How to play the Rakdos Anvil deck in Magic: The Gathering

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With any new Magic: The Gathering expansion comes new decks and ways to play. More often than not, quite a few decks remain at the top of the pile for months.

However, some interesting deck concepts come from the past few expansions. Between Streets of New Capenna and Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, a powerful Rakdos combo has appeared.

It’s not the same near-infinite nonsense that Rakdos Sacrifice had before, but it’s easily one of the best decks in the game right now, especially in best-of-one modes like in Magic: The Gathering Arena.

There was a powerful combo in the last Standard rotation, Witch’s Cauldron+Cauldron Familiar. It was a combo that could be repeated every single turn to deal damage to players and gain life simultaneously.

This particular combo is built around the relatively new Oni-Cult Anvil, which does something incredibly similar. The Oni-Cult Anvil gives players who own it a 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token whenever one or more artifacts leave the battlefield that they control on their turn.

This can only happen once per turn, limiting how many Constructs can be made. Oni-Cult Anvil can be tapped to sacrifice an artifact. Then Oni-Cult Anvil deals one damage to each opponent and grants the owner one life. So the player can sacrifice a Blood Token or Treasure Token to deal one damage and thus create a Construct.

The player can sacrifice the Construct next turn, which makes another Construct as a result. Players whittle away at their foes and combine this with The Meathook Massacre to change it to 2 damage and 1 point of life gained a turn.

This Magic: The Gathering deck finishes foes off with Anje, Maid of Dishonor, or a slowly-growing Immersturm Predator. Depending on how much mana and how many Blood