Yuriko Reanimator

Commander / EDH* Reanimator Tempo UB (Dimir)

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Creature (30)

• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Hypnotic Siren
• 1x Hypnotic Sprite
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Nevermaker
• 1x Order of Midnight
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Owl Familiar
• 1x Patron of the Vein
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Silumgar Sorcerer
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Spire Owl
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Thalakos Seer
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Cunning Evasion
• 1x Smoke Shroud

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x High Market
• 8x Island
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Instant (12)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Negate
• 1x Silence the Believers
• 1x Telling Time

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Devastation Tide

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Creature (49)

• 1x AEthersnipe
• 1x Ancient Stone Idol
• 1x Banshee of the Dread Choir
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Broodbirth Viper
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Conundrum Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Tracker
• 1x Deepfathom Skulker
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Gilt-Leaf Winnower
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Kathari Remnant
• 1x Keeper of Keys
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Mindshrieker
• 1x Mist Raven
• 1x Mothdust Changeling
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Neurok Invisimancer
• 1x Ophidian
• 1x Owl Familiar
• 1x Patron of the Vein
• 1x Phantom Ninja
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Sage Owl
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Shipwreck Singer
• 1x Siren Lookout
• 1x Soulsworn Spirit
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Spire Owl
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Trusted Advisor
• 1x Vampire Charmseeker
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Warkite Marauder

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Discovery / Dispersal
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Rags / Riches

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Necromancy

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Instant (2)

• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Mystical Tutor

Artifact (2)

• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Portal of Sanctuary

Land (1)

• 1x Temple of Deceit

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Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow deck using large creatures to trigger large life loss, and then discarding and reanimating them bois from the yard. A small of host of ninja and small, hard to block creatures will help along the way.

The most premium creatures for the deck, and what I am currently searching far and wide for, are creatures with evasion and an etb, that I can benefit from playing them again later, like Baleful Strix. Also of note are creatures that I can cheat on their apparent CMC in some way, like Avatar of Woe...perhaps I'll run some delve cards. Ninjas are the obvious poster boy, but I need to maintain a balance and enable them effectively.

Balance will be a bit difficult for this deck. I need a critical mass of about 6 categories of cards, in approximate order of importance:

1. hard to block creatures, preferably at the lower end of the curve
2. high CMC spells, likely reanimator targets
3. generic answers(kills spells, bounce, maybe counter spells, etc)
4. reanimate spells
5. top deck manipulation
6. ninjas

Anything that pulls double or triple duty (Shriekmaw comes to mind as a hard to clock answer that also is a reasonable reanimate target) is at a premium. As an aside, sac outlets are nice to have if I can find ones that overlap with the above categories.

Sakashima's Student is too damn niche and expensive, so it gets the axe unless I can acquire one some other way. Archfiend of Despair is probably a desirable reanimate target too but...spensive. Maybe Torrential Gearhulk

I uh, just cut Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots? It doesn't seem like the most relevant effect.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Decks I Own