutzil's Flanker] for instant speed graveyard exile when [Abuelo's Awakening] is on the stack Instant Speed Enchantment removal like [Get Lost] amongst many others for [Rakdos Joins Up] to break the combo. And it seems like control decks are quite popular now on ladder.

I got hit by this two days ago 😅 I didn't even know what happened

It's a pretty some combo... Once you get everything in place lol

Title is misleading, I'm sure Rakdos is pleased to have broken a format, and would do it again if he wanted to. He just has such a comfy throne waiting for him on Ravnica he has to get back to.

Still not sure how this works? Its a legendary triggering itself? Is it just broken??

I’ve been wreaking this deck so easily it’s too fragile. But cool combo

at this point, i think the strongest card is a "counter"

zero thought involved perfect for the average mono red player

People are so excited to use Cut Down on a dumb 0/3 who's staring at the wall doing nothing while Cut Down is exactly what they need to stop your combo with only 1 mana. This deck won't look as good when people get used to it.

I faced this twice the first guy messed up and sacrificed the 1/1. The next time i was like oh this this does nothing i wont counter it....that opponent did it correctly lol

The real question is.. does the deck counts toward playing red or black cards to complete quests ? lol

How do people come up with this stuff 🤯

Just keep a spot removal and all is good.