Robot Ninja Army

Commander / EDH Aggro Artifact UB (Dimir)

Krowjak

Creature (36)

• 1x Artificer's Assistant
• 1x Brass Gnat
• 1x Darksteel Colossus
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Draco
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Gingerbrute
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Leashling
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mist-Syndicate Naga
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Roterothopter
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Sharding Sphinx
• 1x Signal Pest
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Vault Skirge

Land (32)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 4x Island
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mistvault Bridge
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Baral's Expertise
• 1x Coastal Breach
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Flood of Tears

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Mogg Cannon
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Power Matrix
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x Thran Temporal Gateway

Instant (6)

• 1x Assert Authority
• 1x Blinkmoth Infusion
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Foil
• 1x Submerge

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Conspiracy

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Maybeboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Covert Technician
• 1x Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1x Prosperous Thief
• 1x Satoru Umezawa
• 1x Silver-Fur Master
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Thousand-Faced Shadow

Land (1)

• 1x Academy Ruins

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I was looking at several Yuriko lists, and I realized that most of them had something in common...

They looked like they could function.

Now, we can't have that. Not without jamming several artifacts into the mix, at least. The goal of this desk is the same with any Yuriko list: play out small evasive weenies, strike with ninja, and mass burn people with big spells. But instead of a fully optimized deck, I needed some extra theme. Lo and behold, artifacts can satisfy most of those strategies! Not super effectively, but they can do so on a fairly tight budget.

There are quite a few artifacts at 1 mana that have flying, which can usually lead into a turn 2 Yuriko strike. Keywords like Affinity, Improvise, and Delve help us stock the deck with big CMC spells that can be played for a discount. This being the first draft, I imagine I'll be altering the deck some to include more control/top deck manipulation.

If you're finding that Yuriko is drawing too much hate because she's consistently burning the entire table, maybe consider this build to help tone down the power level.

Also, can we talk about Mogg Cannon for second? You can literally fire Yuriko out of a cannon, through your opponent, and straight into the Command Zone. Then you can fire anyone else out of it next turn to give them evasion while saving them with Ninjutsu. I loved this card before, but it gives some sweet action in this deck. Also, I'm curious as to why aren't more Yuriko lists running Doom Whisperer. Surveil 2 for 2 life is insane, and all but guarantees that your opponents will be hurting more than you.

Updated: June 22nd, 2021

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.62
Tokens	Copy Clone, Myr 1/1 C, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 U