Shadow the Hedgehog by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This Rakdos combo deck is designed to assemble game-ending infinite lines swiftly and protect them decisively. Commanded by Shadow the Hedgehog, the list leverages Chaos Control to grant split second to key spells whenever artifact or Treasure mana is spent, effectively locking opponents out of the stack during critical turns. The primary win condition combines Twinflame and Dualcaster Mage to generate an infinite army of hasty tokens, alongside clean backup routes through Hoarding Broodlord, Saw in Half, and Magda, Brazen Outlaw with Clock of Omens. A dense suite of fast mana, rituals, and black tutors guarantees high assembly velocity, while free interaction like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick keeps opposing threats in check. The deck transitions seamlessly from early acceleration into a protected Turn 4 same-turn kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Cultist
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disruptor Flute
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortuary
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sulfurous Mire
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xorn