Satoru by SkilfulTrain

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir ninja-cheat strategy helmed by Satoru Umezawa. The primary game plan leverages Satoru's ability to give every creature card in hand ninjutsu, allowing small evasive creatures to enable the rapid deployment of high-impact bombs like Toxrill, the Corrosive, Archon of Cruelty, and Lord of the Void directly into combat. A secondary win condition revolves around Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, whose combat-damage trigger can drain all opponents for large amounts of life by revealing high-mana-value cards from the deck. The deck also includes a modest reanimation package and a suite of interaction to protect its board. The strategy is linear: establish an unblockable attacker, deploy Satoru, then cheat in a value creature each turn. The deck lacks fast mana and tutors, making it reliant on natural draws to find its key pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agna Qel'a
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Depravity
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
• 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Callous Inspector
• 1 Cat-Gator
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dimir Infiltrator
• 1 Dimir Keyrune
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dreadwing Scavenger
• 1 Dusk Mangler
• 1 Escape Tunnel
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Expendable Lackey
• 1 Faerie Seer
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Foggy Swamp Spirit Keeper
• 1 Forum Necroscribe
• 1 Grappling Kraken
• 1 Hollow Marauder
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 10 Island
• 1 Kitsune, Dragon's Daughter
• 1 Koh, the Face Stealer
• 1 Krang & Shredder
• 1 Krang, Master Mind
• 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lord of the Void
• 1 Lydia Frye
• 1 Masterful Flourish
• 1 Mechanozoa
• 1 Necropolis Regent
• 1 Negate
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perigee Beckoner
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Prosperous Thief
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sandstorm Verge
• 1 Satoru Umezawa
• 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
• 1 Scarblade's Malice
• 1 Sea Gate Colossus
• 1 Secret Tunnel
• 1 Security Bypass
• 1 Sepulchral Primordial
• 1 Serpent's Pass
• 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
• 1 Shadow Rift
• 1 Silent Hallcreeper
• 1 Smoke Bomb
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soured Springs
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Super Shredder
• 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Turtle Lair
• 1 Unsummon
• 1 Vampire Soulcaller
• 1 Voidforged Titan
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
• 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
• 1 Zombify