Sampouxriko

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 86

Deck overview

This list is an optimized competitive Commander tempo-combo deck helmed by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. It leverages low-cost, unblockable creatures to trigger commander ninjutsu on Turn 2, circumventing commander tax while generating continuous card flow and life-total pressure across all opponents. The primary win condition is the compact and highly efficient combo of Thassa's Oracle paired with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, capable of closing the game on Turn 3. Supported by format-ceiling fast mana and top-tier tutors, the deck assembles its winning line with extreme consistency. Defensively, it runs a robust suite of free and low-cost counterspells to shield its win attempts and disrupt opposing turbo strategies. Stax pieces like Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters punish opposing game plans, while high-mana-value cards like Shadow of Mortality provide a potent secondary clock through Yuriko triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brainsurge
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Consultation
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dokuchi Silencer
• 1 Doomsday
• 1 Enter the Enigma
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faerie Seer
• 1 Fallen Shinobi
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flare of Denial
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Gudul Lurker
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1 Island
• 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
• 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 March of Swirling Mist
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1 Mistblade Shinobi
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mockingbird
• 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mox Amber
• 1 Mox Diamond
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Opt
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Ornithopter
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Sakashima's Student
• 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shadow of Mortality
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Silver-Fur Master
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Snow-Covered Island
• 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tainted Pact
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
• 1 Tormented Soul
• 1 Trickery Charm
• 1 Triton Shorestalker
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow