Yuriko Brew

Commander / EDH Budget Burn Multiplayer Tribal UB (Dimir)

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Creature (31)

• 1x Azra Smokeshaper
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Cavalier of Gales *f-pre*
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Gingerbrute
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Gudul Lurker
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Hypnotic Siren
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Mist-Syndicate Naga
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Moonblade Shinobi
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Phantom Ninja
• 1x Shadowmage Infiltrator
• 1x Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
• 1x Sidisi's Faithful
• 1x Silent-Blade Oni
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Throatseeker
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Land (30)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Island
• 3x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 4x Island
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit

Instant (10)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Negate
• 1x Telling Time

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Part the Waterveil
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 1x Rags / Riches
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Cunning Evasion
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Precognition Field
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Smoke Shroud
• 1x Writ of Passage
• 1x Xenograft

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Maybeboard

Creature (11)

• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Ghastlord of Fugue
• 1x Latch Seeker
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Ninja of the New Moon
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Overwhelmed Apprentice
• 1x Pondering Mage
• 1x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Spark Double

Land (1)

• 1x Isolated Watchtower

Instant (10)

• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Far / Away
• 1x Leadership Vacuum
• 1x Miscast
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Prohibit
• 1x Select for Inspection
• 1x Sinister Sabotage
• 1x Unsummon

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Soulquake
• 1x Whispering Madness

Artifact (5)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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My current Yuriko list. Mostly cobbled together from whatever singles I can afford that I've seen run in actually competitive lists.

Thoughts: need to play the deck more and get better at figuring out winning lines; just tutoring the highest cmc card to the top of my library isn't always the correct play. (in one case, one opponent was on 7 life and I decided use Scheming Symmetry to tutor for Rags / Riches, took him out and then lost on the following turn. I should've tutored for Behold the Beyond instead, and then cast that on the next turn and taken out the rest of the table)

Ideal power level: 8~9. Would like it to be reasonably powerful (although it'll always have a ceiling due to budget constraints & I'm not experienced enough with EDH/Magic to know what that ceiling is currently) but still be fun to play against. I suspect the number of (topdeck) tutors would massively impact that.

Goal/wincon: dealing burn damage to the table through Yuriko flips. currently when goldfishing, the deck consistently wins on turn 6, either through being able to manipulate my topdecks (although this is still more limited than I'd like), or by just getting so many Yuriko triggers that it doesn't matter if half my flips are land.

Strategy: either getting so many ninja out that I get enough flips that it doesnt matter if they're all guaranteed high cmc cards or not (mainly through Arcane Adaptation, Xenograft, and things like Mist-Syndicate Naga), and/or being able to stack the top of my library with cards like Cavalier of Gales, Brainstorm, Dream Cache.

Current meta

Jhoira (DOM) artefacts - Elsha Top - Mardu vampire tribal/lifegain.

Other decks played: Ghired populate - Tuvasa enchantments - Estrid enchantments.

Other decks I know people have: C19 Rakdos precon - Sliver tribal / C18 Jund & Esper precons / C17 Grixis & Ur-Dragon precons.

Current winning lines

• Behold the Beyond for Dream Cache or Brainstorm + any 2 high cmc cards (normally Rags / Riches, The Cauldron of Eternity, etc), then Brainstorm/Dream Cache them to the top for a maximum of 23 damage to each player off 2 flips. (although this is fairly unrealistic and would have to be done over 2 turns as getting the mana for it isn't the most viable)

Current priorities

• cheap turns: Temporal Trespass
• topdeck manipulation: Sensei's Divining Top, Ransack, Ancestral Knowledge, Bolas's Citadel, Contingency Plan, Diabolic Vision, Dimir Charm, Naga Oracle, Petals of Insight, Spy Network, Taigam's Scheming, Trickery Charm,
• hand (or tutoring) -> top of library effects: Insidious Dreams, Riverwise Augur, Mystical Tutor, Lim-Dul's Vault, Doomsday, Leashling, Agonizing Memories, Conch Horn, Conduit of Ruin, Cruel Tutor, Enter the Infinite, Haunted Crossroads, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Library of Leng, Liliana Vess, Vampiric Tutor, Personal Tutor, Sadistic Augermage, Scroll Rack, Survivor of the Unseen, Tainted Specter, Volrath's Dungeon

Current issues to be solved

• needs to be much faster; keep getting focused after 1-2 triggers - may have partially solved this; deck now consistently wins on turn 6 when goldfishing
• struggling to get creatures to stick for long enough to attack with them - I have a lot of interaction; need to make better decisions on how to use it
• need more ways to get cards on top of my library - added Cavalier of Gales; still need more ways of doing this however
• not super sure about Future Sight and Precognition Field; when goldfishing, if I get to cast a 5cmc spell, it's usually Xenograft and will win me the game on the spot if I have enough ninjas out. in real games, the deck fizzles if we get to 5-6 mana and I don't have enough creatures on the field for flip triggers. maybe swap them out for more interaction or ninjas?

Inspirations/references

• Yuriko Turn and Burn
• Moving Shadows
• Yuriko Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
• Yuriko Reanimator

Scryfall searches

(for my own reference so I don't have to redo my searches)

Past thoughts

n/a

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.54
Tokens	Copy Clone, Illusion 1/1 U w/ Flying, Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	1 Brews