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Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Legendary Creature — Human Ninja · {1}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Commander ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand or the command zone tapped and attacking.) Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to that card's mana value.
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What Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow actually does

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What a Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow deck wants

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Best cards for Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield

  1. Changeling Outcast1 mana
  2. Gingerbrute1 mana
  3. Mist-Cloaked Herald1 mana
  4. Slither Blade1 mana
  5. Triton Shorestalker1 mana
  6. Gudul Lurker1 mana
  7. K-9, Mark I1 mana
  8. Tormented Soul1 mana

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Gleaming Overseer3 mana
  3. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  4. Favorable Winds2 mana
  5. Rogue Class2 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Colossus Hammer1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably

  1. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  2. Leechridden Swamp0 mana
  3. Marionette Apprentice2 mana
  4. The Meathook Massacre2 mana
  5. Mirkwood Bats4 mana
  6. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
  7. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  8. Bontu's Monument3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
  2. Silver-Fur Master2 mana
  3. Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion3 mana
  4. Prosperous Thief3 mana
  5. Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow3 mana
  6. Dokuchi Silencer2 mana
  7. Moon-Circuit Hacker2 mana
  8. Nezumi Prowler2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Defile1 mana
  6. Tragic Slip1 mana
  7. Suspend1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

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