Go Ninja Go Ninja Go! by j.embers

Format: Commander

Commander: Dark Leo & Shredder

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck leverages Dark Leo & Shredder alongside a dedicated Ninja and Changeling shell to execute an aggressive combat strategy punctuated by sudden life-halving triggers. The early game focuses on deploying low-cost Ninjas such as Universal Automaton, April O'Neil, Kunoichi Trainee, and Leonardo, Cutting Edge to establish board presence and enable the Sneak mechanic. Once the commander is deployed on turn 2 or 3, attacking Ninjas gain deathtouch, severely discouraging opponent blocks while generating incremental Ninja tokens on combat damage. By turn 4 or 5, rapid token generators like Endless Foot Assault and The Last Ronin's Technique push the Ninja count to five or more, unlocking Dark Leo & Shredder's devastating trigger to halve defending players' life totals upon connection. The deck closes out games around turn 7 using double-strike enablers like Duelist's Heritage and token duplicators like Shredder, Shadow Master to deliver lethal combat damage across all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amorphous Axe
  • 1 April O'Neil, Kunoichi Trainee
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blade of the Oni
  • 1 Blade-Blizzard Kitsune
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
  • 1 Dimensional Exile
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foot Elite
  • 1 Foot Headquarters
  • 1 Foot Ninjas
  • 1 Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 1 Inkrise Infiltrator
  • 1 Irregular Cohort
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaito's Pursuit
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kami of Restless Shadows
  • 1 Karai's Technique
  • 1 Karai, Future of the Foot
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Leonardo's Technique
  • 1 Leonardo, Cutting Edge
  • 1 Leonardo, Sewer Samurai
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Ninja's Blades
  • 1 Ninja's Kunai
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Personify
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Quintessential Katana
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Shredder, Unrelenting
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Last Ronin's Technique
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Turncoat Kunoichi
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtles Forever
  • 1 Twinblade Blessing
  • 1 Twinblade Geist // Twinblade Invocation
  • 1 Umezawa's Jitte
  • 1 Uneasy Alliance
  • 1 Universal Automaton