Zoo of Shirei

Commander / EDH Combo Mono-Black Sacrifice

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Creature (39)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Bottle Gnomes
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Clattering Augur
• 1x Death Cultist
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Farfinder
• 1x Foreboding Statue  ^Flip
• 1x Fume Spitter
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Haunt of the Dead Marshes
• 1x Henrika Domnathi  ^Flip
• 1x Herald of Anguish
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Liliana's Shade
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Scorn-Blade Berserker
• 1x Skullport Merchant
• 1x Skyscanner
• 1x Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirror Shield
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Throne of Eldraine
• 1x Weatherlight Compleated

Land (32)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x High Market
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 26x Swamp
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Instant (6)

• 1x Armor of Shadows
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 1x Not Dead After All
• 1x Orcish Medicine
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Village Rites

Commander (1)

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eaten Alive
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Sign in Blood

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Herald of Anguish

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Read the Bones

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Hi,

after playing Simic for a while i stepped into mono-black. Goal is to get Shirei out by Turn 4 or less, protect him from harm and then prosper of the infinite revival of my mini-cards. This is through their effects (like Farfinder giving me insane amounts of Swamps or Skyscanner letting me draw), effects that live off of death (Syr Konrad, Blood Painter) or effects that require sacrifice (like Braids or Ormendahl or Attrition - the last one being absolute game winner/ maybe too strong).

The most valuable cards are those who can Sacrifice themselves for free as they can effectively trigger every opponents turn (like Mindless Automaton letting me draw a card every opponents turn or Triskelion dealing 3 damage every opponents turn).

It is really fun to play and strategic, yet it prints a huge crossmark on Shirei, so i put in many cards to defend him (like Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots or Blessing of the Leeches).

I added Meteor Golem against enchantments. Also with the -1 Tokens from Necropede and Fumespitter and ANimate Dead i sometimes can recycle him (or Burnished Hart or Asphodel). Also he can be revived by Scarecrone.

I d like to keep it single digit budget per cards, so i could not add Yawgmoth, Damnation or the one that turns everything into swamps.

Thanks to Crypt of Agadeem and the Cabal Lands and the Wayfinder/Pilgrim Eye engine, Plunderer and Blackmarket i end up with literal tons of mana. Yet i lack a way of fueling all this mana into a huge winning effect...

So my precise questions (apart from being open to general ideas) would be, which budget friendly game enders, that at best DON't are dead in my hand should i add and what to throw out for them? I definitely want to add Liliana's Shade, yet i don't know what to throw out... For mana-fueled explosions i thought of Killing Wave, as i could spare Shirei and the rest d be revived anyways, while my opponents are stuck with loosing live or loosing creatures. Yet i also don't know what to throw out. I'm not sure concerning Herald of Anguish... thx to my many artifacts and Treasures he could be quite cheap and has a built in sacrifice engine, yet maybe something else d be better.

I'm open to suggestions!

THX

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 1 Mythic Rares 18 - 0 Rares 27 - 1 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.66
Tokens	Goblin 1/1 R, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Orc Army, Treasure, Wicked