Shorikai Genesis Engine by user8118108

Format: Commander

Commander: Shorikai, Genesis Engine

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius artifact control strategy commanded by Shorikai, Genesis Engine. The game plan focuses on establishing early mana rocks to cast Shorikai on Turn 3, turning the commander into a repeatable card draw and Pilot token factory by Turn 4. As an uncrewed Vehicle, Shorikai naturally evades sorcery-speed creature board wipes, allowing the pilot to safely deploy asymmetric sweepers like Organic Extinction and Supreme Verdict. Meanwhile, stax elements like Ethersworn Canonist, Grafdigger's Cage, and Karn, the Great Creator throttle opposing development. The deck leverages heavy artifact tutoring through Fabricate, Whir of Invention, and Anchor to Reality to assemble high-impact synergies such as Unwinding Clock and Urza, Lord High Artificer. Once the board is saturated with tokens and utility artifacts, the deck closes the game on Turn 6 to 8 by animating its entire artifact suite with Cyberdrive Awakener or crashing in with Parhelion II and Angel tokens.

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 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Mana Tithe
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Mech Hangar
  • 1 Mechtitan Core
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Parhelion II
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Remand
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • 1 Thran Turbine
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Treasure Mage
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Venser, the Sojourner
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm