Chaos Controlled by IndominusPrime87

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadow the Hedgehog

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Rakdos synergy build piloted by Shadow the Hedgehog, blending treasure-fueled ramp, haste beatdown, and aristocrat card draw. The commander's defining feature is Chaos Control, which grants split second to any spell cast using mana from an artifact. By flooding the board with Treasure tokens via cards like Professional Face-Breaker, Pitiless Plunderer, Goldspan Dragon, and Captain Lannery Storm, the deck can cast game-ending spells like Torment of Hailfire, Bolas's Citadel, and Living Death completely uncounterable and immune to opposing activated abilities. The early turns focus on deploying 2-CMC mana rocks and haste enablers, establishing Shadow on Turn 4 to attack immediately and draw cards whenever haste or flash creatures die. In the mid-to-late game (Turns 6–7), accumulated Treasure reserves facilitate decisive haymakers or explosive combat steps boosted by Fiery Emancipation and Super State. Efficient spot removal, redirect spells, and board wipes maintain table control until the lethal push.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hullcarver
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lavaclaw Reaches
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resurrection Orb
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast