You need both the peanut butter and the jelly together for it to work
The reason for this is mainly that since the printing of Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Dragons Rage Channeler and Murktide Regent the tempo archetype reinvented itself in being primarily blue-red and making Deaths Shadow not a necessary creature for tempo shells anymore
Its occasionally found in Modern sideboards, but Standard is where its at for this card, and its got two years to be good
(Warning: this list is exhaustive in the hopes that it will inspire one of you to do something grand with Scales and but may also just result in you losing your FNM games while you durdle around.): The Green Devotion Players Working with the pre-existing Green Devotion shell may mean messing with a good thing unnecessarily but its certainly worth a look to see whether Hardened Scales can rate a slot in a deck thats already proven itself Tier 1, perhaps with some previously ignored cousins: Genesis Hydra : I like getting a slightly better rate on this guy when he was already playable
Can Vigilance Creatures Attack Twice
Two of the most popular Commanders from Tales of Middle-earth are Tom Bombadil and Sauron, the Dark Lord
