Dark Privilege is an all-star in Shirei decks. The art also happens to be awesome!

You know what, sure. I cut Death Cloud for Dark Privilege.

We'll see how that goes. Death Cloud is one of my favorite cards but yolo.

Oh no, I love Deathcloud too! Maybe cut Scrap Trawler since it doesn't come back or Hedron Crawler since you already have Manakin.

Scrap Trawler ... does a lot, especially when you have an artifact creature and shirei on the field. Though, with the lack of a "may", it's a bit risky, allowing yourself to be shot in the foot if you mess up somehow or if they remove all of your obvious targets from your graveyard.

Idk, neither is particularly important. Don't really want to cut mana in any way -- this is about as little as I feel you can get away with and not end up screwed.

I love this! I rarely see a build so similar to mine! Hell yeah! I love playing shirei

I like to use Dust Bowl to sac an activated Blinkmoth Nexus or Inkmoth Nexus to blow up a land and get my nexus back

4 mana for a land is a bad deal in this deck, unfortunately :(

With Shirei, Kormus Bell , and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth you can bring back strip mine, wasteland, and ghost quarter every turn and wipe everyone's mana out pretty fast.

If Kormus Bell survives, and if shirei is protected, for sure.

Without incredible setup, its a tempting foot gun. Would definitely run it in a more casual / budget deck.

A full "Spirit of the inanimate" style build with a lot of "turn X into creature with power = CMC" is a fun way to shirei, but alas, this deck is not for fun (or, only for the player to have fun).