HEY I've been tinkering with this deck for a while just to play casually. Basically its a tribal ninja deck and has turned out to work beautifully consistent. The card draw possible with Aqueous Form + Ninja of the Deep Hours
is unmatched and gives us the real card advantage need to keep up the high tempo of this deck.
The key cards to this train are Ornithopter plus Judge's Familiar for other blue match ups and removal, two in the sideboard for assurance. Also the addition of Slither Blade replaces Triton Shorestalker.
Higure, the Still Wind tutors ninjas needed at the moment, Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni is the kill shot for this deck most games, most of the time however I will be running Silent-Blade Oni since this is aimed to be a casual playing deck.
Just as important in this deck are the noncreature spells, Hidden Strings is the newest addition to this deck and has put it over the edge. Ciphering this card to a unblockable ninja just gives each creature the opportunity to double its utility. I haven't seen ANY ninja decks running any sort of ciphering cards. Sad really. Hidden strings allows me to play necessary creature cards each turn for ninjas to later replace next turn, but untap used lands so that i may use counter spells to slow down the opponent during their turn. Distortion Strike was made for ninjas, and its low mana cost (and free play) leave mana open for a lot of situations. Im using Mana Leak and Spell Pierce just to be fair to my brothers, I know there are better options.
Finally, Ordeal of Thassa was the card I needed to boost the deck's killing power, while at the same time giving me more of a card advantage. The addition of enchantments allows for a few two for one situations which is sad and it makes me keep a creature on the battlefield rather than bounce them back to my hand, loosing the enchantment. That being said this deck is prone to spot removal, most people however kill ninjas when their real target should be my smaller creatures. Without them the CMC of ninjas is outrageous and are almost unplayable.
Sideboard items are pretty basic, artifact hate, creature hate, Fatal Push is great because this deck is built around triggering revolt.
Tell me what you think! I've had some pretty good success with this deck and its o'so much fun to play, slamming cards down every moment of the game.
