Two Lands One Ninja

Commander / EDH* UB (Dimir)

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Creature (24)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Brazen Borrower
• 1x Cabal Therapist
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Draco
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Fourth Bridge Prowler
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Mausoleum Wanderer
• 1x Mist-Syndicate Naga
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Mistcaller
• 1x Mothdust Changeling
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Spellstutter Sprite
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Wingcrafter

Artifact (11)

• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox DiamondGC
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Winter Orb

Land (30)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Imperial SealGC
• 1x Massacre
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Temporal Trespass

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Cunning Evasion
• 1x Dystopia
• 1x Mystic Remora

Commander (1)

Instant (23)

• 1x Abjure
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Submerge
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Tale's End

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Ancestral Knowledge
• 1x Arcane Adaptation

Creature (4)

• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Thassa's OracleGC

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Land (3)

• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Phyrexian Tower

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Time Warp

Instant (1)

• 1x Nexus of Fate *list*

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Can Damage be a win con?

• Step 1 .. yuriko
• Step 2 .. card advantage
• Step 3 .. life loss
• Step 4 .. don't let anybody else win O_O

Deck Stuff

Turn two Yuriko

Getting off to a good start will often look like a turn 1 unblockable into a turn 2 yuriko.

Turn 1 Enablers:

• Changeling Outcast
• Cabal Therapist
• Mausoleum Wanderer
• Merfolk Spy
• Mist-Cloaked Herald
• Mothdust Changeling
• Siren Stormtamer
• Slither Blade
• Triton Shorestalker
• Wingcrafter

These 11 cards will Enable Yuriko on turn two with a 62% reliability and an 84% reliability if you take one mulligan (based on a hypergeometric distribution analysis). You'll notice that most of these are blue. This deck is island heavy and we run force of will so this is deliberate decision for our turn 1 plays. After the turn 2 yuriko trigger, having a method to use up one of our extra cards (currently 8 in hand) has provided useful. Our options for this:

• Force of Will
• Submerge
• Massacre
• Snuff Out
• Mox Diamond
• Chrome Mox
• Mox Amber
• Mana Crypt
• Gemstone Caverns
• Mental Misstep

If we don't get to use up all of our cards, discarding a 1-drop doesn't feel bad.

Get Those Triggers

Section covers our options for pushing Yuriko triggers through. Please also realize that removing your opponents' creatures (snuff out, submerge, dismember, commit, cyclonic rift, jitte) will help Yuriko connect.

• Cover of Darkness
• Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• Wingcrafter
• Mothdust Changeling
• Arcane Adaptation

Burn in UB

Section covers our burn spells via ninja triggers. These slots are carefully chosen. Aside from draco, the other fatties have alternate casting costs. Multiple ninja triggers + Insidious Dreams or Scroll Rack can easily deal 25+ damage in a turn. Most players will have taken incidental damage by this point. This deck definitely preys on our necropotence and ad nauseam friends.

• 8cmc - Dig Through Time
• 10cmc - Commit
• 11cmc - Temporal Trespass
• 16cmc - Draco

Testing and Sideboard Considerations:

• Oboro Breezecaller plus Mystic Sanctuary plus Time Warp

• Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact

• Nexus lands. Very nice to have an attacker after a board wipe, however the deck is very color hungry.

• Draco. At first I didn't think I wanted this in lieu of an actually usable cards. What I realized is that Draco + top of deck tutors or Scroll Rack is a combo. Draco is a 16 damage burn spell.

• Doomsday package lives in the maybe-board. It provides a concrete win condition. I've definitely enjoyed playing around with nexus loops. If nexus is the only card in our library and we have an unblockable in play, that's a win.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 1 Mythic Rares 49 - 11 Rares 14 - 2 Uncommons 16 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, On an Adventure
Folders	Primers, Interesting Things, Decks To Reference, Inspiration, cmndr, Commander Decks, Yuriko