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
- Commander Masters (CMM #690)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2023-08-04
- Artist
- Zara H
- EDHREC rank
- #2,484
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, 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
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
- Ornithopter
- Silver-Fur Master
- Ninja of the Deep Hours
- Moon-Circuit Hacker
- Faerie Seer
- Shadow of Mortality
- Temporal Trespass
- Brainstorm
- Fallen Shinobi
- Sakashima's Student
- Mothdust Changeling
- Mist-Syndicate Naga
- Slither Blade
- Skullsnatcher
- Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
- Lim-Dûl's Vault
- Dig Through Time
- Satoru, the Infiltrator
- Silent-Blade Oni
- Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
- Commandeer
- Wingcrafter
- Triton Shorestalker
- Gingerbrute
- Spectral Sailor
- Misdirection
- Higure, the Still Wind
- 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
- Snuff Out
- Ponder
- Flare of Denial
- Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- Universal Automaton
- 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
- Mistblade Shinobi
- Silver-Fur Master
- 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
- Underground River
- Counterspell
- Sakashima's Student
- Mothdust Changeling
- Mist-Syndicate Naga
- Sunken Hollow
- Dig Through Time
- Skullsnatcher
- Lim-Dûl's Vault
- Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
- Silent-Blade Oni
- Triton Shorestalker
- Satoru, the Infiltrator
- Drowned Catacomb
- Mystical Tutor
- Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
- Polluted Delta
- Treasure Cruise
- Ponder
- Commandeer
- Morphic Pool
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Spectral Sailor
- Gingerbrute
- Deadly Rollick
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Misdirection
- Wingcrafter
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.