Hedge Shredder
Artifact — Vehicle
Whenever this Vehicle attacks, you may mill two cards.
Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put them onto the battlefield tapped.
Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #1334
Hedge Shredder puts a body on board that mills opponents and fuels your own graveyard simultaneously, and Scouting Trek makes it immediately absurd by stacking your library with basics for repeated landfall triggers. In Aatchik, Emerald Radian decks it's not a support piece — it's a core engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aatchik, Emerald Radian
Aatchik, Emerald Radian cares about lands entering from everywhere, and Hedge Shredder mills basics straight to the battlefield, converting each attack into free land drops that trigger Aatchik's ability repeatedly.
The Mycotyrant
The Mycotyrant wants a steady stream of creatures dying and entering, and Hedge Shredder's mill feeds the graveyard count that scales Mycotyrant's fungus token production turn over turn.
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale rewards you for having cards in both graveyards, and Hedge Shredder mills opponents to help hit that threshold while simultaneously building your own graveyard resources.
The Necrobloom
The Necrobloom turns self-mill and land-from-graveyard effects into zombie triggers, and Hedge Shredder's combat mill feeds exactly the basic-land pipeline Necrobloom wants to exploit.
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
Winter, Cynical Opportunist profits whenever opponents lose cards from the top of their libraries, making Hedge Shredder's attack trigger a recurring source of that effect stapled to a relevant creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Hedge Shredder actually does something — three opponents means three mills per attack, and landfall or graveyard commanders turn that into a meaningful resource engine rather than incidental damage. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's legal but unplayed; milling one card per combat is far too slow when the gamestate is decided in four to six turns. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a four-mana creature with no immediate board impact. Standard legality opens the door, but Hedge Shredder needs the redundancy and longer game of multiplayer Commander to justify the mana investment.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Scouting TrekIcetill ExplorerHedge Shredder
Near-infinite landfall triggers; Put all basic lands from your library onto the battlefield tapped
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Hedge ShredderMortuaryDryad ArborAltar of Dementia
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.