Arcane Foundry › Commanders › Shadow the Hedgehog

Shadow the Hedgehog

Legendary Creature — Hedgehog Mercenary · {B}{B}{R}{R} · Black/Red commander

Haste Whenever Shadow the Hedgehog or another creature you control with flash or haste dies, draw a card. Chaos Control — Each spell you cast has split second if mana from an artifact was spent to cast it. (As long as it's on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Build a Shadow the Hedgehog deck →

What Shadow the Hedgehog actually does

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

• Triggered ability · deathWhenever Shadow the Hedgehog or another creature you control with flash or haste dies, draw a card.
• Keyword · chaos controlchaos control
• Keyword · hastehaste

What a Shadow the Hedgehog deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

• 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Shadow the Hedgehog

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.

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