Yuriko by user5005948

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 68

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive tempo-burn strategy commanded by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. It leverages cheap, unblockable one-drop creatures to trigger commander ninjutsu on turn 2, dodging commander tax and drawing cards while draining the entire table. The deck magnifies Yuriko's combat triggers by manipulating high-mana-value spells such as Draco, Shadow of Mortality, and extra-turn spells onto the top of the library with Brainstorm, Scroll Rack, and Sensei's Divining Top. As Yuriko continuously restocks your hand, free and low-cost interaction like Force of Will, Deadly Rollick, and Flare of Denial protects your attackers and disrupts opposing game plans without stalling your mana development. When combat damage does not close the game immediately, an alternate win condition via Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation provides a compact three-mana finish. The deck maintains relentless pressure from the earliest turns, punishing slow starts and out-valuing opponents through uncounterable ninjutsu activations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Connive // Concoct
  • 1 Consign // Oblivion
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Devastation Tide
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Draco
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fourth Bridge Prowler
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Rags // Riches
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Subtlety
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wingcrafter
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow