Control combo by Retro

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 74

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized tempo and combo strategy led by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. It leverages cheap, unblockable one-drop creatures like Changeling Outcast and Mist-Cloaked Herald to trigger Commander Ninjutsu on Turn 2. Yuriko bypasses normal commander tax and immediately generates card advantage while draining opponents based on the revealed card's mana value. The deck converts this steady card velocity and selection into an ultra-compact win condition centered on Thassa's Oracle paired with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact. An extensive suite of low-cost and free interaction, including Flusterstorm, Flare of Denial, Subtlety, and Snuff Out, protects the combo and disrupts opposing game plans. Secondary win conditions like Laboratory Maniac, Doomsday, and heavy combat damage ensure resilience against targeted disruption, making the deck exceptionally fast, consistent, and lethal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leveler
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
  • 1 Subtlety
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow