B4 Satoru by atablewithpants

Format: Commander

Commander: Satoru Umezawa

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

The deck uses Satoru Umezawa to give every creature card in hand a shared ninjutsu cost and to filter the top three cards once each turn when ninjutsu is activated. Small evasive creatures such as Slither Blade, Triton Shorestalker, Ornithopter, and Faerie Seer support that plan, while cards such as Baleful Strix, Moon-Circuit Hacker, and Archon of Cruelty provide value. Its clearest engine is Deadeye Navigator paired with Palinchron, which can generate infinite mana from seven suitable lands. The supported table kill then requires Vela the Night-Clad, Hullbreaker Horror, and Ornithopter. Because the line needs expensive creatures, multiple specific roles, and a land-heavy mana base, it is a late-game combo deck rather than a competitive-speed combo deck. Its counterspells offer useful protection, but permanent removal and proactive denial are limited.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Dusk Mangler
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Everglades
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Great Whale
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Harrier Strix
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Long-Term Plans
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lotus Vale
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Palinchron
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Saprazzan Legate
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scorched Ruins
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Soldevi Excavations
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Stature, Size Shifter
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surveyor's Scope
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Thalakos Seer
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vela the Night-Clad
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave