Chaos Riots

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Shadow the Hedgehog leads a Rakdos tempo/theft build. The plan is to deploy hasty creatures, attack, let them die, and use Shadow's death-trigger draw to keep the hand full while Treasures and artifact mana accelerate. The commander's second ability makes artifact-fueled spells uncounterable, protecting the expensive finishers. Secondary paths are Super State on Shadow for 9 damage to every opponent per swing, and mass theft via Insurrection, Mob Rule, or Mutinous Massacre. Exsanguinate and Comet Storm provide reach. There is no hidden commander; Knuckles the Echidna is a Treasure engine, not a build-around. The deck is a mid-speed combat deck with no infinite combos and relies on opponents' boards for its best finisher.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Act of Aggression
  • 1 Act of Treason
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armor of Shadows
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Besmirch
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Broadcast Takeover
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Caught Red-Handed
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Eldrazi Obligator
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Eriette's Tempting Apple
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Furnace Reins
  • 1 Goblin Assault
  • 1 Grab the Reins
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Harness by Force
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Kari Zev's Expertise
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Lightning Serpent
  • 1 Lightning Skelemental
  • 1 Long-Bodied Grey Dog
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mass Mutiny
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Offalsnout
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Price of Loyalty
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spreading Insurrection
  • 1 Super State
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Take for a Ride
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temporary Insanity
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Traitorous Greed
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Word of Seizing
  • 1 Wrangle