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My own, real life Shirei deck that focuses on more vanilla drain effects with card draw, treasure ramp, and direct damage from minions to constantly accelerate board state. Shirei enables a gross number of nontoken creature etbs and deaths, but with the restriction of being small creatures. I have scoured the archives to find the most potent cards that fit this theme, some of which feel like truly eldritch knowledge to even be aware of. Some cards make so many tokens that they're too much not to include, and some funny stacks pieces fit in very well to punish others that are doing too well. The most potent card is card:Dark Privelege for being both protection and a sac outlet.

It's built to maximize power with minimal salt, so there is no forced discard despite being so supported by Shirei. As Shirei is critical to the engine, there are several options for protection, which double to have this deck win most situations involving a (non-exile) board wipe. Once online, you will be sacrificing every nontoken creature to bring back at each end step. More opponents means more end steps, so the aim is to drain most people evenly. With all the drain effects, this deck is strongest with multiple people at low health, so casting Repay in Kind with anyone at low health can often net a win. The deck is weak to graveyard removal and removal of Shirei. Shirei leaving the battlefield before the end step will result in everything staying in the graveyard, hence the protection.

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