Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Red Death, Shipwrecker

Red Death, Shipwrecker

Legendary Creature — Crab Mutant · {U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

Alluring Eyes — {T}: Goad target creature an opponent controls. That player draws a card. You add {R}. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Build a Red Death, Shipwrecker deck →

What Red Death, Shipwrecker actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{T}: Goad target creature an opponent controls. That player draws a card. You add {R}.
• Keyword · alluring eyesalluring eyes

What a Red Death, Shipwrecker deck needs

Plays as goad. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (each tap goads)
• a board to survive the goaded attacks elsewhere

The Red Death, Shipwrecker deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Refill your hand
• 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Red Death, Shipwrecker

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Red Death, Shipwrecker

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Red Death, Shipwrecker is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Red Death, Shipwrecker + Chromatic Orrery + Freed From The Real265 decks
• Red Death, Shipwrecker + Chromatic Orrery + Pemmin's Aura222 decks
• Red Death, Shipwrecker + Mycosynth Lattice + Freed From The Real94 decks
• Red Death, Shipwrecker + Mycosynth Lattice + Pemmin's Aura78 decks
• Red Death, Shipwrecker + Xyris, The Writhing Storm + Intruder Alarm46 decks
• Red Death, Shipwrecker + Prismite + Freed From The Real + Training Grounds26 decks

Build this deck in the Arcane Forge →

Arcane Foundry is free to join and every tool is included: the Arcane Forge deck builder, the ARCANE Analyzer that scores a deck by simulating games rather than counting staples, a card scanner, a collection vault, and live webcam Commander tables. Read the guide · Browse all commanders · Pricing