Duct Ape
The nice thing about a new Magic set is that it always provides new best friends to some old, lonely creatures. Not Gottlieb. But some more socially adjusted fellows like, in this case, Desecration Elemental. You want to play the 4-mana 8/8 fear creature. I know you do. (I’m a cranially-enhanced chimp. We can tell these things.) But you don’t because it’ll kill all your other stuff and then itself. So, Desecration Elemental has a drawback. That’s not anything you have to worry about anymore now that Shirei, Shizo’s Caretaker is in town. Whenever any of your 1-power creatures die, you get them back for free. Whenever any of your 0-power creatures die, you get them back for free. Unless your opponent plays half a dozen spells a turn (like a Shrieking Drake or something), Desecration Elemental won’t run out of fodder. Note the time delay on Shirei—you’re not going infinite off this thing. But you can still have fun.
I have two words for you: Rukh Egg. Find a way to sacrifice it (Spawning Pit? Phyrexian Plaguelord?) and you get a 4/4 flying creature token every turn. And not just every one of your own turns—Shirei pulls your creatures back at the end of every turn. Sakura-Tribe Elder gets even sillier than it was. Daring Apprentice has to grapple with summoning sickness each time it comes back, but if it counters more than one spell, you’re ahead of the game. Wall of Mulch lets you pay to draw a card every turn of the game—and it blocks, too.
How about naturally 0/0 creatures that come into play with counters? The Affinity deck is too fast to add a 5-mana 2/2 creature, but casual decks can combine Shirei with Arcbound creatures to good effect. Karstoderm comes into play as a 4-mana 5/5; after it wastes away to nothing, Shirei restores it to full vigor. Triskelion can ping your opponent or his creatures twice each turn, then ping itself so it dies and comes back refreshed.THE WEAK SHALL INHERIT
Creature (35)
2 Birds of Paradise
2 Cabal Trainee
2 Carrion Feeder
3 Desecration Elemental
2 Festering Goblin
1 Karstoderm
1 Pentavus
4 Phyrexian Plaguelord
2 Ravenous Rats
2 Rukh Egg
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Shirei, Shizo’s Caretaker
1 Summoner’s Egg
1 Triskelion
4 Wall of Mulch
Artifact (2)
2 Spawning Pit
Land (24)
8 Swamp
2 Mountain
8 Forest
4 Llanowar Wastes
2 Mirrodin’s Core
61 Cards
引用元
MONKEY BUSINESS Posted in Feature on January 27, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/monkey-business-2005-01-27
『神河謀叛』のカードを使った、デッキ紹介記事です。昨日のとは異なり、デッキリストはちゃんと載っています。
《死蔵の世話人、死零/Shirei, Shizo’s Caretaker》で、小型クリーチャーを使い回すコンボデッキです。小型クリーチャーのPIGや自己サクリ能力だけでなく、サクリ台としてどのクリーチャーを選ぶかなど、デッキ構築次点での選択肢が多く、アレコレ想像するだけでも楽しいデッキと言えるでしょう。結果、ほぼ土地とクリーチャーだけという特異なデッキ構成なのも面白いところです。
ここで引用したデッキ以外にも、《塵を飲み込むもの、放粉痢/Hokori, Dust Drinker》とマナファクトを詰め込んだロックデッキと、《人工進化/Artificial Evolution》と《金切り声のドレイク/Shrieking Drake》でスピリットクラフトを大量に誘発させるコンボデッキが掲載されています。
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