commander-yuriko

Commander / EDH Ninja UB (Dimir)

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Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 9x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Watery Grave

High-CMC (6)

• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Connive / Concoct
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Dead Drop
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Wound Reflection

Buying time (3)

• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Guard Gomazoa

Protection (2)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Evasion (14)

• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Deep-Sea Kraken
• 1x Gingerbrute
• 1x Gudul Lurker
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Phantom Ninja
• 1x Slither Blade
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Triton Shorestalker
• 1x Winged Boots

Single-target Removal (7)

• 1x Baral's Expertise
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Consign / Oblivion
• 1x Dregs of Sorrow
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Throat Slitter

Ramp (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Ninja Synergy (4)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways

Commander (1)

Manipulate top of library (10)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Trickery Charm

Building the combo (6)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Muddle the Mixture

Card Draw (4)

• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Boardwipes (2)

• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Rags / Riches

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Key ideas:

• Tagline: Ninjas (top of deck, direct damage)
• Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow gives us card draw and direct damage when we hit opponents with ninjas, including herself. She wants us to have lots of ninjas and a lot of high-cost spells, so when we flip a card for each ninja that hits, we do a lot of damage to our opponents.
• Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is particularly powerful because she has 'commander ninjutsu' which means that we can always cast her for during combat if we have an unblocked creature!
• We've got 15 cards with mana value six or higher. Most of them have an alternate casting cost, so we never pay the full cost. We use split cards (Rags / Riches), delve cards (Temporal Trespass), and cards with suspend (Deep-Sea Kraken).
• We've got 13 ninjas and changelings with reasonable cost and good effects.
• Arcane Adaptation makes our other creatures ninjas because there haven't been very many good ninjas printed, and it's sometimes hard to get them through.
• Various non-ninjas with evasion for ninjutsu targets, like Dimir Infiltrator, Gudul Lurker, Nether Traitor, and Thieving Skydiver.
• Various techniques to give further evasion to our creatures, like Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive, Higure, the Still Wind, Shizo, Death's Storehouse, and Rogue's Passage.
• A large set of cards to manipulate the top of our deck to make it more likely that we'll hit the really big cards with Yuriko's triggers, like Scheming Symmetry, Scroll Rack, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Insidious Dreams, and Halimar Depths.
• Six transmute cards to pull key combo pieces out of deck to enable all of this: tutor and reveal at sorcery speed for mana values 2, 3, 4 and 5. If we don't need that, these cards are pretty useful themselves (see the 'Building the Combo' section).
• Archfiend of Despair and Wound Reflection duplicate damage to make everything hit harder, though these are high-cost and hard to get on the battlefield.
• Exquisite Blood can buy us time by gaining lots of life, and Guard Gomazoa and Fog Bank can chump block for all combat damage to them is prevented (trample still gets through).
• Sea Gate Restoration   is so great - we'll almost always use it as a land, but it hits for seven when we flip it!

Inspired by:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxA7v67l2b0
• https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/my-ninjas-2/?cb=1533590490

Date added	3 years
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.97
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Uncategorized