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Shadow the Hedgehog

Legendary Creature — Hedgehog Mercenary

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.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{B}{B}{R}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$4.88
EDHREC rank
#6468
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Shadow the Hedgehog card art
Shadow the Hedgehog enters with a counter for each opponent and converts those counters into Treasure whenever it attacks — that's three Treasures a turn in a four-player pod before a single synergy piece touches the board. The cost is the creature slot and the expectation of haste enablers, but Ognis, the Dragon's Lash does that work for free, and Workhorse shows just how explosive counter-to-mana conversion gets in the right shell.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

32.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash hands Shadow the Hedgehog free haste, meaning it attacks the turn it enters and immediately cashes its counters into Treasures — the two cards function as a self-contained engine that scales with headcount.

02
Vihaan, Goldwaker

Vihaan, Goldwaker

17.9% of decks · synergy 0.17

Vihaan, Goldwaker animates Treasures into attacking creatures, so the Treasures Shadow the Hedgehog generates each combat become additional attackers that generate even more resources — the loop compounds fast.

03
Dr. Eggman

Dr. Eggman

16.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Dr. Eggman wants artifacts entering the battlefield at volume, and Shadow the Hedgehog flooding the board with Treasures every attack step feeds that count reliably without requiring additional setup.

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 Shadow the Hedgehog actually lives — the card is designed around multiplayer headcount, and three or four opponents means it enters with three or four counters and threatens to convert them all on the first attack. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically correct but practically irrelevant; no powered or singleton format is reaching for a five-mana creature whose payoff is measured in Treasures over multiple turns. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format worth a footnote, since planeswalker-centric shells can pair it with aggressive signatures and get real mileage from the Treasure output.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.88 cheap tier

At $4.88, Shadow the Hedgehog sits at the high end of the cheap tier but is still an easy include for any deck that wants what it does. It's a unique card tied to a licensed IP with a narrow but dedicated audience, so the price is unlikely to crater — but buy it for the effect, not as a hold.

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