🎅Secret Santa 2024🎅 by irisible

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Dimir tempo deck uses Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow to convert cheap, unblockable attackers into explosive card advantage and unpreventable table-wide life loss. By casting an evasive creature on Turn 1 and activating Commander Ninjutsu on Turn 2, the deck circumvents commander tax and counterspells, immediately establishing its card flow engine. The deck stacks its library using Brainstorm, Lim-Dûl's Vault, Sensei's Divining Top, and Vampiric Tutor to reveal massive mana value cards like Draco, Shadow of Mortality, and Temporal Trespass, dealing 10 to 16 damage to all three opponents simultaneously per trigger. Supporting Ninjas like Ingenious Infiltrator and Fallen Shinobi maintain pressure and steal opposing resources, while free and low-cost interaction like Fierce Guardianship and Counterspell protects the board. With low operational mana requirements, tax-immune commander ninjutsu, and dense evasive redundancy, the deck reliably closes games around Turn 5 through relentless, non-targeted burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Connive // Concoct
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cunning Evasion
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dead Drop
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Discovery // Dispersal
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Draco
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Filter Out
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Murderous Cut
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ninja's Blades
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phantom Ninja
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Telling Time
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Throatseeker
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow