Devil-blades and dripping blood make music Rakdos never tires of hearing.

Classic 12-land aggro strategy. Basically, the idea here is to get at least a Mountain or Blood Crypt or Swamp (or two, or three etc...) in your opening hand and a couple 1 or 2 drops, like Rakdos Cackler and Ash Zealot, and then just go at it.

ONTO THE CARDS

THE CREATURES

Ash Zealot - All around great red beatstick, with some graveyard hate to boot (not that that matters in standard anymore)

Chandra's Phoenix - Pretty good flyer, if you manage to get to 3 mana

Deathbellow Raider - Since this deck isn't gonna really do that much blocking anyway, what we have here is a 2/3 for 2 that regenerates. In red.

Legion Loyalist - One of the best 1-drops in red, hands down, IMO. Giving all your dudes first strike and trample is no joke, and the token hate is icing on the cake.

Rakdos Cackler - 2/2 for 1. Hybrid mana. We're done here.

Spike Jester - 3/1 for 2 with haste, the 1 body just means we won't really be blocking with it. See Deathbellow Raider

Tormented Hero - A 2/1 for 1. Not as good as a 2/2 for 1 ( Rakdos Cackler ), but can chump block if necessary and also has the heroic ability so I can ping him if I need that one extra life/damage or something (haha jk I'll probably never need to ping him)

THE NOT-CREATURES

Doom Blade - Great removal.

Hero's Downfall - Ditto.

Lightning Strike - Great red instant-damage spell.

Magma Jet - Not as good as Lightning Strike, but lets you scry 2.

Shock - 1 Mana burn spell. Not much to dislike here.

Underworld Connections - What do you do if you're sitting on 3 lands with nothing to cast? Pay 1 life!

THE SIDEBOARD

Dark Betrayal - Replaces Doom Blade in certain matchups.

Deathrite Shaman - He's a dude that does things and is mostly a maybeboard for this deck and I kinda just added him to the side to fill it up.

Lifebane Zombie - Great 3/1 Intimidate body and also G/W hate.

Mountain/Swamp - Insurance.

Ultimate Price - See Dark Betrayal .