The Malevolent Sink Eater

Commander / EDH Artifact Land Destruction Mono-Red Tokens Treasure

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Artifact (21)

• 1x Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Cursed Recording
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Might
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Grim MonolithGC
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sonic Screwdriver
• 1x Summoning Station
• 1x The One RingGC
• 1x Throne of Eldraine
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Land (32)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 24x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (20)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Apex of Power
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Destructive Force
• 1x GambleGC
• 1x Hit the Mother Lode
• 1x Inspired Tinkering
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Jeska's WillGC
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Pirate's Pillage
• 1x Reckless Endeavor
• 1x Reckless Impulse
• 1x Seize the Spotlight
• 1x Spiteful Repossession
• 1x Thieves' Auction
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wildfire

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Alchemist's Talent
• 1x Experimental Frenzy
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Spiteful Banditry
• 1x The Flux
• 1x There and Back Again

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Koth, Fire of Resistance

Commander (1)

Creature (11)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Crimson Caravaneer
• 1x Generous Plunderer
• 1x Kozilek, the Broken Reality
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Treasure Nabber

Instant (7)

• 1x Big Score
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Fork
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Unexpected Windfall

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Sorcery (5)

• 1x Brotherhood's End
• 1x Dragonstorm
• 1x Epicenter
• 1x Hell to Pay
• 1x Spark of Creativity

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Glacial Crevasses
• 1x Powerbalance

Artifact (4)

• 1x Matzalantli, the Great Door  ^Flip
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Sceptre of Eternal Glory
• 1x Wand of Wonder

Creature (1)

• 1x Pyre-Sledge Arsonist

Instant (4)

• 1x Guff Rewrites History
• 1x Incendiary Sabotage
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

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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)

• BIG plays:
• 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
• Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Thieves' Auction > sac everything you don't want others to have and steal everything good. Auction gives you first pick unlike Dimensional Breach so you will always get the best card. if there are a certain number of permanents in play you can get an extra card (e.g. if there's 5, 1 goes to each player and it goes back to you. you get the last permanent and the effect ends with you ahead of everyone else by one permanent. works with 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 permanents, and so on. sac just enough permanents so you get the extra.)
• Mycosynth Lattice + Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked + Summoning Station > (currently inactive while i test the list without lattice) 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
• Mycosynth Lattice + Cavern-Hoard Dragon > lots of treasures (currently inactive while i test the list without lattice)
• Cavern-Hoard Dragon + card:Academy Manufacturer + Indomitable Creativity > FREE STUFF YEAH
• Mycosynth Lattice + Generous Plunderer > large damage. huge even (currently inactive while i test the list without lattice)
• Mycosynth Lattice + Vandalblast > classic one-sided board nuke (currently inactive while i test the list without lattice)
• Treasure Nabber + Mycosynth Lattice + Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked > don't tap those lands! (currently inactive while i test the list without lattice)
• Repercussion + Blasphemous Act > Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked ensures u only take 13 damage
• Repercussion + Reckless Endeavor > Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked same as above

• Sensei's Divining Top + Experimental Frenzy + Birgi, God of Storytelling   > draw ya deck!

• SMALLER (but still cool) plays:

• Experimental Frenzy + Sensei's Divining Top > 1 generic draw a card, poggers!
• Mycosynth Lattice + Karn, Scion of Urza or Urza's Saga for a big ole creature (currently inactive while i test the list without lattice)
• Karn, Scion of Urza or Urza's Saga + The Reaver Cleaver > incrementally larger man
• Sensei's Divining Top + Etali, Primal Storm > kinda works

• Sensei's Divining Top + Hit the Mother Lode > lets you choose between potentially a large spell and a few treasures or just 9 treasures

• untap value:

• // Voltaic Key (or any of the artifact untappers) + the followin'....:
• Cursed Recording > duplicating a big spell like Hit the Mother Lode once or twice can swing a game hard, duplicating Spiteful Repossession just wins the game
• The One Ring > best draw power the deck has access to, and if the burden ever gets too high, Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked is ya mans
• Throne of Eldraine > pretty versatile option, mana or cards, whatever you have need for at the time
• Grim Monolith or Mana Vault > classics
• // Clock of Omens works too

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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...

Top Ranked	Achieved #15 position overall 6 months ago Achieved #9 position in Commander / EDH 6 months ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Artifact 6 months ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	3 months
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)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.88
Tokens	2/2 N Creature Pincher, Clue, Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Koth, Fire of Resistance, Food, Junk, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Smaug, The Ring, The Ring Tempts You, Treasure