Shadow by AndK

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Rakdos midrange engine commanded by Shadow the Hedgehog. The strategy centers around capitalizing on creatures with haste and flash dying during combat or end steps to draw cards, converting natural creature attrition into steady card advantage. Simultaneously, the deck amasses high volumes of Treasure tokens through enablers like Professional Face-Breaker, Pitiless Plunderer, Cavern-Hoard Dragon, and The Reaver Cleaver. These Treasures serve a dual purpose: accelerating into decisive burn and life-drain finishers like Exsanguinate, Mirkwood Bats, and Mayhem Devil, while activating Shadow's Chaos Control ability. By spending artifact and Treasure mana to cast key spells, every critical spell gains Split Second, rendering opposing counterspells and activated abilities completely useless during the winning turn. Supported by targeted redirection, creature recursion, and board wipes, the deck reliably grinds down opponents before closing the game in one decisive burst.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ajani Unrelenting
• 1 Ajani's Anguish
• 1 Alchemist's Talent
• 1 Anger
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Money
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Coin of Mastery
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drossforge Bridge
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Face Yourself
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fire Diamond
• 1 Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1 Glittering Stockpile
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
• 1 Knuckles the Echidna
• 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 9 Mountain
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Power Depot
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Rain of Riches
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Sabin, Master Monk
• 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
• 1 Scene of the Crime
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Super State
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
• 1 Tempt with Immortality
• 1 Tempt with Vengeance
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Undead Sprinter
• 1 Unexpected Windfall
• 1 Urabrask's Forge
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Xorn