Finally we move onto the most interesting color combinations. We are now in tri-colored territory! Tri-colored cards are my favorite, because they originate all the way back in Invasion and Apocalypse, and more recently in the Shards of Alara block, which is my favorite block. For the first Tri-colored combination, we have the mechanical plane of Esper, which is Black, White, and Blue. As for our general, we have the most used General in EDH himself, Sharuum the Hegemon!
For six mana, Sharuum the Hegemon is a 5/5 flying that is an artifact creature. Sharuum's ability is what makes him so popular. When Sharuum comes into play, you may put an artifact card from your graveyard to play. This is so good because you have a constant source of recursion, but not only that, a big creature to back you up if you get into trouble. Plus since Sharuum is pretty big, he can deal a good amount of commander damage. Now that is where the extent of Sharuum's abilities end, and where the deck that backs him up comes into play. The best way to take advantage to Sharuum's ability without playing him over and over again would be to keep blinking him on and off the battlefield. Blinking is exiling a creature but then it returns at your next end step. The bets way to do this is to to use Venser, the Sojourner's +2 ability to blink Sharuum, and when Sharuum comes back into play, you can bring another artifact to play. Another way to do this constantly would be a Mystifying Maze, where you attack with Sharuum and exile him. Sure you will be missing out on commander damage, but at least you get another artifact back! One more way to do this is to use Ghostaway, but since that is an instat, I would recommend using it only when Sharuum is in jeopardy.
Sharuum's deck is very not dependant on Sharuum himself, so make sure you have a deck that absolutely works without Sharuum in play.
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