Shorikai, Genesis Engine
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- Commander
- Shorikai, Genesis Engine
- Cards
- 100
- Current value
- $429.36
- Grade
- A+
How it grades
Fundamentals 99/100. Plays like Artifacts and Control.
This reads as Artifacts · Control, built around Shorikai, Genesis Engine. An artifact engine deck: cost reducers and cheap trinkets snowball into board states and card advantage that scale with the artifact count itself. The pieces are individually weak but the whole is far more than the sum, and a single well-timed Vandalblast is the scariest card in the room. Shorikai, Genesis Engine sits on the cEDH tier list, so the ceiling here is tournament-grade, and experienced tables will treat it that way. The fundamentals check out across the board. From here it's meta calls and personal tech.
- A+Mana reliability
- A+Land count
- A+Mana curve
- A+Ramp
- A+Card draw
- A+Interaction
- A+Commander synergy
- A+Win conditions
- A+Card quality
- A+Legality & size
Nothing falls short. Strong on mana reliability, land count, mana curve, ramp, card draw, interaction, commander synergy, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
84 cards graded: A 3, A- 21, B+ 35, B 24, B- 1. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Thought Monitor6U$0.36
In place of Brilliant Restoration: its W cost is heavy for this mana base; expect it several turns late (57/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (38 producers). Fuels your go-wide payoffs (10 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Scrap Trawler3$3.13
In place of Armed and Armored: weakest slot in the deck (60/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (9 in deck). Pays off the commanders' artifact plan. EDHREC Artifacts staple.
Kappa Cannoneer5U$0.37
In place of Dance of the Manse: weakest slot in the deck (61/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (38 producers). Fuels your artifact payoffs (9 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Steel Overseer2$0.38
In place of Dramatic Reversal: weakest slot in the deck (63/100)
Feeds the commanders' go-wide payoff. Fuels your go-wide payoffs (10 in deck). Fuels your artifact payoffs (9 in deck).
Myr Retriever2$3.08
In place of Fabricate: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Fuels your go-wide payoffs (10 in deck). Fuels your artifact payoffs (9 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
The Reality Chip1U$4.22
In place of Kotori, Pilot Prodigy: weakest slot in the deck (65/100)
Fuels your go-wide payoffs (10 in deck). Fuels your artifact payoffs (9 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Adeline, Resplendent Cathar1WW$2.84
In place of Vedalken Engineer: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Pays off your go-wide engine (20 producers). Fuels your token payoffs (4 in deck). Pays off the commanders' go-wide plan.
Displacer Kitten3U$33.11
In place of Smothering Tithe: expensive for ramp: the help arrives late (66/100)
Pays off your instant-and-sorcery engine (18 producers). Pays off your enters-the-battlefield engine (8 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Cathars' Crusade3WW$9.48
In place of Surgehacker Mech: weakest slot in the deck (68/100)
Pays off your token engine (7 producers). Pays off the commanders' token plan. Pays off your go-wide engine (20 producers).
Banner of Kinship5$7.93
In place of Voltaic Key: weakest slot in the deck (68/100)
Pays off your token engine (7 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (20 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
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Decklist
Commander 1
Creatures 18
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- A-
- B+
- A-
- B+
- A-
- A
- B+
- B+
- B
- A-
- A-
- A
- B+
- B+
- B+
- B+
- B
Planeswalkers 1
- B+
Instants 12
- A-
- B
- A
- B+
- B+
- B+
- B
- B+
- B+
- A-
- B+
- A-
Sorceries 6
- B-
- B
- B
- B+
- A-
- A-
Artifacts 23
- B+
- A-
- B+
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- A-
- B+
- A-
- B+
- B+
- A-
- B+
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- B+
- A-
- A-
- A-
- A-
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- B+
- A-
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Enchantments 5
- A-
- B+
- B
- B+
- A-
Lands 34
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B×9
- B
- B×8
- B+
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B+
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