Card
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
Mana cost {4}{B}
Legendary Creature — Spirit 2/2
Whenever a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step if Shirei is still on the battlefield.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · BOK · #81
- Cheapest printing
- €0.11
- EDHREC salt
- 0.65
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
1 known combo.
- Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker + Coretapper + Magistrate's Scepter
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-12-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Shirei's ability only triggers if the creature's power immediately before leaving the battlefield is 1 or less, regardless of its power in your graveyard. - 2018-12-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Shirei's ability triggers if a creature you own with power 1 or less dies under another player's control. - 2018-12-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If Shirei leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield after a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard, Shirei is considered a new object. The delayed triggered ability won't return the creature to the battlefield. - 2018-12-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Shirei's ability can't return any creatures that died before Shirei entered the battlefield.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast