EDH | Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow Deck Building Guide

Yuriko, the Tiger’s Shadow is one of most popular commanders of all time, currently at the time of writing this, ranking as the number #4 most popular commander over the past 2 years over on EDHREC, and with good reason. There are a lot of different things going on with this commander. It’s easily the best option available as a ninja tribal commander, and ninja’s are a fairly popular tribe because their signature mechanic, ninjutsu, is incredibly well designed and allows for some really fun and interesting deck building and gameplay. And then there’s the triggered ability where whenever a ninja connects, you essentially draw a card and burn the table equal to the mana value of that card, which incentivizes you to build around having a lot of cards with a high mana value, as well as being able to manipulate the top of your deck.
Yuriko is also one of the few commanders, that actually get to mostly ignore the otherwise really important safety measure of the format, the commander tax. The commander tax only applies to the casting cost of your commander, and since ninjutsu technically isn’t a casting cost, but an activated ability, the commander tax isn’t applied to the ninjutsu cost. And on top of that, putting Yuriko in play using the ninjutsu ability, won’t even add any commander tax since you’re not casting your commander. So as long as you have ways of enabling ninjutsu, you get to play an extremely mana efficient game, while also accumulating a lot of value as well as putting a lot of pressure on your opponents life totals in the process, which is a pretty scary cocktail.

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