Hiding In The Shadows (Yuriko Control)

Commander / EDH Competitive Control Discard Stax Tribal UB (Dimir)

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Land (34)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 7x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Hex
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Instant (16)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Ultimate Price
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (16)

• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Neurok Invisimancer
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Silent-Blade Oni
• 1x Slither Blade
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Vampire Cutthroat

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Xenograft

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You Can't Run

You Can't hide

And You Can't Block

Strategy

The strategy for this deck is to play and attack with a bunch of ninjas (obviously,) and to reveal cards such as Commit / Memory or Hex and kill the opponent like that. The reason for all the unblockable creatures is to sneak damage through and so you can put in one of your ninja's with Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow on the battlefield and kill them. If we don't get the pieces we need, we have cards like Vampiric Tutor to get them.

Win Cons

So, we want to reveal Commit / Memory, Hex, Dig Through Time or Treasure Cruise and use Scroll Rack to put them back on top.

Suppourt Cards

Brainstorm, Serum Visions, Rhystic Study and Phyrexian Arena are all ways to draw into our win cons. Mystical Tutor and Vampiric Tutor can also get win cons. Hymn to Tourach, Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek set our opponents back and Go for the Throat, Ultimate Price and Doom Blade keep the board in check.

Stax

to lock people out, we have cards such as Winter Orb and Static Orb to make sure they don't ruin our plans.

Why Not More Stax?

I don't really want to make a deck that isn't fun to play against but rather a deck that tries very hard to win whilst making sure nobody hates you + I wanted room for policy cards.

Defense

Crawlspace and Ensnaring Bridge are great for defense and Damnation or Toxic Deluge can wipe the board if needed.

Why I Chose Yuriko

card:Yuriko, Ther Tiger's Shadow is personally one of my favourite legendary creatures because 1. I love ninjitsu because it's such a crazy and awesome mechanic, 2. Ninja's are just insanely cool and finding a way to make a tribal deck with them is a huge achievement + I wanted to used Arcane Adaptation and 3. Yuriko has COMMANDER NINJITSU, not affected by commander tax so she is almost a 2 drop and having a cheap commander is very powerful + I decided to make this deck very powerful and made it to win against most pair-ups (I can't test ALL commander decks but I know this deck does fine against a few.) Thank you for your support and feedback etc... Your contributions are definitely appreciated and if you really like this deck, why not help me out and give it an upvote, I want this deck to gain traction so people realise that not all good commander decks are infinite combo's and The Gitrog Monster :)

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B