First printed in Commander 2018 (2018)
All 12 prints
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Final Fantasy: Through the Ages (FCA) #60, 2025
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Commander Masters (CMM) #364, 2023
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Commander Masters (CMM) #597, 2023
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Commander Masters (CMM) #690, 2023
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Year of the Tiger 2022 (PL22) #4, 2022
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Love Your LGS 2021 (PLG21) #C2, 2021
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Magic Online Promos (PRM) #86214, 2020 (digital)
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Commander Legends (CMR) #542, 2020
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The List (PLST) #C18-52, 2019
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Judge Gift Cards 2019 (J19) #6, 2019
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Treasure Chest (PZ2) #70651, 2018 (digital)
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Commander 2018 (C18) #52, 2018
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.
1/3
- Illustrated by
- Yongjae Choi
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl
- Restricted in
- Duel Commander, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (4)
- 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.
- If a card in a player's library has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. - 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).
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy (FIN), Premier Draft | 53.1% | -2.7 | +3.3 | 946 |
- 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
5 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Great Whale + Satoru Umezawa + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
- Infinite combat damage to one opponent, Infinite creature tokens…: Great Whale + Thousand-Faced Shadow + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Palinchron + Satoru Umezawa + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
- Infinite combat damage to one opponent, Infinite creature tokens…: Palinchron + Thousand-Faced Shadow + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Dockside Extortionist + Sakashima's Student + Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
