The Malevolent Sink Eater

Commander / EDH Artifact Land Destruction Mono-Red Tokens Treasure

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Interaction / board control (18)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Brotherhood's End
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Guff Rewrites History
• 1x Hell to Pay
• 1x Incendiary Sabotage
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Pyre-Sledge Arsonist
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Seize the Spotlight
• 1x Spiteful Banditry
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Treasure Nabber
• 1x Wand of Wonder
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

Creation (9)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1x Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1x Descent into Avernus
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Generous Plunderer
• 1x Hit the Mother Lode
• 1x Reckless Endeavor
• 1x The Reaver Cleaver

Crescendo (8)

• 1x Destructive Force
• 1x Indomitable Creativity
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Spiteful Repossession
• 1x Summoning Station
• 1x Wildfire

Gas (16)

• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Bonehoard Dracosaur
• 1x Crimson Caravaneer
• 1x Dino DNA
• 1x Dragonstorm
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Experimental Frenzy
• 1x Inspired Tinkering
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Koth, Fire of Resistance
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x The Flux
• 1x The One Ring
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Fomori Vault
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Junktown
• 21x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Urza's Saga

Utility (3)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Scrapheap
• 1x Twinferno

Commander (1)

Artifacts (15)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nettlecyst
• 1x Sceptre of Eternal Glory
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Throne of Eldraine
• 1x Voltaic Key

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Potentially (9)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Epicenter
• 1x Glacial Crevasses
• 1x Matzalantli, the Great Door  ^Flip
• 1x Nahiri's Warcrafting
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Spark of Creativity
• 1x Task Mage Assembly
• 1x Wild Wasteland

To add (5)

• 1x Kozilek's Command
• 1x Null Elemental Blast
• 1x Powerbalance
• 1x Selective Obliteration
• 1x Talon Gates of Madara

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Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked. A mono-red legend from the low power and experimental block following Mirrodin. His specialty? Being able to eat ANY permanents in play. That's right; mono-red can interact with enchantments now, lads, Magic has truly lost its color identity. /s

Unironically, Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked can do some very powerful things in the right situations which no other commander can. This deck aims to create those situations and exploit them as much as possible. Summoning Station with a bunch of rocks in play? Turn 'em into Pinchers and get a strong creature while you're at it. Wildfire? Sac all your lands and creatures that would die anyway. Blasphemous Act + Repercussion? You take 13 damage. Spiteful Repossession? Slap my head and call me silly, Shimatsu does it again. When he isn't breaking parity, he watches from his snowy mountaintop as the cogs in the mono-red artifact machine turn. Untap abuse, treasures and topdeck manipulation.

fun combos n' scHET

basically some attempts to validate the decision of making shimatsu the commander (and other things found during that process)

• Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Wildfire > tap out and sac all lands/creatures that would die to Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked, then burn the board
• Destructive Force + Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked > tap out and sac all lands/creatures that would die to Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked, then burn the board
• Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Spiteful Repossession > late game powerhouse that easily generates 20+ tokens
• Mycosynth Lattice + Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Summoning Station > 1:1 conversion of board into 2/2 little men. combo will become 5000% more powerful once the cowards at WoTC create Splinter tokens. for now i will use pocket lint or live worms
• Summoning Station + Mycosynth Lattice + Brotherhood's End > heard ya like 2/2's
• Mycosynth Lattice + Dockside Extortionist > lots of treasures for big shimatsu. get em big enough and Chandra's Ignition can kill
• Mycosynth Lattice + Cavern-Hoard Dragon > lots of treasures
• Mycosynth Lattice + Generous Plunderer > large damage. huge even
• Mycosynth Lattice + Karn, the Great Creator > the classic. can help with a proper lock after Wildfire
• Mycosynth Lattice + Brotherhood's End + Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked > y'know the drill, sac everything that would die to make a big Shimatsu, then nuke everything
• Mycosynth Lattice + Nettlecyst, Karn, Scion of Urza or Urza's Saga for a big ole creature
• Nettlecyst, Karn, Scion of Urza or Urza's Saga + The Reaver Cleaver > incrementally larger man
• Dino DNA + Dockside Extortionist > true infinite i guess? makes infinite extortionists, treasures, etc... with Academy Manufactor out this just wins the game, make infinite treasures > draw until Chandra's Ignition > chandra's on a massive Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked
• a big Dockside Extortionist > Kuldotha Forgemaster > Clock of Omens can do stuff... might include Erratic Portal for another true infinite, with Matzalantli, the Great Door   or Academy Manufactor could sift through the deck, find Repercussion and Reverberate Shatterskull Smashing   to burn ppl out? or just make an infinitely large Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked and Chandra's Ignition lol
• Repercussion + Blasphemous Act > Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked can ensure u only take 13 damage
• Repercussion + Reckless Endeavor > Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked same as above
• Experimental Frenzy + Sensei's Divining Top > 1 generic draw a card, poggers!
• Sensei's Divining Top + Etali, Primal Storm > kinda works
• Sensei's Divining Top + Hit the Mother Lode > same as above, lets you choose between potentially a large spell and a few treasures or just 9 treasures
• Sensei's Divining Top + Spark of Creativity > really nice early game for getting an otherwise uncastable card off the top of the deck while also killing a creature

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I was browsing magic art last night, looking for illustrations that represented strength, determination, or a frenzy which naturally lead back to the Kamigawa block. A few artists later and I ended up at Pain Kami. What's not to love? The art features a screaming starfish fella surrounded by mouth spirits, and the flavor text is a quote from an akki. I have an appreciation for creatures lacking features like eyes & noses so I was immediately drawn to the little fellas. The one on the bottom of the artwork looks like he's a good bit calmer than his buddies. "Beeeeh... I dunno 'bout this, guys. we've been, like, yellin' at these guys for 10 minutes and my voice is starting to fade. can we give it a break? I don't think they're in on this and I need some vitamin water." Maybe he'd just float off. Are these spirits surrounded by blood or nerve endings...? I dunno, but living with exposed nerve endings would make me shout all the time too.

Anyways, I don't think they'd work well as either a rule 0 commander or a pauper one. Both would be rough... after a bit more searching though I remembered Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked, who also has little mouth fellas in their artwork! Their design interested me back when I started playing for their ability to directly sacrifice any type of permanent en-masse, but red had far less tools then than it does now. Anyways, the current state of magic makes me confident that a playable, maybe even "good" build of Shimatsu can be made, and that's what I'm going for here. Goldfishing has been pretty solid thus far, will see how it does in standard 4p.

General gameplan so far is getting 9-10 mana then floating it all before playing Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked > Wildfire or Destructive Force. Or just amassing treasures with any of red's dumb new options. Matzalantli, the Great Door   can get around the normally very relevant downside of sacrificing every land the deck has in play, and Spiteful Repossession (copied 1-2x, ideally) and Repercussion combos can do stuff too...

Date added	1 month
Last updated	10 hours
Key combos	Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Wildfire Destructive Force + Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Spiteful Repossession Mycosynth Lattice + Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Summoning Station Experimental Frenzy + Sensei's Divining Top
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.39
Tokens	2/2 N Creature Pincher, Clue, Construct 0/0 C, Dinosaur 3/1 R, Emblem Koth, Fire of Resistance, Food, Junk, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Treasure