Shadow the Hedgehog is one of the featured characters in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's ​​​​​​crossover set with the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Shadow comes in a Secret Lair drop alongside six other new-to-Magic cards featuring other charaꦕcters from the Sonic franchise. As a card, Shadow the Hedgehog is very powerful, with one of the best effects ever put on a card.

For🌄 a Shadow the Hedgehog Commander deck, you'll be playing a ton of cards with haste as Shadow's effect plays with that alongside having a sub-Treasure theme to make all yo💫ur spells unable to be interacted with. It's a fantastic commander if you like making creature copies and drawing cards.

Decklist

The decklist contains one planeswalker, 34 creatures, five sorceries, four instants, 14 artifacts, seven enchantments, and 34 lands​​​​​​. The deck is heavily creature-focused, with the other permanents 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:either being💞 Treasure token generators or mana roc♒ks to make your spells unable to be interacted with.

Key Cards

Shadow The Hedgehog

Shadow the Hedgehog is easily the best card in the deck, and one you always have access to. It turns any creature with haste dying into card draw, which is something many cards that create tokཧen copies do as they 💞are sacrificed at the end step.

The primary strength of Shadow comes from its chaos control ability. If any spell uses mana from an artifact, it has a split second. Split second essentially makes a spell unable to be interacted with, as no one can cast spells or use abilities if that spell is on the stack.

You want to use your mana from artifacts on your most important spells to make sure they resolve. It's often better to wait to cast them until you know you can cꦕast them with split second.

Knuckles The Echidna

Knuckles the Echidna acts as both a way to generate extra Treasure tokens and as a win condition. Knuckles turns all your creatures that deal damage into Treasure tokens, which can be combined with Shadow's effect to keep your future spells gaining split second. If a creature has double strike, it'll make two Treasures instead of one.

There are a ton of artifacts in the deck, including mana rocks, artifact creatures, and artifact lands. All of these, along with how many Treasure tokens you can create, make it trivial to reach the 30 artifact threshold you need to win the game with Knuckles' Treasure Hunter effect.

Rain Of Riches

The decklist has a ton of different ways to create Treasure tokens, including Rain of Riches itself. Rain of Riches turns your first spell you cast using mana from Treasure into one with cascade. This is an easy♊ way to get a two-for-one with any spell.

Rain of Riches gives your first spell that uses Treasure to cast cascade, not your first spell in general. S𒊎o if you want to cast a big spell with cascade but have another, smaller spell to play♈ first, make sure to not use any Treasure on the small spell.

Luckily, there are very few whiffs the deck can hit with cascade. The only major whiff would be a board wipe, which there are only a few of. Most of the time, you'll cascade into another permanent thanks�ꦏ� to the decklist's low non-permanent spell count.

Hellkite Tyrant

Hellkite Tyrant is a very versatile card, as it lets you get more mana rocks to use with Shadow's effect and can win you the game with its alternate win condition. You do need to deal combat dam꧂age to steal artifacts, but with its flying and trample, this is trivially done and will trigger even if just one damage get𝓰s through.

With how much ramping the deck can do, you can get Hellkite Tyrant on the battlefield early. You want Hellkite Tyrant on the battlefield as soon as you can, as the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:more mana rocks you steal, the more sp🦩ells you can cast without fear if Shadow is on the battlefield.

How To Play The Deck

General Game Plan

A Shadow the Hedgehog Commander deck is constantly making token creatures with haste that sacrifice themselves, drawing you cards with Shadow's effect. It is ♔very hard for your opponents to interact with, as most of your spells will have split second thanks to Shadow's chaos control ability.

The best permanents are the ones that create a token every turn. Urabrask's Forge, Lagomos, Hand of Hatred, and Rite of the Raging Storm are all gr🀅ea♏t for this and will help you to draw through your deck with Shadow on the battlefield.

The deck has a massive focus on Treasure tokens, as these can be used in tandem with chaos control to make spells have split second. Rakdos (black/red) is a color that needs to use different ramp tools to make mana fast, and Treasure is the main way to do that. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Unlike other Rakdos decks, Shadow can use these Treasures asꦗ both utility and as a win condition꧙.

You always want to use at least one mana from an artifact source when casting a spell​​​​​​. Shadow's chaos control triggers so long as at least one mana was spent from an artifact. Shadow's effect isn't once per turn, so you want to only c𝓀ast spells when you have an artifact to tap for them, 🍨so no opponent can interact with it and it'll always resolve.

Win Condition And Flaws

The primary win condition of the deck is winning through combat. Many of the cards that create tokens create powerful or evasive ones, and with creatures making up the majority of the deck, you'll be dwindling life totals down all throughout. The secondary win conditions are winning through alternate win conditions.

All of Knuckles the Echidna, Hellkite Tyrant, and Revel in Riches automatically win the game if you have a certain number of artifacts (with R🍒evel in Riches requiring specifically Treasure tokens). Hitting the threshold needed to win with these is very easy, and you'll likely find yourself winning with these permanents over combat if you can't break through defenses.

The biggest downside of the deck is its heavy focus on creatures. The majority of the deck consists of creatures, so it is very susceptible to board wipes. It can be hard to come back from one, as Rakdos doesn't have many great card draw spells. Shadow's card draw effect can help you to stabilize quicker, but if Shadow is removed first, it can be an uphill baꦦttle.