Shirek, Swamp Caretaker (1/26/22)

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black

EsRob

Creature (32)

• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Elvish Doomsayer
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Kitesail Freebooter
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Shambling Ghast
• 1x Skyscanner
• 1x Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Walking Atlas
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Artifact (13)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel

Land (34)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 28x Swamp
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Instant (6)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Village Rites

Commander (1)

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Bankrupt in Blood
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Introduction to Annihilation
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Tribute
• 1x Ritual of the Machine
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Victimize

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Dark Privilege
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dictate of Erebos

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Normal staxy value deck, the goal is to get sherei's value engine up as fast as possible and outpace everyone else by destroying their hands and boards.

Potential cuts:

1) Blood artist -> Meathook Massacre (if it ever goes down): Dealing 1 to each opponent can be pretty nice and can let me close out games bc I have no (fast) wincon.

2) something -> Gate to Phyrexia: I swear to go Graffdigger's Cage and Weathered Runestone are the fucking bane of my existence. There's a reason I'm running Scour from Existence, my local meta thinks they're too fucking funny.

3) Swamp -> Cabal Stronghold, this is more of an aquire board thing, but still.

Problems With This Deck

1) I'm not running nearly enough recursion so once something is gone, it's pretty much gone for good.

2) Not enough removal/interaction for creatures. I run some stuff but very few at instant speed.

3) Keeping Sherei alive is hard. I try but I think there's more I could be doing.

Things I might do in the future I'll probably lean more into destroying my opponents things and forcing them to discard. That way I can run Tergrid, God of Fright   and Gisa, Glorious Resurrector in the 99.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.52
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Goat 0/1 W, Goblin 1/1 R, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders	Finished Decks
Based on	Shirek, Swamp Caretaker EsRob EDH