Shirei Aristocrats Hate Stax

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

BuildingDankJankEDH

Creature (33)

• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Death Cultist
• 1x Demon of Death's Gate
• 1x Disciple of Phenax
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Kalastria Healer
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana's Shade
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Qarsi Sadist
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Skyscanner
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Tattered Mummy
• 1x Thorn of the Black Rose
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Virtus the Veiled
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x High Market
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 19x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lightning Coils
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Victimize

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Creature (9)

• 1x Bloodcrazed Paladin
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Extractor Demon
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Infectious Host
• 1x Marsh Flitter
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Diabolic Servitude

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Cry of Contrition
• 1x Reprocess

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lifeline
• 1x Static Orb

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Shirei Aritocrats Hate Stax

As I've been working with Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker I have noticed that this is not going to be an easy deck to accomplish everything you need to with a standard EDH deck. If it could be best described it would realistically be a mono-black control deck. The main goal is to control the board state with our opponents to sacrifice creatures and bring ours back every turn. In this deck everything is a chump blocker even without a sacrifice outlet online it will help us to let our creatures be killed triggering a multitude of ETB/LTB triggers. The best part is, we will be able to trigger the effects effectively on every turn and continuously make our opponents destroy their own things.

We have plenty of Tutors for our key cards: Demonic Tutor , Razaketh, the Foulblooded , Diabolic Intent and Expedition Map for our Cabal Coffers .

Since their are not a lot of options for enchantment removal I added in Oblivion Stone and Nevinyrral's Disk to clear everything if we are not able to sacrifice Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker before he is enchanted.

The Sac Outlets

We will need to be continuously killing our creatures in order to trigger all of the ETB/LTB effects that we need to control our board. Of course they are all chump blockers and later on in the game our opponents will have to block and kill them due to low life totals. So the goal is to block or attack with them and at the end of our opponents' second main phase sacrifice anything that is still alive. There are many sacrifice outlets that are a mix of lands, sorceries, creatures and artifacts.

- Hell's Caretaker - Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature from the graveyard to the battlefield.

- Krav, the Unredeemed - Sacrifice X creatures, Draw X cards, Gain X life and put X +1/+1 counters on Krav.

- Razaketh, the Foulblooded - Pay 2 Life: Sacrifice a creature and tutor for a card

- Smothering Abomination - Sacrifice a creature, Draw a card

- Soldevi Adnate - Sacrifice a creature, add Black mana equal to it's CMC

- Viscera Seer - Sacrifice a creature, Scry 1

- Ashnod's Altar - Sacrifice a creature, Add 2 Colorless mana

- Phyrexian Altar - Sacrifice a creature, Add 1 mana of any color

- High Market - Sacrifice a creature, Gain 1 life

- Phyrexian Tower - Sacrifice a creature, Add 2 Black mana

- Attrition - Sacrifice a creature, Destroy target non black creature

All Of The Triggers!

Opponents Sacrifice a Creature Abyssal Gatekeeper , Butcher of Malakir , Dictate of Erebos , Grave Pact

Opponents Lose Life/You Gain Life Blood Artist , Death Cultist , Deathgreeter , Kalastria Healer , Massacre Wurm , Qarsi Sadist , Tattered Mummy , Zulaport Cutthroat

Return Cards From Graveyard Cadaver Imp , Hell's Caretaker , Myr Retriever

Opponent Hand Manipulation Disciple of Phenax

Card Draw Dusk Legion Zealot , Grim Haruspex , Mindless Automaton , Skyscanner , Smothering Abomination , Thorn of the Black Rose

Token Generation/Sac Fodder Noosegraf Mob , Open the Graves , Desecrated Tomb , Lightning Coils

Land Search Liliana's Shade

Multi Effect Krav, the Unredeemed

Board Control Meekstone , Grave Betrayal , Attrition , Bone Shredder , Silent Arbiter , Dictate of Erebos , Grave Pact and Smokestack

The Win Conditions!

• Pitiless Plunderer + Revel in Riches - Pitiless Plunderer can be on the board at anytime and no one will really care about it, with the low cost of your creatures if you get a few Treasure Tokens they won't think twice. Before your end step, drop Revel in Riches , wait until the end step of the opponent right before you and sacrifice enough creatures to create your 10 Treasure Tokens and win the game!

• Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguinate are always huge threats in any black deck. Here we have Cabal Coffers , Cabal Stronghold , Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , Ashnod's Altar , Black Market , Phyrexian Altar and Soldevi Adnate (If you have a Demon out) to make tons of mana to drop into Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguinate and either kill all of your opponents or get them to a point where they have no choice but to concede!

• Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond Get this very easy combo onto the field and use one of the multitudes of sacrifice outlets to gain 1 life or make an opponent lose 1 life and you win the game!

• The last win condition is using our board state to our advantage. At the end of the day we should have plenty of creatures and our opponents should have none! This is where our big boys come in. Razaketh, the Foulblooded , Demon of Death's Gate , Ob Nixilis, Unshackled and even Virtus the Veiled will do lots of damage very quickly with no blockers on the board. We will also have plenty of token generation with Open the Graves , Desecrated Tomb , Noosegraf Mob and Lightning Coils to possibly overrun our enemies even if they have creatures on board!

This deck will be a continuous work in progress as I play it more. The cards in maybe board could be changed in or out depending on what works best in the deck. All of them have different effects and could be switched out if we want more damage or life gain.

Please share your ideas and let me know if there are any "key" cards that I have missed on this build!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond Pitiless Plunderer + Revel in Riches
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.46
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Morph 2/2 C, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B