Card
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Mana cost {1}{U}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Ninja 1/3
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 5 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · C18 · #52
- Cheapest printing
- €2.46
- EDHREC salt
- 2.15
- Color identity
- Black, Blue
- Keywords
- Commander ninjutsu
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
5 known combos.
- Satoru Umezawa + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Great Whale
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite mana lands you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook - Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Thousand-Faced Shadow + Great Whale
Produces: Infinite combat damage to one opponent, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Satoru Umezawa + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Palinchron
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite mana lands you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Activating Yuriko's commander ninjutsu ability isn't the same as casting Yuriko as a spell. You won't have to pay the commander tax to activate that ability, and activating that ability won't increase the commander tax to pay later. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Although the ninjutsu ability has the creature enter the battlefield attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for the purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example). - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Commander ninjutsu is a variant of ninjutsu that can be activated from the command zone as well as from your hand. Just as with regular ninjutsu, the Ninja enters attacking the player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast