Ninja King by user9319195

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive tempo and burn engine led by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. The primary plan curves a one-drop unblockable creature on turn 1 into a turn 2 commander ninjutsu activation. Once on the battlefield, Yuriko turns combat connections into card advantage and table-wide life loss. The deck leverages top-deck manipulation such as Brainstorm, Lim-Dûl's Vault, and Scroll Rack to place massive mana-value cards like Shadow of Mortality and Temporal Trespass on top of the library. This turns each unblocked Ninja trigger into a lethal burst of damage against all opponents at once. Free interaction spells like Deadly Rollick, Flare of Denial, and Misdirection protect the board while allowing the deck to spend its mana advancing its board state. Stax pieces like Cursed Totem and Grafdigger's Cage slow down opposing combos while Ninjas quickly close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cunning Evasion
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Devastation Tide
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
  • 1 Karn's Temporal Sundering
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ninja's Blades
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Phantom Ninja
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Time Stretch
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow