Faded Plastic (Shorikai EDH)

Commander / EDH Artifact Bracket 3 Crew Vehicle WU (Azorius)

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Artifact (31)

• 1x Aerial Surveyor
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Colossal Plow
• 1x Cultivator's Caravan
• 1x Dusk Rose Reliquary
• 1x Imposter Mech
• 1x Lifecraft Engine
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mighty Servant of Leuk-o
• 1x Mobilizer Mech
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Parhelion II
• 1x Peacewalker Colossus
• 1x Prodigy's Prototype
• 1x Raiders' Karve
• 1x Salvation Engine
• 1x Scourglass
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Skyseer's Chariot
• 1x Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Surgehacker Mech
• 1x The Indomitable
• 1x The Mightstone and Weakstone  ^Meld
• 1x The Omenkeel  ^Flip
• 1x Thopter Fabricator
• 1x Waterlogged Hulk  ^Flip
• 1x Weatherlight

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Swift Reconfiguration
• 1x Unstoppable Plan

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Hall of Tagsin
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 8x Island
• 1x Mech Hangar
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 10x Plains
• 1x Razortide Bridge
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shire Terrace
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x The Mycosynth Gardens

Instant (10)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Loran's Escape
• 1x Urza's Command

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh

Commander (1)

Creature (10)

• 1x Filigree Angel
• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x Steelfin Whale
• 1x Urza, Lord Protector  ^Meld
• 1x Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
• 1x Vedalken Engineer
• 1x Wonder

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Argivian Restoration
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Hour of Reckoning
• 1x One Last Job
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Profound Journey
• 1x Repair and Recharge
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Tune Up

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• Major Themes/Archetype: Vehicles
• Subthemes: Artifacts and Artifact Creatures
• Planar Flavor: Kamigawa, Mirrodin, Esper, Dominaria
• Basic Land Art: Halo map vibes

This deck is a fairly straightforward upgrade of the Buckle Up precon from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. While not as high-concept as some of my decks, I've been very pleasantly surprised by this one. Vehicles are so much more than undercosted beaters!

Importantly, creatures with summoning sickness can still crew. This means we can activate Shorikai, create a pilot token, and immediately use it. And if you don't have quite enough pilot power to crew your big top-end vehicle—say you have one pilot token, a Raiders' Karve, and Parhelion II—you can chain the smaller crewed vehicle into the larger one. It's not hard to imagine such a scenario when Shorikai can come down and pop out a pilot in the same turn, perhaps also drawing you into a cheap vehicle which can help crew something immediately.

That said, Shorikai's pilot tokens crew in increments of 3, which just so happens to be the threshold for a lot of impactful vehicles like Weatherlight and Imposter Mech. It only takes two dinky 1/1 pilot tokens to crew heavy hitters like Colossal Plow.

Meanwhile, Shorikai's draw 2, discard 1 provides some excellent card selection, while setting up our graveyard for artifact reanimator cards like Tune Up.

And finally, though it can feel like a drawback that vehicles require a steady supply of pilots for them to function as creatures, the fact that vehicles crew only for the turn means they dodge a lot of removal. Selective board wipes like Hour of Reckoning pass over your pilots, setting you up to crew and swing out on a more favorable field. Crackback who?

The result is a very flexible, hard-hitting aggro deck that can evade and bounce back from removal, keep the pressure on, and draw a silly amount of cards. Highly recommend!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 week
Exclude colors	BRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh, Pilot 1/1 C, Powerstone, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	precon, EDH current decks