Beware the shadows by Xelitaz

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-tempo Dimir Ninja burn deck commanded by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. The primary game plan deploys low-cost, unblockable creatures on Turn 1 to enable Commander Ninjutsu on Turn 2. Once on the board, Yuriko turns every connecting Ninja into card advantage and global life loss by revealing the top card of the library. The list manipulates the top of the library using cards like Brainstorm, Sensei's Divining Top, and Ponder to reveal high-mana-value spells such as Temporal Trespass and In Garruk's Wake, rapidly draining all three opponents simultaneously. Efficient free interaction, including Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Deadly Rollick, protects key combat steps and disrupts opposing plans without slowing down mana deployment.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 1 Inkfathom Infiltrator
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Phantom Ninja
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Quietus Spike
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
  • 1 Spy Network
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow