Yuriko, Turtle Shadow by Paz032

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a high-tide, combo-leaning Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow list that blends the classic Ninja burn plan with a compact, tutor-heavy win package. The primary game plan is to deploy cheap unblockable or evasive attackers, use ninjutsu to put Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow and other Ninjas into play tapped and attacking, and convert combat damage into massive card advantage plus life loss via Yuriko's reveal trigger. The deck's secondary, and genuinely more important, plan is a fast combo kill: Demonic Consultation / Tainted Pact into Thassa's Oracle wins the game on the spot, with Enter the Infinite + Thassa's Oracle as a backup one-shot, and Shadow of Mortality as a high-mana-value Yuriko flip to dome the table. The commander is both an engine and a finisher: her ninjutsu cost makes her cheap to redeploy, and her trigger turns a single unblocked swing into a three-opponent life loss event.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Covert Technician
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Enter the Infinite
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Harrier Strix
  • 1 Haunted Fengraf
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Here Comes a New Hero!
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Savanti Romero, Time's Exile
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Shredder's Revenge
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
  • 1 Subtlety
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Titan of Littjara
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow