Ninjas by Crimbin

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow anchors a high-tempo Dimir ninja deck that converts cheap evasive creatures into relentless card advantage and life drain. The primary game plan is to deploy a turn-1 unblockable creature (Changeling Outcast, Slither Blade), ninjutsu Yuriko into combat on turn 2, and then manipulate the top of the library to reveal high-mana-value bombs like Draco (CMC 16), Shadow of Mortality (CMC 15), and Temporal Trespass (CMC 11), dealing massive cumulative damage to all opponents. Backed by a crisp tutor suite, top-deck manipulation (Scroll Rack, Brainstorm), and efficient interaction, the deck pressures from the early turns and can accelerate a kill with an extra turn from Temporal Trespass. Combat-damage ninja triggers (Fallen Shinobi, Ingenious Infiltrator) provide additional value and a secondary path.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral's Order
  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstone
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Draco
  • 1 Dream Beavers
  • 1 Dream Cache
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elektra, Daughter of the Hand
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Icebreaker Kraken
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Moonsnare Specialist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saiba Cryptomancer
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 15 Snow-Covered Island
  • 9 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
  • 1 Stern Dismissal
  • 1 Street Wraith
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow