commander-yuriko

Commander / EDH UB (Dimir)

scottnonnenberg

Evasion (21)

• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Gudul Lurker
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1x Mothdust Changeling
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Network Disruptor
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Phantom Ninja
• 1x Silver Raven
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Slither Blade
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Thousand-Faced Shadow
• 1x Tormented Soul
• 1x Triton Shorestalker

Single-target Removal (6)

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

Protection (3)

• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Swan Song

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 12x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

High-CMC (7)

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

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

Commander (1)

Manipulate top of library (8)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Trickery Charm

Ninja Synergy (6)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways

Ramp (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

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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 {U}{B} during combat if we have an unblocked creature!
• We have 14 creatures we can cast on turn one which will give us a turn 2 target for Yuriko's ninjutsu ability.
• 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 and Maskwood Nexus each make our other creatures ninjas because there haven't been very many good evasive ninjas printed, so it's hard to get them through for Yuriko's combat damage trigger.
• 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, Shizo, Death's Storehouse, and Winged Boots.
• 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 Imperial Seal, Scroll Rack, Brainstorm, Insidious Dreams, and Halimar Depths. A few of these tutor specific cards to the top of our library, making for very powerful Yuriko triggers.
• Three 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 and 3.
• 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.
• 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	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.65
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Zombie 2/2 B