Chaos Control

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Shadow the Hedgehog leads a Rakdos swarm-and-burn deck: deploy hasty creatures, turn their deaths and combat damage into treasures, and then either burst with a huge Exsanguinate or turn Knuckles the Echidna into a Super State-enhanced double-strikers that hits every opponent at once. Shadow is a haste attacker, draw engine, and the source of Chaos Control, which makes spells cast with artifact mana uncounterable. The deck has no true infinite combo; it wins through incremental chip damage, card draw, and a massive red-black finishing burst. Hidden commander: none.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armor of Shadows
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Ball Lightning
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Call for Aid
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
  • 1 Changeling Berserker
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Spellslinger
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Garna, the Bloodflame
  • 1 Goblin Assault
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hellhole Rats
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Lightning Reaver
  • 1 Lightning Serpent
  • 1 Lightning Skelemental
  • 1 Long-Bodied Grey Dog
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Offalsnout
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Rain of Gore
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakka Mar
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spike Jester
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Sulfur Elemental
  • 1 Super State
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Undead Sprinter
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Withering Torment