Yuriko in progress by user9888567

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Yuriko turns unblockable one-drops into a Ninja-fueled drain engine: every Ninja combat hit reveals a card, draws it, and makes each opponent lose life equal to its mana value. The deck accelerates this with top-deck manipulation (Brainstorm, Scroll Rack, tutors) and multi-trigger amplifiers (Roaming Throne, Arcane Adaptation). It can also cheat large threats like Darksteel Colossus through Satoru Umezawa's universal ninjutsu or steal with Fallen Shinobi/Ink-Eyes. Without a two-card combo, the win is a sequence of small drains that snowballs into a lethal double combat around the sixth turn, protected by ten counters and a dense suite of instant-speed interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Gudul Lurker
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Stature, Size Shifter
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow