Ninjas by user2532368

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Ninja tempo and combat burn deck led by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. The primary game plan deploys early evasive and utility creatures, then uses commander ninjutsu to swap them for Yuriko and larger Ninjas during combat. When Yuriko and her clan deal combat damage to players, they reveal the top card of the library, put it into hand, and cause each opponent to lose life equal to its mana value. The deck accelerates game-ending life loss by stacking high-mana-value spells like Sea Gate Restoration and Silent-Blade Oni on top of the library with Vampiric Tutor and Imperial Seal. If combat damage stalls, the deck can pivot to an infinite extra-turn combo using Time Sieve and Thopter Assembly or overwhelm the board with Shredder, Shadow Master and Fallen Shinobi.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Azra Smokeshaper
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dauthi Embrace
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Donatello's Technique
  • 1 Elektra, Daughter of the Hand
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
  • 1 Kotose, the Silent Spider
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Moonblade Shinobi
  • 1 Moonsnare Specialist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phantom Ninja
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Shredder, Unrelenting
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Taeko, the Patient Avalanche
  • 1 Temporal Extortion
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Thopter Assembly
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow