Satoru, all ninjas by Thatch

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Dimir deck leverages Satoru Umezawa as a cheat engine, turning cheap unblockable creatures into game-ending threats via ninjutsu. By deploying 1-mana evasive attackers on Turn 1 and casting Satoru on Turn 3, the deck reliably activates ninjutsu on Turn 4 for four mana. Cheating Blightsteel Colossus eliminates an opponent immediately with 11 infect damage, while Ancient Silver Dragon, Archon of Cruelty, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater generate massive card draw and board dominance. Satoru provides steady card selection on every ninjutsu activation. A premier suite of zero-mana and one-mana counterspells protects the engine while tapped out. Backup lines through Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow burn and reanimation ensure resilience against commander removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gudul Lurker
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Inkfathom Infiltrator
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 9 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Void
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow