Satoru Umezawa (maybe?)

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Satoru Umezawa leads a Dimir tempo and cheat strategy designed to drop evasive creatures early and swap them for game-ending behemoths. By granting every creature in hand ninjutsu for four mana and providing card selection on each swap, Satoru accelerates heavy hitters like Archon of Cruelty, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Ancient Brass Dragon turns ahead of schedule. The deck reinforces this combat plan with lethal infinite combos, featuring the direct life-drain loop between Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Starscape Cleric alongside Grand Architect and Pili-Pala. Backed by extensive counterspells and efficient card draw, Satoru consistently dominates the board and closes out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blinkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grand Architect
  • 1 Gudul Lurker
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pili-Pala
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thalakos Seer
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsubstantiate
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow