Shredder the shadow master by user6061375

Format: Commander

Commander: Shredder, Shadow Master

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Shredder, Shadow Master to aggressively dismantle opposing life totals in parallel. Shredder's attack trigger creates non-legendary token copies that attack every other opponent, halving each defending player's life total after combat damage is dealt. Supported by mono-black ramp and mana doublers such as Crypt Ghast and Cabal Coffers, the deck reliably casts Shredder by Turn 4 or 5. Equipping evasion pieces like Brotherhood Regalia, Whispersilk Cloak, or Lightning Greaves ensures the commander and its clones connect cleanly. When combined with Bloodletter of Aclazotz, a single combat phase eliminates all three opponents simultaneously due to doubled combat damage and doubled life-loss triggers. If combat stalls, secondary finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Massacre Wurm, and large Exsanguinate casts close out the game. The deck features robust creature removal and death-protection instants, though it remains vulnerable to artifact-based combos, countermagic, and mass exile sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Prowler's Helm
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Underworld Connections
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Worn Powerstone