Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow by DeckCheckMTG2025

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow tempo/aggro-control deck built around the commander's ninjutsu ability and her combat-damage trigger, which both draws cards and burns each opponent for the mana value of the revealed card. The deck floods the board with cheap unblockable attackers - Changeling Outcast, Ornithopter, Inkfathom Infiltrator, Looter il-Kor - then ninjutsu's in evasive Ninjas like Biting-Palm Ninja, Silver-Fur Master, and Thousand-Faced Shadow to chain repeated Yuriko triggers. The most explosive hits come from topdeck manipulation via Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, Brainstorm, and Mystic Forge, setting up large mana-value reveals such as Time Stretch, Temporal Trespass, and Dig Through Time to drain the table. Kaito planeswalkers, Shredder, Shadow Master, and extra turns serve as alternate avenues to close out games. The deck is fast, evasive, and rewards careful sequencing of the top of the library.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Alora, Merry Thief
• 1 Amonkhet Raceway
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avishkar Raceway
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Clutch of the Undercity
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Cutpurse
• 1 Dimir Infiltrator
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dismal Backwater
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
• 1 Higure, the Still Wind
• 1 Horobi's Whisper
• 1 Inkfathom Infiltrator
• 1 Inventive Iteration // Living Breakthrough
• 12 Island
• 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
• 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Looter il-Kor
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mistblade Shinobi
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mukotai Ambusher
• 1 Mystic Forge
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Nezumi Prowler
• 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1 Oona's Blackguard
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Ornithopter
• 1 Perplex
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Prosperous Thief
• 1 Reaper's Scythe
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Shred Memory
• 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
• 1 Silver-Fur Master
• 1 Skullsnatcher
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Manipulation
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 1 Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Temporal Trespass
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 The Reality Chip
• 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
• 1 Throat Slitter
• 1 Time Stop
• 1 Time Stretch
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Veil of Secrecy
• 1 Walker of Secret Ways
• 1 Waterveil Cavern
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow