shinobi no jutsu by Lawtair

Format: Commander

Commander: Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an aggressive tempo-drain deck helmed by Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow. It uses unblockable and evasive one-drops to enable early ninjutsu, then repeatedly attacks with Ninjas to trigger Yuriko's combat-damage ability, revealing high-mana-value cards to damage every opponent at once. The list is deliberately stuffed with expensive payoffs like Shadow of Mortality, Blinkmoth Infusion, Temporal Trespass, and Dig Through Time; Scroll Rack, Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Lim-Dul's Vault, Vampiric Tutor, and Imperial Seal stack those cards before the triggers resolve. Secondary lines include Fallen Shinobi and Silent-Blade Oni stealing opponents' spells, Mist-Syndicate Naga and Thousand-Faced Shadow multiplying Ninja bodies, and the two Kaito planeswalkers providing card advantage and unblockable tokens. The deck is not a combo deck; it wins by drawing cards off every hit while simultaneously draining the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blinkmoth Infusion
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dokuchi Silencer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mist-Syndicate Naga
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Smoke Shroud
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wingcrafter
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow