Shadow by user2800758

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Rakdos Aristocrats and Treasure engine piloted by Shadow the Hedgehog. The strategy focuses on deploying disposable haste and flash creatures that draw cards when they die, fueled by token engines like Urabrask's Forge, Chandra, Acolyte of Flame, and Loyal Apprentice. As these creatures attack and perish, they trigger consistent card advantage while cards like Pitiless Plunderer, Captain Lannery Storm, and Professional Face-Breaker generate a steady hoard of Treasure tokens. The deck turns this mana surplus and card velocity into a decisive finish by casting massive game-ending spells such as Plague of Vermin, Bolas's Citadel, or Army of the Damned. By spending mana produced from Treasure artifacts to cast these spells, Shadow's Chaos Control ability grants them split second, preventing opponents from responding on the stack. Paired with aristocrat drain pieces like Mirkwood Bats, Blood Artist, and Zulaport Cutthroat, the deck drains the entire table in one uncounterable burst.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dockside Extortionist
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Kratos, God of War
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Last Chance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
  • 1 Loki's Scepter
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Madame Masque
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rankle and Torbran
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat