Ninjitsu updated by jk354

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Dimir ninjutsu tempo strategy helmed by Satoru Umezawa, who grants every creature card in hand a ninjutsu ability. The deck floods the board with cheap, unblockable creatures (Slither Blade, Triton Shorestalker, Changeling Outcast, etc.) and uses them as delivery vehicles to cheat out enormous threats like Blightsteel Colossus, Void Winnower, and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur as early as turn four. The commander's trigger-a once-per-turn top-three dig-provides steady card selection to find the next haymaker or protection spell. Backed by a dense interaction suite (free counterspells, efficient removal, and mass bounce), the deck constantly pressures life totals while disrupting opponents. The primary win condition is repeated combat damage from giant creatures, with Blightsteel Colossus offering an instant one-shot kill on a single opponent via infect. Secondary paths include Radioactive Man's life-halving and a classic draw-go control posture that can pivot to beating down with manlands or copied threats. ---

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
• 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Beseech the Queen
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Edict
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Creeping Tar Pit
• 1 Cunning Evasion
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Darksteel Angel
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Doppelganger
• 1 Dimir Infiltrator
• 1 Dimir Keyrune
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
• 4 Island
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1 Kaito Shizuki
• 1 Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
• 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Ornithopter
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Radioactive Man
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Sakashima's Student
• 1 Satoru Umezawa
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Silent Hallcreeper
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 1 Stature, Size Shifter
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Triton Shorestalker
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Watery Grave