Yuriko by das-katzen

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This is a general-power Dimir evasive-creature and Ninja deck centered on Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. The ideal opening plays a one-mana unblockable or evasive creature, attacks on turn two, and uses commander ninjutsu to put Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow into combat. Each connected Ninja reveals a card, draws it, and makes every opponent lose life equal to its mana value. Cheap Ninjas such as Moon-Circuit Hacker, Silver-Fur Master, and Dokuchi Silencer increase trigger density while Smoke Shroud and Feywild Visitor improve the combat plan. The deck has useful creature and hand disruption, but little stack interaction, few tutors, and limited protection. It can assemble its engine quickly, yet its table kill depends on repeated attacks, unblocked creatures, and favorable enough revealed mana values. Its main weaknesses are removal, blockers, sweepers, and the lack of a deterministic backup when Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is unavailable.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alora, Merry Thief
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archive Dragon
• 1 Artificer's Assistant
• 1 Azra Smokeshaper
• 1 Battlefly Swarm
• 1 Chart a Course
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Council of Echoes
• 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
• 1 Departed Deckhand
• 1 Depth Charge Colossus
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Guildgate
• 1 Dimir Locket
• 1 Dismal Backwater
• 1 Dokuchi Silencer
• 1 Duress
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Eye Collector
• 1 Faerie Duelist
• 1 Faerie Vandal
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Fetid Imp
• 1 Feywild Visitor
• 1 Futurist Operative
• 1 Gloomfang Mauler
• 1 Gray Harbor Merfolk
• 1 Gurmag Rakshasa
• 1 Illusory Ambusher
• 1 Inkrise Infiltrator
• 1 Inside Information
• 12 Island
• 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
• 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
• 1 Kami of Restless Shadows
• 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
• 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
• 1 Moonblade Shinobi
• 1 Moonsnare Specialist
• 1 Mukotai Ambusher
• 1 Ninja of the New Moon
• 1 Ornithopter
• 1 Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising
• 1 Palace Familiar
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Phantom Ninja
• 1 Rampaging Spiketail
• 1 Rilsa Rael, Kingpin
• 1 Risky Shortcut
• 1 River Sneak
• 1 Run Away Together
• 1 Shadow of Mortality
• 1 Silver-Fur Master
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Smoke Shroud
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Salvage
• 1 Soured Springs
• 1 Stirge
• 1 Stoic Sphinx
• 1 Striped Riverwinder
• 15 Swamp
• 1 Sword Coast Sailor
• 1 Tattered Haunter
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 Threnody Singer
• 1 Tolarian Terror
• 1 Tormented Soul
• 1 Triton Shorestalker
• 1 Tyrant's Scorn
• 1 Wretched Gryff
• 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow