Yuriko: Tiger's Shadows Die Twice

Commander / EDH Aggro UB (Dimir)

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Creature (28)

• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Inkfathom Witch
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Kheru Mind-Eater
• 1x Latch Seeker
• 1x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Quickling
• 1x Sage Owl
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Silent-Blade Oni
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Slither Blade
• 1x Tandem Lookout
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive *f-pre*
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Tormented Soul
• 1x Triton Shorestalker
• 1x Walker of Secret Ways

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Entreat the Dead
• 1x Time Stretch

Artifact (20)

• 1x Bident of Thassa *f-pre*
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (7)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Void Shatter

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 12x Island
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Larceny

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Land (1)

• 1x Morphic Pool

Artifact (1)

• 1x Helm of the Host

Instant (1)

• 1x Nexus of Fate *list*

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Use small, unblockable creatures to get through defenses to use cards with ninjutsu. Bounce or protect the ninjas, and then make the rest of the unblockable creatures ninjas to stack the effects of Yuriko. Utilize top deck manipulation to bring high mana cost cards (or not lands) to the top to hurt my opponents when ninjas deals damage. A potential side focus could be to play different equipment cards that attach to creatures entering the battlefield to buff up ninjas upon using ninjutsu.

The main difficulty of this deck currently is the balance. If you don't get a one drop or two drop in your starting hand, you kind of stall out for a bit, and end up having to hard cast Yuriko. It's difficult to balance the mana usage also if you don't have a way to make your ninjas unblockable without bouncing them back to your hand. Cover of Darkness is great in this regard, but that is a single enchantment. Tetsuko works for some ninjas but not all. Mask of Riddles can cover some of the other ninjas, but again, it takes a lot of concentration to manage your limited resources to get the results the deck aims for. I love this deck but it definitely needs work, so suggestions are definitely welcome.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Squid 1/1 U