Faded Plastic (Shorikai EDH)

Commander / EDH Artifact Crew Vehicle WU (Azorius)

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Artifact (29)

• 1x Aerial Surveyor
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Careening Mine Cart
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Colossal Plow
• 1x Cultivator's Caravan
• 1x Dusk Rose Reliquary
• 1x Imposter Mech
• 1x Inverted Iceberg  ^Flip
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mighty Servant of Leuk-o
• 1x Mobilizer Mech
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Parhelion II
• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Peacewalker Colossus
• 1x Prodigy's Prototype
• 1x Raiders' Karve
• 1x Scourglass
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Surgehacker Mech
• 1x The Everflowing Well  ^Flip
• 1x The Mightstone and Weakstone  ^Meld
• 1x Waterlogged Hulk  ^Flip
• 1x Weatherlight

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Swift Reconfiguration

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Hall of Tagsin
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 8x Island
• 1x Mech Hangar
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 11x Plains
• 1x Razortide Bridge
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shire Terrace
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x The Mycosynth Gardens

Instant (11)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Loran's Escape
• 1x Plated Onslaught
• 1x Urza's Command
• 1x Vanish into Memory

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x Aeronaut Admiral
• 1x Filigree Angel
• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Great Desert Prospector
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x Steelfin Whale
• 1x The Omenkeel  ^Flip
• 1x Urza, Lord Protector  ^Meld
• 1x Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
• 1x Vedalken Engineer
• 1x Wonder

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Argivian Restoration
• 1x Distant Memories
• 1x Hour of Reckoning
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Profound Journey
• 1x Refurbish
• 1x Repair and Recharge
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Supreme Verdict

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• Major Themes/Archetype: Vehicles
• Subthemes: Artifacts and Artifact Creatures
• Planar Flavor: Kamigawa, Mirrodin, Esper, Dominaria
• Basic Land Art: Halo vibes

This deck is a fairly straightforward upgrade of the Buckle Up precon from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. While not as high-concept as some of my decks, I've been very pleasantly surprised by this one. Vehicles are so much more than undercosted beaters!

Importantly, creatures with summoning sickness can still crew. This means we can activate Shorikai, create a pilot token, and immediately use it. And if you don't have quite enough pilot power to crew your big top-end vehicle—say you have one pilot token, a Raiders' Karve, and Parhelion II—you can chain the smaller crewed vehicle into the larger one. It's not hard to imagine such a scenario when Shorikai can come down and pop out a pilot in the same turn, perhaps also drawing you into a cheap vehicle which can help crew something immediately.

That said, Shorikai's pilot tokens crew in increments of 3, which just so happens to be the threshold for a lot of impactful vehicles like Weatherlight and Imposter Mech. It only takes two dinky 1/1 pilot tokens to crew heavy hitters like Colossal Plow.

Meanwhile, Shorikai's draw 2, discard 1 provides some excellent card selection, while setting up our graveyard for artifact reanimator cards like Refurbish.

And finally, though it can feel like a drawback that vehicles require a steady supply of pilots for them to function as creatures, the fact that vehicles crew only for the turn means they dodge a lot of removal. Selective board wipes like Hour of Reckoning pass over your pilots, setting you up to crew and swing out on a more favorable field. Crackback who?

The result is a very flexible, hard-hitting aggro deck that can evade and bounce back from removal, keep the pressure on, and draw a silly amount of cards. Highly recommend!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	5 months
Exclude colors	BRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Construct 0/0 C, Pilot 1/1 C, Powerstone, Treasure
Folders	precon, EDH current decks