Shadow the Hedgehog by XoloMTG

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos aristocrats-combo deck helmed by Shadow the Hedgehog. The plan is to flood the board with hasty value creatures and treasure generators, then convert death triggers into cards, mana, and life-drain until a two- or three-card loop closes the game. Shadow the Hedgehog contributes haste (attacking the turn he is cast), draws a card whenever he or another flash/haste creature dies, and grants split second to any spell paid for with artifact mana-turning treasures and rocks into uncounterable combo turns. Primary wins are infinite sacrifice loops pairing Gravecrawler or Nether Traitor with outlets and drain pieces (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mayhem Devil, Marionette Apprentice), backed by Exsanguinate, Living Death, and combat pressure from tokens and hasty threats. The deck plays as a midrange engine that suddenly goes infinite once the right pieces connect.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avenger of the Fallen
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Generous Plunderer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necron Deathmark
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undead Sprinter
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat