X Satoru Ninjutsu

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Satoru Umezawa turns every creature card in hand into a surprise ninjutsu payload. The deck uses cheap unblockable creatures to deliver high-impact threats-Archon of Cruelty, Rune-Scarred Demon, Summon: Primal Odin-directly into combat, stacking enters and attacks triggers while Satoru refills the hand. It plays as a tempo/cheat midrange deck that can also assemble infinite-mana lines with Hullbreaker Horror plus Sol Ring/Ornithopter or Deadeye Navigator plus Peregrine Drake, using Archon as the payoff. The primary win is incremental combat damage from huge ninjutsu hits; the secondary path is an Odin one-shot kill loop, with combos as an accelerant if assembled.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abnormal Endurance
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Finality
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Augury Owl
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Bladegriff Prototype
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cunning Evasion
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doc Ock's Tentacles
  • 1 Dreamscape Artist
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dusk Mangler
  • 1 Evil Twin
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kitsune, Dragon's Daughter
  • 1 Krang & Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Mindleech Mass
  • 1 Necropolis Regent
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phyrexian Ingester
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Utter Insignificance
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wingcrafter