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Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Legendary Creature — Human Ninja MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Commander ninjutsu ({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.

Combos with Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Satoru Umezawa Great Whale Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Thousand-Faced Shadow Great Whale Infinite
    • Infinite combat damage to one opponent
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Thousand-Faced Shadow Palinchron Infinite
    • Infinite combat damage to one opponent
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Satoru Umezawa Palinchron Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dockside Extortionist Sakashima's Student Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite Treasure tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-11-10

    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

    If a card in a player's library has X in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

  • 2020-11-10

    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

    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 are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow in the command zone.

Decks led 2
Games played 1
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Every version of Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

10 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.