Yuriko by user3133407

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a focused Dimir Ninja tempo deck helmed by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, built entirely around her ninjutsu drain. The core loop is simple: deploy cheap evasive creatures, ninjutsu Yuriko in for combat damage, and flip high-mana-value cards like Shadow of Mortality, Pathrazer of Ulamog, and Hulking Metamorph to drain the entire table at once. The deck layers top-deck manipulation (Brainstorm, Portent, Serum Visions, Satoru Umezawa) to ensure big flips, and chains ninjutsu activations with Satoru Umezawa and Silver-Fur Master for multiple triggers per combat. Secondary win paths include ninja combat damage, Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion's play-from-exile value, and Hidetsugu and Kairi's death trigger. It is a tempo/aggro deck that wins through cumulative drain and evasive combat rather than combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artificer's Assistant
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Brainstone
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dead Drop
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Machinations
  • 1 Discovery // Dispersal
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Ertai's Scorn
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hulking Metamorph
  • 1 Hurkyl's Final Meditation
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Merfolk Windrobber
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Network Disruptor
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Portent
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Soaring Seacliff
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Sword Coast Sailor
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wingcrafter
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow