Ciphering Ninjas

Modern Casual Control Ninja Ninjutsu Ramp Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir) Unblockable

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Creature (29)

• 4x Changeling Outcast
• 2x Dimir Infiltrator
• 3x Dour Port-Mage
• 4x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 2x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 4x Invisible Stalker
• 4x Moon-Circuit Hacker
• 2x Silver-Fur Master
• 3x Throat Slitter

Land (22)

• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Creeping Tar Pit
• 3x Darkslick Shores
• 2x Dimir Aqueduct
• 2x Drowned Catacomb
• 2x Fetid Pools
• 6x Island
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kaito, Dancing Shadow

Instant (4)

• 4x String of Disappearances

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Hidden Strings

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 3x Mistblade Shinobi

Instant (4)

• 4x Familiar's Ruse

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Cunning Evasion

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A fairly straightforward unblockable creature/ninjutsu deck with some cipher thrown in to take advantage of the unblockable creatures in it.

This deck uses cheap unblockable creatures like Changeling Outcast, Invisible Stalker, and Dimir Infiltrator to get past your opponent's defenses and then uses the ninjutsu ability of a ninja card in your hand to swap out the unblocked creature for the ninja.

The deck has plenty of ways to ensure you always have a ninja to ninjutsu from your hand with spells like String of Disappearances, which works both defensively to save your creatures from removal or just put them back into your hand to ninjutsu again, and offensively to bounce your opponent's problematic creatures; and Dour Port-Mage and Kaito, Dancing Shadow as a repeatable way to keep returning your ninjas back to your hand. Higure, the Still Wind, Ingenious Infiltrator, Kaito, Dancing Shadow, and Moon-Circuit Hacker all also help to keep your hand topped up and help ensure you have a ninja card in hand.

Since cipher works great with all the unblockable creatures in the deck, I added 4 copies of Hidden Strings. Strings gives the deck a form of pseudo mana ramp by allowing you to untap your lands after dealing combat damage so that in your second main phase you have mana available to recast any of your unblockable creatures that you may have Ninjutsu’d back into your hand, or to just keep mana up to respond to your opponents during their turns.

Any comments or suggestions on how to improve the deck are much appreciated! Thanks in advance! :D

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 0 Rares 11 - 4 Uncommons 20 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.58
Tokens	Drone 2/2 C
Folders	Decks I am Making, Potential, Interesting Decks