Shortykai by user9180065

Format: Commander

Commander: Shorikai, Genesis Engine

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius control and combo build commanded by Shorikai, Genesis Engine. Shorikai serves as a resilient, noncreature card-advantage engine in the command zone, generating continuous card draw and Pilot tokens while remaining immune to sorcery-speed creature removal and creature board wipes. The strategy leans on potent asymmetric stax pieces such as Cursed Totem, Drannith Magistrate, and Teferi, Time Raveler to slow opposing development, while utilizing untap engines like Unwinding Clock and Voltaic Key to multiply Shorikai's output. The deck secures victory through compact artifact-driven loops, most notably Displacer Kitten with Teferi, Time Raveler and Sol Ring, or Hullbreaker Horror bouncing positive mana rocks. These loops draw the entire library and win on the spot with Laboratory Maniac. A dense suite of cheap countermagic and targeted removal ensures firm control over the table from the early game to the combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Frozen Aether
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Floodplain
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Honest Work
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Stunt Double
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Millennium Calendar
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Weathered Runestone
  • 1 Windswept Heath