Owls are a Ninja’s Best Friend

Commander / EDH Aggro Bird Burn Ninja Ninjutsu Tempo Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir)

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Creature (25)

• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Hypnotic Siren
• 1x Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Prosperous Thief
• 1x Sage Owl
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Spire Owl
• 1x Subtlety
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Thalakos Seer
• 1x Thousand-Faced Shadow
• 1x Vexing Scuttler

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 5x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Commandeer
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Consign / Oblivion
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nexus of Fate
• 1x Standardize
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Teferi's Veil

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kaito Shizuki

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Sideboard

Land (3)

• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool

Artifact (1)

• 1x Maskwood Nexus

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Maybeboard

Land (15)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x High Market
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Creature (13)

• 1x Alora, Merry Thief
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Moon-Circuit Hacker
• 1x Moonblade Shinobi
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Satoru Umezawa
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Viscera Seer

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Cunning Evasion
• 1x Rogue Class
• 1x Sword Coast Sailor

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Alrund's Epiphany
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Artifact (1)

• 1x Dimir Signet

Instant (1)

• 1x Snuff Out

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Yuriko stuff. Less focus on Ninjas, bigger focus on Evasive value Creatures and top-deck manipulation.

Edit; 08/07/22 changes:

• Underground Sea, 3 Fetches, Tainted Isle => Basics, Faerie Conclave, and some other Lands (see below.)
• Added Inkmoth Nexus (because Blinkmoth Nexus is SO good in the deck, may as well have two.)
• Reflecting Pool => Mana Confluence (cuz sometimes Reflecting Pool is doodoo and don't do doodoo.)
• Added Secluded Courtyard (cuz it gud.)
• Added River of Tears (cuz I want to make sequencing even more complicated because I guess I'm a masochist and the only time I play Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is when I want to think.)
• Maskwood Nexus => Prosperous Thief (maybe an unorthodox decision, but 4CMC is rather pricey for my curve, and Prosperous is fixing/ramp and a Ninja.)
• Bitterblossom => Kaito Shizuki (many a game was won with Arcane Adaptation onto an army of Evasive Faeries... but Kaito makes Evasive Pre-Ninja'd tokens, and also doubles as card advantage. Also turns on Legendary Sorceries, but that's not that relevant.)
• Skullsnatcher => Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion (Dauthi Voidwalker already deals with Graveyard shenanigans, so I figured I could finally get rid of this. And swapping a Rat for a Rat is rather poetic, don't you reckon? PS. Nashi is NUTS!!)
• Dimir Signet => Arcane Signet (I forgot to do this before... :P)
• Nether Traitor => Thousand-Faced Shadow (recursion is good, but the pips are not sustainable early-game, and card advantage would equal recursion anyway in the case of Ninja Enablers.. and Haste isn't that useful, especially when paired with the pips. In contrast, Thousand-Faced Shadow is INSANE; arguably the best new Ninja. It's a 1-CMC Ninja Enabler, AND a Ninja, AND has a cool abusable potentially infinite mana outlet ETB, what more can you want out of a Ninja?)
• Throat Slitter => Subtlety (slitting throats wasn't subtle enough, and rather limited in Targets. Subtlety is a potential enabler and tempo, and a Creature Counterspell that pings w/ Yuriko. Also can do cute things w/ Phyrexian Tower)
• Snuff Out => Deadly Rollick (power creep. Also don't have enough Swamps to reasonably enable it anymore either..)
• (Changed Basics to Full Art NEO Kamigawa Ninja Art Lands.)
• Demonic Tutor => Higure, the Still Wind? (Don't want to run Demonic Tutor in too many decks, as it makes games too similar; variance is fun. Vampiric Tutor stays because of the top-deck manipulation aspect.)

Considerations:

• Prismatic Vista vs River of Tears vs Mana Confluence vs Exotic Orchard vs Reflecting Pool (which should I run?)
• Higure, the Still Wind? (can make Yuriko Unblockable, and tutors.)

Archived Changes: Show

6/13/2021 Update:

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Current considerations:

• I'm wondering if I need more Sac Outlets for Yuriko, like Viscera Seer.
• Tainted Isle => High Market/Inkmoth Nexus? Probably Inkmoth.
• Alrund vs Karn's? Probably keep as Karn’s
• Run more Fetches? They're kind of a double-edged sword in this deck though, as they can dismantle topdeck manipulation, but it can also ship away stuff you don't like..
• Mana Confluence/City of Brass? Are pips an issue?
• Arcane Signet should probably replace either Dimir Signet or the Talisman..
• Do I squeeze in Spectal Sailor? It’s a 1-drop "Ninja Enabler" w/ Flash and an infinite Mana sink (if I EVER manage to assemble that combo.. lol.)
• Do I cut the Vexing Scuttler? It's a sac outlet for Yuriko, and can buyback spells from the grave for only 4-Mana, and also gives infinite w/ Time Warp once you have 9+ Mana.. (Not to mention it hits for a ton when flipped off a Yuriko trigger.) My gut instinct says keep it in the deck, and it’s one of my pet cards for the deck.
• Subtlety is a nice free Creature Counterspell that pings w/ Yuriko. (Also can do cute things with Phyrexian Tower.)
• Cavern Harpy is so hard to evaluate.. probably not worth running?
• Deadly Rollick?

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Splash colors	B
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 4 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Kaito Shizuki, Ninja 1/1 U, Plant 0/2 G, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Treasure
Folders	decks to try, Yuriko, Decks I Like (Commander), Sheriff's Decks