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Satoru Umezawa

First printed in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (2022)

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  • Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2283, 2025
  • Magic Online Promos (PRM) #98079, 2022 (digital)
  • Magic Online Promos (PRM) #98081, 2022 (digital)
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #234, 2022
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #352, 2022
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #426, 2022
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #493, 2022
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #507, 2022
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos (PNEO) #234p, 2022
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos (PNEO) #234s, 2022

Satoru Umezawa

Legendary Creature — Human Ninja

Whenever you activate a ninjutsu ability, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Each creature card in your hand has ninjutsu 2 genericBlueBlack.

2/4

Illustrated by
Anna Pavleeva

Legality

Legal in
Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in
Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl

Rulings (9)
  • The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.
  • Although the Ninja is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).
  • If a creature in combat has first strike or double strike, you can activate the ninjutsu ability during the first-strike combat damage step. The Ninja will deal combat damage during the regular combat damage step, even if it has first strike.
  • The creature with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu; in other cases, when a creature is put onto the battlefield attacking, that creature's controller chooses which player or planeswalker it's attacking.
  • Once you activate a ninjutsu ability, no player can affect that ability by removing Satoru Umezawa from the battlefield. Even if Satoru leaves the battlefield before it resolves, you'll still be able to put the creature onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.
  • The ninjutsu ability can be activated during the declare blockers step, combat damage step, or end of combat step. In most cases (see below), if you wait until the combatdamage step or end of combat step, it will be after combat damage has been dealt, so the Ninja won't deal combat damage.
  • As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. The Ninja card stays revealed and isn't put onto the battlefield until the ability resolves. If it leaves your hand before then, it won't enter the battlefield at all.
  • Puff of smoke not included.
  • Satoru Umezawa's triggered ability triggers whenever you activate a ninjustsu ability, and it will resolve before that ability resolves. The card with ninjustsu will still be in your hand while resolving the ability and must remain revealed until the ninjutsu ability resolves or is otherwise removed from the stack.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO), Premier Draft 58.1% +2.5 +4.1 7988
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO), Sealed 54.7% +0.4 +4.0 961
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Combos

61 combos, the most popular first:

See all 61 on Commander Spellbook

Commander In 1 of 6520 decks (0.0%), most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Share of decks
0.0%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.1% 2026-08-31: 0.1% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.1% 2026-09-21: 0.0% 2026-09-28: 0.0% 2026-10-05: 0.1% 2026-10-12: 0.0% 2026-10-19: 0.0% 2026-10-26: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
1
1 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 0.6% 3%

Played together with

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Best win rate

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