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Red Death, Shipwrecker

Legendary Creature — Crab Mutant

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.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{U}{R}
Color identity
RU
Rarity
rare
Set
Fallout
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#6216
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Red Death, Shipwrecker card art
Red Death, Shipwrecker hits the board as a five-color, flying, menace threat that forces opponents to sacrifice creatures and discard cards on attack — the pressure is immediate and repeatable. The cost is real: seven mana and a color identity that locks it out of anything but five-color builds, which means it lives or dies by enablers like Chromatic Orrery and commanders like Ian Malcolm, Chaotician who can turbocharge the chaos engine it feeds.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

55.7% of decks · synergy 0.54

Red Death, Shipwrecker is in over half of Ian Malcolm, Chaotician decks because the two cards are doing the same thing — forcing chaotic, asymmetric effects that punish opponents for existing — and Red Death's attack trigger stacks perfectly on top of Malcolm's cascade-style chaos payoffs.

02
The Rani

The Rani

49.8% of decks · synergy 0.48

The Rani wants to steal and manipulate opponents' resources, and Red Death, Shipwrecker's forced sacrifice and discard on attack feeds that gameplan by stripping the board and hands that The Rani can then exploit.

03
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

31.1% of decks · synergy 0.29

Firkraag, Cunning Instigator goads opponents' creatures into attacking, and Red Death, Shipwrecker punishes those same opponents when it attacks back — the two create a loop of forced combat that drains hands and boards simultaneously.

04
Marchesa, Dealer of Death

Marchesa, Dealer of Death

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.21

Marchesa, Dealer of Death rewards attacking into opponents and singling them out, and Red Death, Shipwrecker's per-opponent attack triggers align cleanly with her multiplayer punishment package.

05
Pramikon, Sky Rampart

Pramikon, Sky Rampart

13.7% of decks · synergy 0.13

Pramikon, Sky Rampart restricts attack directions, and slotting Red Death, Shipwrecker into that shell turns the one permitted attack lane into a discard-and-sacrifice gauntlet the designated target can't easily avoid.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Red Death, Shipwrecker belongs — the multiplayer table amplifies every attack trigger across three opponents instead of one, and five-color decks have the fixing infrastructure to cast it reliably. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal, but a seven-mana creature with no immediate board-winning effect doesn't compete in formats where games end on turn one or two. Oathbreaker is the only other format worth mentioning, and the same five-color constraint that limits commander options there makes Red Death, Shipwrecker a niche include at best.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Red Death, Shipwrecker is firmly bulk — the price reflects its narrow five-color restriction more than its power level. It's a safe pickup at this price for any chaos or five-color build, and there's no meaningful upside pressure likely to move it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.