Shorikai by user8118108

Format: Commander

Commander: Shorikai, Genesis Engine

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Shorikai is a single-faced Azorius artifact Vehicle deck built around the commander's instant-speed draw-and-discard ability to generate Pilot tokens and find Vehicles, mana rocks, and finishers. The core plan is to crew big Vehicles with Pilots, then convert the artifact-heavy board into attackers with Cyberdrive Awakener or Parhelion II. A secondary package of tutors and recursion makes Urza, Lord High Artificer a hidden commander, while Darksteel Forge, Padeem, and Rebbec protect the board. The deck has no deterministic fast combo; its cost-reducer/copy lines are value chains that still need a combat outlet. Speed is midrange: a normal goldfish wins around turns 8-9 by making a wide animated-artifact attack and following up with a second swing.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anchor to Reality
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armed and Armored
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cultivator's Caravan
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fabrication Foundry
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Hall of Storm Giants
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kotori, Pilot Prodigy
  • 1 Mech Hangar
  • 1 Mechtitan Core
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mobilizer Mech
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Parhelion II
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Prodigy's Prototype
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Rebbec, Architect of Ascension
  • 1 Reef Roads
  • 1 Remand
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Salvation Engine
  • 1 Scourglass
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steelswarm Operator
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Surgehacker Mech
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • 1 Thran Turbine
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm