Shirei turns every power-1-or-less creature into a recurring sacrifice resource: each one sacrificed to a free outlet comes back at the next end step, ready to die again next turn. The deck is packed with cheap 1-power bodies that pay off when they die or enter (removal pings, treasures, cards, life drain). Free sac outlets and Grave Pact-style punishers grind opponents' boards away while drain enchantments and creatures turn each death into lost life. Because Shirei's return happens at the end step, the loop is one cycle per turn rather than infinite, so the deck wins by repeated value and attrition, not a single combo. How it wins: It grinds opponents out with repeated death-trigger drain from aristocrat payoffs, backed by edicts and Crypt Rats sweeps, finishing with Fell Beast of Mordor, Skirsdag demons or Summon: Primal Odin. Key roles: - Sacrifice outlets: Free or cheap ways to kill the deck's own creatures at instant speed, converting each body into mana, scry, counters or cards so Shirei's returns can be cashed in every turn (Ashnod's Altar, Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder). - Recursive death-trigger fodder: 1-power creatures whose death or entry effects give value every time Shirei brings them back, shrinking opposing creatures, making treasure or drawing cards (Festering Mummy, Greedy Freebooter, Dusk Legion Zealot). - Aristocrat drain: Permanents that make each opponent lose life whenever creatures die or leave the graveyard, so the repeated sacrifice loop becomes the win condition (Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Marionette Apprentice). - Edicts and board control: Grave Pact effects and repeatable sweepers that use the deck's own expendable creatures to strip opponents' boards, plus recurring enter-the-battlefield removal (Grave Pact, Abyssal Gatekeeper, Crypt Rats). - Sacrifice-fueled card flow: Draw engines that turn deaths into cards to keep the grind going (Skullclamp, Morbid Opportunist, Vampiric Rites). - Bogbrew Witch package: The Witch tutors Festering Newt and Bubbling Cauldron, and Shirei returns the Newt each turn so it can be sacrificed again for a repeatable 4-life drain on each opponent, made stronger by Newt's -4/-4 bonus (Bogbrew Witch, Festering Newt, Bubbling Cauldron).

The Revolving Door decklist

• 34× Swamp
• Bojuka Bog
• Altar's Reap
• Ashnod's Altar
• Cadaver Imp
• Carrion Feeder
• Dusk Legion Zealot
• Festering Newt
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Buried Ruin
• Grave Pact
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Big Game Hunter
• Myriad Landscape
• Hecatomb
• Mindless Automaton
• Abyssal Gatekeeper
• Bloodthrone Vampire
• Corpse Blockade
• Viscera Seer
• Noosegraf Mob
• Priest of Forgotten Gods
• Apprentice Necromancer
• Fume Spitter
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Mausoleum Secrets
• Kalastria Healer
• Vampiric Rites
• Spawning Pit
• Blood Pet
• Jet Medallion
• Bone Shredder
• Crypt Rats
• Dark Privilege
• Kaya's Ghostform
• Defile
• Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• Festering Mummy
• Mirror Shield
• Gleaming Barrier
• Skirsdag High Priest
• Bogbrew Witch
• Bubbling Cauldron
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Serrated Scorpion
• Soldevi Adnate
• Blessing of Leeches
• Commander's Plate
• Professor's Warning
• Blight Mound
• Clattering Augur
• Skullport Merchant
• Shambling Ghast
• Morbid Opportunist
• Agent of the Iron Throne
• Vicious Battlerager
• Disciple of Perdition
• Scorn-Blade Berserker
• Mithril Coat
• Fell Beast of Mordor
• Greedy Freebooter
• Soul Enervation
• Marionette Apprentice
• Summon: Primal Odin
• Desecrated Tomb