Ninjutsu by user7207468

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Dimir Ninja deck helmed by Satoru Umezawa, built around the commander's ability to grant any creature in your hand the ninjutsu keyword, enabling explosive tempo swings by cheating massive threats like Emrakul, the Promised End into play early. The deck's primary game plan is to deploy a small evasive creature (often a low-cost Ninja with flying or unblockable), then repeatedly ninjutsu in larger creatures for combat damage triggers that generate card advantage, hand disruption, and removal. While the deck can win through incremental Ninja combat damage over several turns, its most direct path to victory is deploying a high-mana threat like Emrakul and beating down opponents. It also includes a secondary alternate win condition in Triskaidekaphile and a heavy-value engine via One with the Multiverse.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Auditore Ambush
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Covert Technician
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dokuchi Shadow-Walker
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Donatello, Rad Scientist
  • 1 Dream Beavers
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Inkrise Infiltrator
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kotose, the Silent Spider
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mukotai Ambusher
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Paths of the Dead
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Psychic Pickpocket
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shu Jing Meteorite
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Transfer
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Taeko, the Patient Avalanche
  • 1 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 The Shadow Lord
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtle Van
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Waterfront District
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment