RakdosLegendary Creature — Human ShamanLagomos, Hand of Hatred
Mana value3Rank#2,986
The Commander
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 2/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if five or more creatures died this turn.
Guide
Gameplan
Lagomos drips out a free 2/1 hasty Elemental every combat that you can throw at value or sacrifice for fuel, while your real engine is the tap ability: blow up the board (or your own tokens) so five-plus creatures die in a turn, then tutor any card to your hand. You play a sacrifice/aristocrats deck that grinds incremental damage and card advantage, then assembles a tutored combo or alpha strike to close.
Strengths
- Free recurring token every turn provides chump blockers, sac fodder, and chip damage at zero card cost.
- Repeatable any-card tutor is extremely powerful and color-agnostic—it finds combo pieces, answers, or finishers.
- Naturally synergizes with aristocrats payoffs (Blood Artist effects, Mayhem Devil) since the format is built around creatures dying.
- Cheap, recastable three-mana commander that demands little setup to start generating value.
Weaknesses
- The tutor needs five creatures dead in a turn, which can be hard to reach without board wipes, mass tokens, or edict effects.
- Color identity lacks blue/white, so no counterspells and limited interaction beyond removal.
- Reliant on the token engine and graveyard payoffs—graveyard hate and creature-token hate slow you down.
- Commander itself does little offensively and is vulnerable to repeated removal.
Key Cards
- Mayhem Devil — Pings opponents every time any of your sacrificed tokens or creatures die, turning the aristocrats engine into reach.
- Goblin Bombardment — Free sacrifice outlet that lets you dump Elementals and other creatures to hit the five-death threshold and deal damage.
- Pitiless Plunderer — Generates Treasure off every dying creature, ramping you while you feed the sacrifice machine.
- Bastion of Remembrance — A non-creature drain engine that punishes every death and stacks with Lagomos's constant token sacrifices.
- Grave Pact — Forces opponents to sacrifice whenever your creatures die, helping reach five deaths a turn while wrecking their boards.
- Skullclamp — Draws two cards each time a 2/1 token dies, refilling your hand off the disposable Elementals.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and efficient sac outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Carrion Feeder) so you trivially clear the five-death bar each turn and untap into the tutor. Build toward a compact two- or three-card combo the tutor can grab—persist creatures with Mayhem Devil and a free outlet—then back it with strong interaction like Deflecting Swat and Bedevil. Tighten the curve and add card filtering so the engine comes online by turn three or four.
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
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Zulaport Cutthroat as creatures die en masse.
- ▸Tutored combo loops (sacrifice engine plus Mayhem Devil or a persist/aristocrat loop) for infinite damage.
- ▸Repeated tutoring to find a haymaker like Torment of Hailfire or a big aggro finisher.
- ▸Go-wide trample beatdown backed by anthem effects and a steady stream of hasty Elementals.
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Constant token sacrifices plus death-trigger payoffs drain the table and fuel the tutor.
- Combo — The repeatable any-card tutor reliably assembles two-card kills like Mayhem Devil plus mass sac loops.
- Sacrifice/Tokens — Lagomos manufactures free fodder and rewards mass deaths, making token and sac-outlet shells natural.
- Stax — Edict and Grave Pact effects pressure opponents while you profit from every creature that dies.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BR), by popularity.
