Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Legendary Creature — Human Ninja
Commander ninjutsu (, 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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- Set
- Judge Gift Cards 2019 (J19 #6)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2019-04-10
- Artist
- Yongjae Choi
- EDHREC rank
- #2,547
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 5
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Ingenious Infiltrator
- Thousand-Faced Shadow
- Prosperous Thief
- Changeling Outcast
- Mistblade Shinobi
- Ornithopter
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
- Silver-Fur Master
- Ninja of the Deep Hours
- Moon-Circuit Hacker
- Faerie Seer
- Shadow of Mortality
- Temporal Trespass
- Brainstorm
- Fallen Shinobi
- Slither Blade
- Sakashima's Student
- Mothdust Changeling
- Mist-Syndicate Naga
- Skullsnatcher
- Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
- Lim-Dûl's Vault
- Dig Through Time
- Silent-Blade Oni
- Satoru, the Infiltrator
- Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
- Commandeer
- Triton Shorestalker
- Wingcrafter
- Spectral Sailor
- Gingerbrute
- Higure, the Still Wind
- Misdirection
- Treasure Cruise
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Mystical Tutor
- Smoke Shroud
- Throat Slitter
- Mist-Cloaked Herald
- Satoru Umezawa
- Scroll Rack
- Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
- Dokuchi Silencer
- Tormented Soul
- Ponder
- Snuff Out
- Flare of Denial
- Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- Sea Gate Restoration
- Sea Gate Restoration
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Swamp
- Command Tower
- Changeling Outcast
- Ingenious Infiltrator
- Sol Ring
- Thousand-Faced Shadow
- Prosperous Thief
- Brainstorm
- Ornithopter
- Silver-Fur Master
- Mistblade Shinobi
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
- Ninja of the Deep Hours
- Moon-Circuit Hacker
- Faerie Seer
- Arcane Signet
- Shadow of Mortality
- Temporal Trespass
- Slither Blade
- Fallen Shinobi
- Watery Grave
- Counterspell
- Underground River
- Sakashima's Student
- Mothdust Changeling
- Sunken Hollow
- Mist-Syndicate Naga
- Dig Through Time
- Lim-Dûl's Vault
- Skullsnatcher
- Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
- Drowned Catacomb
- Triton Shorestalker
- Silent-Blade Oni
- Satoru, the Infiltrator
- Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
- Mystical Tutor
- Polluted Delta
- Treasure Cruise
- Ponder
- Commandeer
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Morphic Pool
- Spectral Sailor
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Deadly Rollick
- Gingerbrute
- Misdirection
- Higure, the Still Wind
Format legality
Rulings
- 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
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.
- 2020-11-10
If a card in a player's library has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.