Yuriko b3 27/100 by Dastroxy

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a tempo-control Ninja build that treats Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow as a one-card draw-and-drain engine in the command zone. The plan is to deploy zero- and one-mana evasive bodies, ninjutsu Yuriko and a second wave of Ninjas into combat, and convert every Ninja combat-damage trigger into cards plus table-wide life loss keyed to high-mana-value reveals like Shadow of Mortality, Dig Through Time, and Sea Gate Restoration. A dense stack of free interaction - Force of Negation, Deadly Rollick, Commandeer, Misdirection - protects the attack step and answers opposing combo turns, while Bitterblossom and Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive keep the ninjutsu pipeline stocked. There are no infinite combos; the win is cumulative: multiple reveal triggers per turn, Fallen Shinobi's free-cast theft, and Ninja beatdowns close out all three opponents around turns five to six.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow