BudgetShadow by Seeno3vil

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is built around Shadow the Hedgehog, leveraging aggressive creature token generation, aristocrat sacrifice engines, and high-velocity spell combos. Shadow provides recurring card replenishment whenever hasty or flashing creatures die, while its Chaos Control ability grants split second to spells cast with artifact mana, severely restricting opposing countermagic. The primary win condition revolves around compact two-card combos, notably Dualcaster Mage plus Twinflame to generate an infinite army of hasty 2/2 attackers, and Storm-Kiln Artist with Chain of Smog to produce infinite Treasure tokens and Magecraft triggers. A dense suite of low-cost rituals, Treasure producers, and black tutors ensures rapid assembly by Turn 4. Supporting lines like Underworld Breach and Bolas's Citadel provide strong recovery and alternative explosive finishes. While vulnerable to instant-speed spot removal targeting creature triggers, the deck presents an explosive, resilient combo clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Reckless Lackey
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thatcher Revolt
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Woe Strider