Chaos Control

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck combines aggressive aristocrat engines, treasure generation, and a compact spellslinger combo centered on Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame. Commanded by Shadow the Hedgehog, the deck leverages fast mana like Dark Ritual and Chrome Mox alongside seven universal tutors to reliably execute a Turn 4 win. Shadow's Chaos Control passive turns ordinary treasure and artifact mana into uncounterable split-second combo attempts, severely restricting opponent responses. Beyond its primary combo, the list maintains strong midrange resilience through treasure generation from Warren Soultrader and Professional Face-Breaker, aristocrat burn from Mayhem Devil and Mirkwood Bats, and explosive recursion via Underworld Breach. Free protective spells like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick safeguard your board, while Saw in Half provides an independent backup win line. The result is a fast, resilient, and highly protected combo-aristocrats build.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Garna, the Bloodflame
  • 1 Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Netherborn Altar
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Squee, Dubious Monarch
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat