Quietly Into the Night by jmajewicz23

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow leads a Dimir tempo-turns build that wants to weaponize her commander ninjutsu. The plan is to put a cheap unblockable or evasive creature into play, ninjutsu Yuriko in from the command zone tapped and attacking, then turn her trigger into a table-wide life-loss machine by stacking the top of the library with high-mana-value cards. Top-deck manipulation from Vampiric Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Lim-Dul's Vault sets up the seven extra-turn spells as 5-11 point flips. Additional Ninjas like Ingenious Infiltrator, Thousand-Faced Shadow, and Mist-Syndicate Naga create multiple Yuriko triggers per combat. There is no infinite combo; the deck closes through chained extra turns, cumulative Yuriko drain, and token pressure from Bitterblossom and Notorious Throng. Yuriko's commander ninjutsu from the command zone keeps her cheap and aggressively redeployable.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alrund's Epiphany
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspiracy
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Embrace
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dream Beavers
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana Vess
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Time Stretch
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Trickery Charm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Walker of Secret Ways
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow