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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
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever 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.
- Keyword · commander ninjutsucommander ninjutsu
What a Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow deck needs
Plays as ninja typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
- cheap evasive creatures that connect unblocked (ninjutsu's cost is an unblocked attacker)
- ninja creatures (its text counts them)
- many cheap evasive attackers and team evasion (every creature that connects triggers it)
The Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 11× 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
- 12× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
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
- Changeling Outcast1 mana
- Gingerbrute1 mana
- Mist-Cloaked Herald1 mana
- Slither Blade1 mana
- Triton Shorestalker1 mana
- Gudul Lurker1 mana
- K-9, Mark I1 mana
- Tormented Soul1 mana
Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Leechridden Swamp0 mana
- Marionette Apprentice2 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
- Mirkwood Bats4 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
- Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Silver-Fur Master2 mana
- Yuriko, Hope from the Shadows1 mana
- Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion3 mana
- Prosperous Thief3 mana
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow3 mana
- Dokuchi Silencer2 mana
- Moon-Circuit Hacker2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- Desynchronization4 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Combos with Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Satoru Umezawa + Great Whale790 decks
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Thousand-Faced Shadow + Great Whale772 decks
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Satoru Umezawa + Palinchron487 decks
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Thousand-Faced Shadow + Palinchron475 decks
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