RakdosLegendary Creature — Scorpion Dragon RogueAkul the Unrepentant
Mana value4Rank#10,636
The Commander
Flying, trample
Sacrifice three other creatures: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery and only once each turn.
Guide
Gameplan
Akul is a 5/5 flyer that converts three small bodies into a free, much bigger creature card from hand each turn, cheating on mana and circumventing summoning costs. Flood the board with tokens and disposable creatures early, then sacrifice them to slam fatties and reanimation-tier threats while value engines reward the constant death. You win through evasive beats and snowballing creature advantage, often dumping multiple bombs over several turns.
Strengths
- Repeatable free creature 'cheating' that ignores mana value, enabling huge payoffs each turn
- Built-in evasion (flying + trample) makes the commander a real clock and a sac outlet in one
- Synergizes with both go-wide token strategies and big-mana fatties
- Black and red give deep tutors, sacrifice payoffs, and recursion
Weaknesses
- The ability needs three other creatures and is sorcery-speed/once per turn, so it's slow and board-dependent
- Heavily reliant on the commander staying alive; removal and tax effects stall the engine hard
- Sacrificing your own board can leave you vulnerable to wraths and overextension
- Wants both fodder and expensive payoffs in hand, creating awkward, top-heavy draws
Key Cards
- Bitterblossom — Creates a steady stream of free fodder every turn to fuel Akul's three-creature sacrifice.
- Pitiless Plunderer — Generates Treasure for each creature sacrificed, ramping you into bombs while you feed Akul.
- Mayhem Devil — Turns every sacrifice into direct damage, providing reach and a creature-light win path.
- Dragonlord Kolaghan — A high-impact creature you can cheat in that punishes opponents while pressuring with evasion.
- Grave Pact — Each creature you sacrifice forces opponents to sacrifice, devastating their boards as you fuel Akul.
- Sneak Attack — Redundant cheat-into-play effect that lets you slam fatties even without enough fodder.
Upgrade Path
Add fast, reliable token engines (Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, Endrek Sahr) and Treasure makers so you always have three bodies to sacrifice on curve. Increase the density of game-ending payoffs you cheat in—reanimation targets like Archon of Cruelty or Sheoldred—and tighten the aristocrats package with Blood Artist effects plus Goblin Bombardment for an instant-speed outlet. Finally, protect the engine with cheap recursion (Reassembling Skeleton, Gravecrawler) and commander protection like Lightning Greaves.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Beat down with Akul plus a parade of cheated-in fatties via flying/trample damage
- ▸Drain the table with aristocrats payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance
- ▸Burn opponents out with Mayhem Devil and Goblin Bombardment off mass sacrifice
- ▸Lock and grind the board with Grave Pact-style edicts until opponents have no creatures
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Akul is a free sac outlet that pairs perfectly with death-trigger payoffs and token generators.
- Reanimator/Cheat — The ability puts big creatures into play for free, rewarding a top-heavy threat curve.
- Tokens — Go-wide producers supply endless cheap fodder to feed the three-creature cost each turn.
- Sacrifice Combo — With a loop of recurring fodder and Mayhem Devil-style payoffs, Akul can pivot to incremental combo kills.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BR), by popularity.
