Shadow (Copy) by Dart

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck leverages Shadow the Hedgehog to combine aristocrat card advantage, Treasure acceleration, and split second spellcasting. The deck accelerates through early mana rocks, rituals, and Treasure generation, pivoting into efficient tutors to assemble the compact two-card infinite combo of Dualcaster Mage and Electroduplicate. When artifact or Treasure mana is used to cast spells, Shadow grants split second, bypassing counterspells and flash interaction. If the primary creature combo is contested, the deck seamlessly transitions into an Underworld Breach and Ad Nauseam storm line, recycling rituals into a lethal Crackle with Power. Asymmetric stax elements such as Stranglehold and Dauthi Voidwalker delay opposing game plans while the deck structures its win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coalstoke Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
  • 1 Killmonger, Ruthless Usurper
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mages' Contest
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stranglehold
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tenacious Underdog
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus