Teenage Mutant Ninjutsu Turtles

Commander / EDH Tempo Tribal UB (Dimir)

Magickas

Creature (33)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Clone
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Etrata, the Silencer
• 1x Ghostly Changeling
• 1x Glen Elendra Liege
• 1x Gudul Lurker
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Moonglove Changeling
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Silent-Blade Oni
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x True-Name Nemesis
• 1x Turtleshell Changeling
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways

Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 8x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Notorious Throng
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Stolen Identity

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Ronin Warclub
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Call to the Kindred
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Wound Reflection

Instant (4)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Last Word
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Sideboard

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Immortal Sun

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Entreat the Dead
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Hands of Binding
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Sleep
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Instant (9)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Nexus of Fate

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Diplomatic Immunity
• 2x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (8)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of War and Peace

Creature (4)

• 1x Nightveil Specter
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind

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I haven't created all too many decks in my time, and this is the first ever commander deck I've made. So any and and all feedback is welcome!

The main win-condition lies in door of destinies and the creatures plus artifacts that give +1/+1 counters.

Archetype of Imagination helps getting your creatures to attack the enemy health, thus enabling the Ninja's different abilities.

There are tutors such as Demonic Tutor and Vampiric tutor to find key-cards that help enable finding the ninjas you need to overpower your enemies. Having Higure attack the enemy will search for the different ninjas for situational use, and with Arcane Adaptation you can search for any creature you need.

Then you can search for cards like Ratcatcher to further get the ninja rats so you have more tempo and have a wider array at your disposal for different situations.

There are different spells and artifacts that enable the creatures to bypass defensive creatures, such as Aqueous form, Mask of Riddles, Whispersilk cloak and so on. The swords give different effects that can be nice, but protection from different colours can also enable the ninjutsu effect to get in strong creatures.

The swords also work well with the unblockable creatures, securing life gain, land untap and bringing creatures back from the grave. Bringing creatures back from the grave is quite important since there are key elements such as Higure that will be sad to lose, but with Sword of Light and Shadow, you can get him back from the grave and place him onto the battlefield again.

Senseis divining top might seem a bit unecessary, but I like it for the combo with counterbalance, which is really nice when there are barely any counterspells in the deck. Senseis divining top also works well with Yuriko to have the higher cost spells be activated by her, thus giving more damage to the enemies.

The rest is dependant on changelings and some of their effects, and if needed there is some mana ramp, tempo spells, and ultimately board wipe like Damnation, or Life's Finale.

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.40
Tokens	Copy Clone, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C
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