# Spider-Man Rakdos Sinister Six

- Format: Standard (casual 60-card constructed), intended for two players.
- Colors: black and red.
- List: [spm-rakdos-sinister-six.csv](spm-rakdos-sinister-six.csv).
- Guide (Spanish): [guide_spm-rakdos-sinister-six.html](guide_spm-rakdos-sinister-six.html).
- Composition: 19 creatures, 18 other spells, 23 lands.
- Sources: only cards recorded in the Spider-Man CSV, plus basic lands.
- Status: proposal, not a record of cards removed from available inventory.

This collection-limited alternative replaces the original Rakdos Mayhem deck's
aggressive discard plan with a Villain graveyard strategy. It is for casual
play, not a tournament Standard legality claim. It shares nonbasic cards with
the other Spider-Man proposals, so treat the lists as alternative builds unless
extra copies or proxies are available.

## Game plan

1. Fill the graveyard with Venomized Cat, Risky Research, Deadly Precision
   and Masked Meower while developing cheap creatures. Venom's Hunger (three
   mana with a Villain out) and Scorpion's Sting keep the board clear.
2. Use Tombstone to recover Villains and reduce their costs. Agent Venom
   replaces creatures that die, while Scorpion turns each exchange into a
   connive trigger.
3. Reanimate individual threats with Prison Break. Carnage is omitted so the
   deck can focus on larger Villains and a wider range of names.
4. Resolve Behold the Sinister Six! after six differently named creatures
   reach the graveyard. Villainous Wrath can clear the board before the rebuild.

## Opening hands

Keep two or three lands with access to both colors, an early creature and a way
to load or inspect the graveyard. Risky Research into Tombstone is the cleanest
start. Avoid hands made entirely of five- and seven-mana finishers, or hands
where the only early action is a reanimation spell with no target.

## Important interactions

- Risky Research can place creatures directly into the graveyard before drawing
  two cards. Count the names already there before committing Behold the
  Sinister Six!.
- Tombstone returns a Villain when it enters and reduces later Villain spells
  by one generic mana. It can return another Tombstone, but not Agent Venom.
- Agent Venom triggers when another nontoken creature dies. It does not trigger
  for itself, tokens or cards milled directly into the graveyard.
- Scorpion checks at the beginning of the end step. Any creature that died
  during the turn enables one connive trigger.
- Prison Break can be discarded and cast for mayhem later, but its target must
  already be in the graveyard when the spell is cast.
- Villainous Wrath counts the opponent's creatures before destroying all
  creatures. Agent Venom may draw cards for your other nontoken creatures that
  die in the wipe.

## List conventions

The CSV uses the same 24 columns, in the same order, as the collection's precon
exports. Nonbasic metadata comes from
[the Spider-Man opening](<../../../booster-pulls/Marvel's%20Spider-Man%20(SPM)/cards.csv>).
This casual list may use SPM, SPE and MAR rows from that file. Selected copies
never exceed recorded quantities or the four-copy limit. Regular copies are
preferred when available. Prices come from the export, not a fresh market
quote, and `Value_USD` is recalculated for the selected copies.

Enough basic lands are assumed available. Their quantities use
`Quantity_Regular` as a planning convention, not a verified finish. Printing,
condition, price and image fields remain blank. There is no sideboard.