MGS Artifacts Ninjutsu by MarcFrau

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Dimir Ninjutsu strategy commanded by Satoru Umezawa. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost, unblockable creatures on early turns, casting Satoru on Turn 3, and utilizing his universal ninjutsu ability on Turn 4 to cheat massive artifact behemoths directly onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Heavy hitters like Darksteel Colossus, Ancient Stone Idol, Inkwell Leviathan, and Phyrexian Triniform apply immediate life-total pressure while Satoru's triggered ability provides consistent card selection. The deck's primary strength lies in its high functional redundancy, resilient evasive beaters, and ability to bypass standard countermagic during combat. Its primary weaknesses are a prolonged multi-turn combat clock that gives the table four or more response cycles, heavy reliance on the commander to cheat mana costs, and a sparse reactive suite that struggles to contest faster spell-based combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Denied
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Aether Figment
  • 1 Alloy Myr
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bygone Colossus
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gudul Lurker
  • 1 Haunt the Network
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Myr Welder
  • 1 Neurok Stealthsuit
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Phyrexian Fleshgorger
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Phyrexian Scriptures
  • 1 Phyrexian Triniform
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Reality Heist
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spectrum Sentinel
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 String of Disappearances
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Thopter Assembly
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Walking Skyscraper
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine