Nefarious Ninjitsu by user2509959

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Dimir Ninja tempo and aggro-burn strategy commanded by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost, unblockable creatures on Turn 1 to enable Turn 2 Commander Ninjutsu. When Yuriko and other Ninjas deal combat damage to players, they draw cards and reveal the top of the library, draining each opponent for the revealed card's mana value. The deck converts high-CMC cards into burn damage without paying their casting costs, utilizing alternate-cost spells like Deadly Rollick, Disrupting Shoal, and Sickening Shoal to maintain tempo and board protection. Supporting Ninjas such as Ingenious Infiltrator, Fallen Shinobi, and Silver-Fur Master widen the board, while Shredder, Shadow Master accelerates life total reduction. With resilient commander recursion that ignores commander tax, the deck applies relentless table-wide pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Covert Technician
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Disrupting Shoal
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Eater of Virtue
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 1 Inevitable Betrayal
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 1 Inkrise Infiltrator
  • 1 Invoke the Winds
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kairi, the Swirling Sky
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kotose, the Silent Spider
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 March of Wretched Sorrow
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Moonsnare Specialist
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue Class
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saiba Cryptomancer
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sickening Shoal
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow