Gojo by user5682049

Format: Commander

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir tempo-combo strategy commanded by Satoru Umezawa, designed to cheat massive, game-ending creatures into play using the Ninjutsu mechanic. The game plan opens with cheap, unblockable one-drop creatures like Slither Blade and Tormented Soul. Once Satoru enters on Turn 3, any unblocked attacker becomes a conduit to drop devastating threats for just four mana on Turn 4. Satoru's triggered ability replaces spent resources by digging three cards deep on every Ninjutsu activation. The deck's primary win condition revolves around pairing life-halving effects—such as Virtus the Veiled, Unstoppable Slasher, and Quietus Spike—with damage doublers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Archfiend of Despair, and Wound Reflection to eliminate opponents in single strikes. A robust suite of eleven counterspells and protective revival spells shields Satoru from removal, while disruptive praetors like Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant and Sheoldred, Whispering One establish midgame board control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alpharael, Stonechosen
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Bounce Off
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consign to Memory
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Declaration of Naught
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Deprive
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Disruptor Flute
  • 1 Divert Disaster
  • 1 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gudul Lurker
  • 1 Havengul Laboratory // Havengul Mystery
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 K-9, Mark I
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Pain 101
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Power Sink
  • 1 Quietus Spike
  • 1 Raving Dead
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reiver Demon
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Scytheclaw
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Skeleton Key
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectrum Sentinel
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Temporal Extortion
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Virtus the Veiled
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Zombify