Shirei, Caretaker of Pain

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Mono-Black Sacrifice Stax

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Stax&Control (16)

• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Elvish Doomsayer
• 1x Mindlash Sliver
• 1x Nezumi Informant
• 1x Noxious Toad
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Virus Beetle
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker

Aristocrats (9)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Jar of Eyeballs
• 1x Lifeline
• 1x Lightning Coils
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Protection (5)

• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Mithril Coat
• 1x Soul Channeling
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Draw (15)

• 1x Clattering Augur
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Disciple of Perdition
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Novice Occultist
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Skyscanner
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x War Room

SacOutlet (10)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Dark Privilege
• 1x High Market
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Tutor (4)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Commander (1)

Mana (34)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Skullport Merchant
• 1x Sol Ring
• 25x Swamp

Recursion (6)

• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wake the Dead

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The deck is very simple. The first and main goal is to get shirei out and keep shirei out. Without shirei (or their backup - Lifeline), the deck does not work.

After that the deck is focused on 3 main aspects. Stax, Draw, and Aristocrats.

Stax. The main Stax effects that help this deck work are the 8 creatures that make each opponent discard on either ETB or death. ETB is great because with shirei out, you can two triggers off the first turn they come out, but death triggers can happen at instant speed with a sac outlet. Its hard to build or answer a board if you constantly have no hand.

some other staxy effects in the deck include Contamination, Smokestack, Thoughtpicker Witch, Abyssal Gatekeeper, Big Game Hunter, and Torment of Hailfire (also a game closer)).

Draw there is so much draw potential in the deck its almost funny. Skyscanner, Novice Occultist, Mindless Automaton, Clattering Augur, Tinybones, Trinket Thief, Morbid Opportunist, Disciple of Perdition, and Dusk Legion Zealot all draw me a card on EACH players turn, while Dark Prophecy, Midnight Reaper, Krav, the Unredeemed, and Grim Haruspex, will all draw me 4+ cards on EACH players turn. with the amount of draw that actually happens each game i regularly end up with 25+ card hands.

Aristocrats With many of the draw engines of the deck costing me life, the additions of Bastion of Remembrance, Zulaport Cutthroat, Ayara, First of Locthwain, and Syr Konrad, the Grim, do a massive part in stabilising my life total and keeping me alive, while also serving the dual purpose of draining my opponents. Pawn of Ulamog, Desecrated Tomb, Lightning Coils, and Jar of Eyeballs serve to augment the fact i have so many creatures dying by making more creatures or letting me repeatedly tutor my deck.

The rest of the deck.

Sac outlets make the deck go round. 10 total different sac outlets/self sacrificing creatures means that i will be hard pressed to NOT have a way to brutally slaughter my own creatures, and thats not counting instants and sorceries.

6 ways to recur my creatures (2 of which are creatures that shirei can recur as well) means that even if something sticks to the graveyard, it wont stick long.

6 different ways to keep the commander from dying. 3 regenerate auras, 2 hexproof equipments, and a partridge in a pear tree (Mithril Coat)

The rest of the deck includes ways to get more mana, faster, tutor cards from my library, and deal with targeted threats.

This is my current paper deck and i am planning on updating it with a Dark Ritual and a Culling the Weak, as well as a Mana Crypt and a Mana Vault as i can afford them.

Date added	9 months
Last updated	9 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.63
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elemental 3/1 R, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure