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Shadow the Hedgehog
Legendary Creature — Hedgehog Mercenary · {B}{B}{R}{R} · Black/Red commander
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 · hastehaste
- Keyword · chaos controlchaos control
- AbilityChaos Control — Each spell you cast has split second if mana from an artifact was spent to cast it.
What a Shadow the Hedgehog deck needs
Plays as flash matters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures with flash or haste (each one dying draws)
- artifact mana (spells paid with it have split second)
The Shadow the Hedgehog deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 32× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 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 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.
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Bitterbloom Bearer2 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Opposition Agent3 mana
- Thieves' Guild Enforcer1 mana
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter3 mana
- Shimmer Myr3 mana
- Blacklance Paragon2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Shadow the Hedgehog
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Shadow the Hedgehog is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Shadow the Hedgehog + Workhorse + Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Pack Rat3 decks
- Shadow the Hedgehog + The Locust God + Ashnod's Altar2 decks
- Shadow the Hedgehog + The Locust God + Phyrexian Altar2 decks
- Shadow the Hedgehog + The Locust God + Viscera Seer
- Shadow the Hedgehog + The Locust God + Carrion Feeder
- Shadow the Hedgehog + The Locust God + Bloodflow Connoisseur
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