Yuriko by JokerRogue

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow deck is a high-tempo aggro-control deck designed to burn down all three opponents simultaneously through combat triggers and top-deck manipulation. It establishes an evasive 1-drop on turn 1, activates commander ninjutsu on turn 2 to cheat Yuriko into play, and begins drawing cards while pinging the table. As additional Ninjas enter the battlefield, the deck leverages top-deck manipulation cards like Brainstorm, Scroll Rack, Lim-Dûl's Vault, and Insidious Dreams to place high-mana cards such as Draco and Shadow of Mortality on top of the library. This turns combat connections into devastating 10 to 16 point life-loss triggers for each opponent. The deck protects its aggressive engine using zero-mana and cheap interaction, including Force of Will, Deadly Rollick, and Snuff Out, which bypass mana constraints. It consistently closes games around turns 5 to 6 through overwhelming table-wide burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consign // Oblivion
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Distortion Strike
  • 1 Draco
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Hope of Ghirapur
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Insidious Dreams
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Murderous Cut
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Network Disruptor
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow