Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Commander ninjutsu(
How it works : Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· 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).
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a card in a player's library has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Satoru Umezawa + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Great Whale
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite mana lands you control can produceInfinite untap of lands you control
- 1Declare Yuriko as an attacker.
- 2When it isn't blocked, activate up to seven lands you control by tapping them, adding at least
. - 3Activate Great Whale's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Yuriko from the battlefield to your hand, putting Great Whale onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 4When Great Whale enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping up to seven lands.
- 5Activate Yuriko's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Great Whale from the battlefield to your hand, putting Yuriko onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
- 7If you control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least
, this combo nets infinite mana.
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#2
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Thousand-Faced Shadow + Great Whale
Infinite combat damage to one opponentInfinite creature tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Declare Great Whale and Yuriko as attackers.
- 2When they aren't blocked, activate up to seven lands you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 3Activate Thousand-Faced Shadow's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Yuriko from the battlefield to your hand, putting Thousand-Faced Shadow onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 4When Thousand-Faced Shadow enters the battlefield, it triggers, creating a token copy of Great Whale that is tapped and attacking.
- 5When the Great Whale token enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping up to seven lands.
- 6Activate Yuriko's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Thousand-Faced Shadow from the battlefield to your hand, putting Yuriko onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 7Repeat from step 2.
- 8Deal combat damage using the Great Whale tokens, dealing infinite combat damage to the defending opponent.
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#3
Satoru Umezawa + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Palinchron
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite mana lands you control can produceInfinite untap of lands you control
- 1Declare Yuriko as an attacker.
- 2When it isn't blocked, activate up to seven lands you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 3Activate Palinchron's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Yuriko from the battlefield to your hand, putting Palinchron onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 4When Palinchron enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping up to seven lands.
- 5Activate Yuriko's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Palinchron from the battlefield to your hand, putting Yuriko onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
- 7If you control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least , this combo nets infinite mana.
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#4
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow + Thousand-Faced Shadow + Palinchron
Infinite combat damage to one opponentInfinite creature tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Declare Palinchron and Yuriko as attackers.
- 2When they aren't blocked, activate up to seven lands you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 3Activate Thousand-Faced Shadow's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Yuriko from the battlefield to your hand, putting Thousand-Faced Shadow onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 4When Thousand-Faced Shadow enters the battlefield, it triggers, creating a token copy of Palinchron that is tapped and attacking.
- 5When the Palinchron token enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping up to seven lands.
- 6Activate Yuriko's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Thousand-Faced Shadow from the battlefield to your hand, putting Yuriko onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.
- 7Repeat from step 2.
- 8Deal combat damage using the Palinchron tokens, dealing infinite combat damage to the defending opponent.
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#5
Dockside Extortionist + Sakashima's Student + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite artifact sacrifice triggersInfinite artifact tokens
- 1Declare Yuriko as an attacker, attacking an opponent unable to block it.
- 2Activate Sakashima's Student's ninjutsu ability by paying
and returning Yuriko to your hand, putting Sakashima's Student from your hand onto the battlefield as a copy of Dockside Extortionist. - 3Sakashima's Student enters the battlefield, creating at least five Treasure tokens.
- 4Activate at least four Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding at least .
- 5Activate Yuriko's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Sakashim'a Student to your hand, putting Yuriko from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
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Legal formats
historictimelessgladiatorlegacyvintagecommanderoathbreakerbrawltlr
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