Frickin Ninjas, Man

Commander / EDH Budget Midrange Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir)

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Creature (27)

• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Faerie Impostor
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Neurok Invisimancer
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Quickling
• 1x Sage Owl
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Silent-Blade Oni
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Slither Blade
• 1x Spire Owl
• 1x Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
• 1x Thalakos Seer
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Triton Shorestalker
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Xenograft

Instant (18)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Consign / Oblivion
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Far / Away
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Perplex

Artifact (12)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 12x Island
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Treasure Cruise

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Cruel Tutor

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Saw Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow and needed a deck immediately. I went on my local store's website and bought all 10 ninjas from their original printings. I'm in love with her playstyle; it's perfectly what I want. This will certainly be a permanent build for me, and will always be fun to play.

A slew of unblockable effects and unblockable/flying creatures who return other creatures to hand allow your ninjas to have free range on the battlefield and repeat their effects. Other combat damage effects feed off of your shenanigans. True to any dimir deck, a slew of instants further fuel your fun (and safety).

This deck does not feature any infinite combos, as the ninjas don't provide any easy/useful combos. The win condition for this deck is found strongly in getting triggers off of Yuriko, who loves the delve, fuse, and aftermath mechanics. Using tutors or Scroll Rack puts these high-cmc cards on top of your library to maximize and repeat trigger value.

Some near-instant-win cards include:

Sun Quan, Lord of Wu

Xenograft

Conspiracy

Arcane Adaptation

Tutoring Temporal Trespass whether you cast it or not

The ability to either turn all your unblockable creatures into ninjas, or make all your ninjas unblockable is something that will win you the game, in most cases.

I hope you enjoy this deck as much as I do, and turn it into your own to suit your playstyle.

Maybeboard is addlist as funds allow

Top Ranked	Achieved #38 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 27 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Stuff, Ideas, Yuriko, Yuriko, EDH Ideas, wtb