Turtles & Ninjas by user5819035

Format: Commander

Commander: Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic leads a BUG Ninja tempo deck built around repeated ninjutsu activations. Although the face commander supplies tap/untap control, the deck's real engine is Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow hiding in the 99: every Ninja that connects reveals a card, grows your hand, and makes all opponents lose life. Satoru Umezawa and cheap evasive creatures fuel the engine, while high-mana Ninjas and utility Turtles provide card advantage and resilience. There is no combo finish; victory comes from accumulating Yuriko drains and evasive combat damage, with Archelos smoothing mana and acting as a flexible stax piece when needed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Ambling Stormshell
  • 1 Angler Turtle
  • 1 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
  • 1 Artful Takedown
  • 1 Bear Trap
  • 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
  • 1 Calcite Snapper
  • 1 Cathartic Parting
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Colossal Skyturtle
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crushing Canopy
  • 1 Diabolic Edict
  • 1 Dokuchi Shadow-Walker
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Dragon Turtle
  • 1 Equilibrium
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Giant Growth
  • 1 Gudul Lurker
  • 1 Haze of Pollen
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 1 Inkrise Infiltrator
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Kappa Tech-Wrecker
  • 1 Lakeside Shack
  • 1 Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro
  • 1 Lush Oasis
  • 1 Master's Rebuke
  • 1 Meandering Towershell
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Murky Sewer
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nashi, Moon's Legacy
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ninja of the New Moon
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Quick-Draw Katana
  • 1 Restless Cottage
  • 1 Return to Action
  • 1 Riptide Turtle
  • 1 Satoru Umezawa
  • 1 Silent Departure
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Smoke Bomb
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Subterranean Cavern
  • 1 Sunken Hope
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Twisted Embrace
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow