Shirei Artifacts and Death Shenanigans

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Artifact Infinite Combo Mono-Black

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Creature (29)

• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bottle Gnomes
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Coretapper
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fume Spitter
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Marionette Master
• 1x Marsh Flitter
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Weaponcraft Enthusiast
• 1x Wild-Field Scarecrow
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Artifact (17)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Empowered Autogenerator
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lux Cannon
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Shield of Kaldra
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Surge Node
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Transmogrifying Wand

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Dark Privilege
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Open the Graves

Instant (5)

• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Murder
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Commander (1)

Land (33)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 22x Swamp
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Eliminate the Competition
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Victimize

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This deck essentially treats the graveyard like a bed and breakfast, with most of your creatures dying and coming right back at the end of each turn (including your opponents turns) and all of the creature dies or enter the battlefield triggers you could ask for. The artifact subtheme makes the deck feel different than the other well known way of playing Shirei, that being shadowborn apostles. The all star golden boy lieutenant of this deck is Coretapper and his ridiculous synergy with shirei. Once you get Coretapper + Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker , and any of your charge counter artifacts into play the deck becomes a ton of fun. There are also a variety of infinite combos in the deck, resulting in infinite turns Coretapper + Magistrate's Scepter + Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker or Contagion Engine + Magistrate's Scepter + Surge Node and any of the creatures that can create two tokens when they etb can go infinite with Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Alter with Sling-Gang Lieutenant resulting in an instant win and others netting you infinite mana / infinite tokens. The shield and enchantments like dark privilege are there to protect shirei because as long as he survives, you can recover from a boardwipe better than just about anybody. That is the crux of the matter though, if shirei can't be protected and isn't allowed to stick around, your gameplan does sort of come to a halt.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Coretapper + Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker Coretapper + Magistrate's Scepter + Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker Contagion Engine + Magistrate's Scepter + Surge Node
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	Goat 0/1 W, Goblin 1/1 R, Goblin Rogue 1/1 B, Human Cleric 1/1 WB, Morph 2/2 C, Ox 2/4 W, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH