Yuriko by MalthRa

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow spearheads an aggressive tempo strategy designed to drain the entire table simultaneously through combat-triggered life loss. The deck curves cheap, evasive one-drop creatures into an uncounterable commander ninjutsu activation as early as turn two. Once Yuriko connects, topdeck manipulation cards like Scroll Rack, Lim-Dul's Vault, and Mystical Tutor arrange massive mana value spells such as Shadow of Mortality and Temporal Trespass on top of the library. Each successful ninja hit reveals these high-cost cards to deal devastating burn damage to every opponent while drawing them into hand. A dense suite of free and efficient interaction protects this fast clock until victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brush Off
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Consign // Oblivion
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deep-Sea Kraken
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Moonsnare Specialist
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saiba Cryptomancer
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Street Wraith
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Wingcrafter
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow