satoru (copy) by jack7079

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Dimir tempo-value deck built around the unique ninjutsu enabler Satoru Umezawa. The primary game plan is to deploy a cheap evasive creature early, then use Satoru's ability to give every creature card in hand ninjutsu, cheating out massive threats like Archon of Cruelty, Mindleech Mass, and Grave Titan as early as turn four. Each ninjutsu activation also triggers Satoru's card selection, providing consistent access to the right tool. The deck wins through incremental combat damage, repeated value triggers from high-impact creatures, and the occasional alternate win condition via Atemsis, All-Seeing or Torgaar, Famine Incarnate (halving a life total). There are no infinite combos; the strategy relies on overwhelming the board with powerful creatures that generate card advantage, removal, and life loss while maintaining a suite of counterspells and bounce spells to protect the critical ninjutsu chain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foil
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Illvoi Galeblade
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Kitsune, Dragon's Daughter
  • 1 Krang & Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Mindleech Mass
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Quicksilver Amulet
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Robe of Mirrors
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Silver Raven
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Whoosh!