Yuriko v1

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 70

Deck overview

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow helms a high-velocity cEDH tempo and burn deck that converts evasive one-drop creatures into massive card advantage and global life loss. By utilizing Commander Ninjutsu, Yuriko enters the battlefield attacking as early as Turn 2 for just {U}{B}, completely dodging the commander tax and conventional spell counters. The deck manipulates the top of its library with cards like Brainstorm, Lim-Dûl's Vault, and topdeck tutors to reveal high mana value spells like Shadow of Mortality (15 damage) and Temporal Trespass (11 damage), draining all three opponents simultaneously. Backed by a dense package of free countermagic (Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship) and efficient removal (Deadly Rollick, Snuff Out), the deck maintains tempo while developing its board. In addition to overwhelming combat burn, the deck carries the compact win condition of Thassa's Oracle paired with Demonic Consultation, providing a fast, unpreventable finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abjure
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Consign // Oblivion
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Devastation Tide
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dream Beavers
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Silver Raven
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow