Trojan Horse by Shichiro

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Dimir Ninjutsu tempo-value deck built around Satoru Umezawa, who grants every creature in your hand the ability to be ninjutsued in for {2}{U}{B}. The core plan is to deploy cheap unblockable creatures (Slither Blade, Invisible Stalker, Ornithopter), attack with them, then swap in high-impact beaters like Inkwell Leviathan, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, or Massacre Wurm for immediate board presence and value. The deck also runs multiple combat-damage-trigger draw engines (Bident of Thassa, Coastal Piracy, Reconnaissance Mission) to refuel while cheating in expensive threats. Win conditions are incremental: halving life totals via Shredder, Shadow Master, Radioactive Man, or Unstoppable Slasher, combined with equipment like Vorpal Sword for a one-shot kill. The deck leans heavily on combat, with little stack interaction but robust redundancy in its unblockable creatures and draw-on-combat effects.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Bad River
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cunning Evasion
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dive Down
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Ghost, Spectral Saboteur
  • 1 Gossip's Talent
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Hand of Emrakul
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Radioactive Man
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soured Springs
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow