Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Legendary Creature — Spirit

Whenever a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step if Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker is still on the battlefield.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

Kaktus021 on Shirei's Delayed Trigger and Being …

2 months ago

Set-up: It's my opponent's turn. I control a Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker and remove two counters from my Mindless Automaton to draw a card and it dies from having zero toughness, triggering Shirie's ability. Later in the turn my opponent plays Ixidron turning Shirie face down.

Question: Does the Automaton still return to play when Shirie's delayed ability triggers at the end of turn since Shirie is still in play even though it's now a face down creature with no abilities or name, or does the ability fail to see Shirei because it's now face down?

-Sant- on Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker loses abilities …

5 months ago

• Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker is in the battlefield and a 1/1 creature dies during the Combat Phase on my turn, both creatures are controlled by the same opponent.

• In my Post-Combat Main Phase I cast Reprobation on Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, it loses all abilities.

Would the 1/1 creature still return to the battlefield at the end of the turn?

builderboy7 on Shirei Shizo's Caretaker Return creatures …

6 months ago

Player A control's Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, Mindless Automaton, and a Supernatural Stamina in hand. Player A activates Mindless Automaton's ability to draw a card in Player B's second main phase. When Player B regains priority, they cast Murder targeting Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker and Player A responds by casting Supernatural Stamina targeting Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker. After the stack resolves with Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker getting destroyed and re-entering the battlefield from the graveyard, would Mindless Automaton still be brought back at the beginning of the end step?

TheVectornaut on Tergrid - making cuts

6 months ago

You say you're going for more sacrifice than discard but the current list feels very much the opposite to me. If you are serious about wanting to make the deck more casual friendly, cutting all of the cards that exclusively care about discard does seem like the easy way to get down to 100. Having cards that do both like Rankle's Prank will probably be more palatable, even if the outcome is actually even more lopsided. As an aside in the event you do keep some discard spells, you'll be better off paying a little extra for the multiplayer focused options like Delirium Skeins vs. something targeted like Duress. Obviously, if you want to do a lot of 1v1, that evaluation changes. I like the idea of focusing on a sacrifice shell with all of Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Butcher of Malakir to ding opponents while you're sac looping your own creatures with various reanimator tools. Cards like Hell's Caretaker or Whisper, Blood Liturgist are favorites of mine since you can easily convert your chumps into discarded bombs or re-trigger ETB and death triggers. You have a ton of cheap Fleshbag Marauder-type cards and that's the real reason I'd recommend this angle. If you stick with at least some of the discard package, you can run plenty of Burglar Rat and Virus Beetle 1/1s to take advantage of Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker which is also conveniently good with Valgavoth's Faithful and other potential synergy pieces like Viscera Seer, Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat.

I'll also list some other cards I'd consider cutting, regardless of the focus on discard or sacrifice. Crypt Ghast feels excessive here since by the time you can play it and untap on the following turn, there's currently only two cards that you wouldn't be able to cast anyway. Since I'm also recommending the cut of All is Dust anyway for being too symmetrical of a wipe for its high cost, I don't know that you'll need all that mana very often. The obvious counterpoint here are the x spells, but I'd urge caution on keeping too many of those too. Unless you're ending the game with a final enormous Torment of Hailfire, these types of effects can fall squarely under the "feels bad" category, or at least that's my experience. If you do want to keep them as wincons, you probably want even more cards like Ghast to improve consistency in reaching that goal. For somewhat similar reasons, I'd also consider cutting Dark Ritual and Culling the Weak. Turbo-ing out your oppressive commander is exactly the kind of play pattern that earned the recent commander bans their new status. If the other players at the table feel like they have time to prepare potential answers to Tergrid, I think people will be much happier to play with you. And if you feel you need more mana and a way to sac guys you want in the yard, Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar are always an option. In terms of draw, I like engines that play off your deck's existing themes like Waste Not, Geth's Grimoire, Grim Haruspex, Harvester of Souls, etc. as opposed to once a turn effects like Dark Confidant or Phyrexian Arena. They may not always be more efficient but they're certainly more interesting. Necrodominance is an option I'd be careful with though since it has some anti-synergy with self-reanimator strategies. I like the idea of Deathgreeter to recoup some of the life loss from symmetrical pox effects and to benefit from mass sacrifice. I just think some of the previously mentioned options at two mana do the job better. Similarly, I feel that Osseous Sticktwister will accomplish less than some similar cards in the deck since your opponents are free to choose the life loss in a format that offers them plenty of life to spare. If you were going for a more explicit life drain strategy, I think the card could pair nicely with other 8rack staples. Unstoppable Slasher is another card that is only good if you're focused on dropping life totals quickly, and with no obvious ways to guarantee the damage gets through, I don't see this guy as being too impactful. The final card I'll mention is Mithril Coat. It makes sense on paper to protect your commander when you know it's going to get targeted. However, Tergrid is so feared at many tables that she's likely to get targeted and removed before you even have the spare mana to equip her. For this reason, I'd prioritize cheaper protection like Boots/Greaves. You could even try one of the many instants and auras that offer a one-time reanimation effect since those will also protect against your own sacrifice effects where equipment will not.

awesomedude20 on Birdemic

7 months ago

EchoSpice Huh, not a bad idea, yeah, my only concern with Black Market is it tends to be an enormous removal magnet, I couldn't even run it in my Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker deck haha

Will definitely consider it though, thanks!

Goldberserkerdragon on Looting for Gold and Riches

8 months ago

Hybrow Yes, plague is definitely my next pickup for Ayara, very good :). Thank you for the compliment! In terms of your Ayara, it seems like you are aiming for reanimator--not sure if Ayara is the best for that. I would recommend Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, Imotekh the Stormlord, or even orzhov Lurrus of the Dream-Den if you want to splash some white. Those are just some ideas. I have a dimir reanimaor deck you might could piull some ideas from as well. deck-large:eldrazi-from-beneath I find looting is a perfect mechanic for reanimator.

GodzSoldier on Ayara or Liliana, heretoc healer

2 years ago

If you want a budget mono black deck, that's also busted as heck. There IS NO BETTER COMMANDER, than Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker. Hands down.

ImNora on Scampire + Shirei???

2 years ago

So if I sacrifice my creatures (except Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker) on a Phyrexian Altar while I have Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker on the battlefield and all my creatures, including Scampire come back to life at the next end step, Scampire's ETB triggers but there's no creatures in my graveyard now. Can I sacrifice some of the creatures that were brought back to life on my Phyrexian Altar before Scampire's "put a sticker on a creature in your graveyard" effect goes off so I'll now have a creature in my graveyard for it to target?

TLDR:

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker on battlefield

Sacrifice other creatures including Scampire on Phyrexian Altar

Creatures re-enter the battlefield

Before Scampire's ability resolves, sacrifice other creatures on the Phyrexian Altar

Have Scampire's ability target newly sacrificed creature in my graveyard to put a sticker on it

Is that possible?