Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

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Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow: Legendary Creature - Human Ninja, Commander Masters. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{U}{B}
Mana value
3
Type
Legendary Creature - Human Ninja
Colour identity
Blue and black (UB)
Power / toughness
1/3
Rarity
Rare
Set
Commander Masters (CMM)
Released
2023-08-04
Collector number
364
Artist
Yongjae Choi
Commander rank
2,456 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Commander ninjutsu
Commander
Can be your commander

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About Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and black legendary creature from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 364 in that set, with art by Yongjae Choi. It costs {1}{U}{B} (one generic, one blue and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 1/3 creature. Its colour identity is blue and black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It is restricted in Duel Commander. It has been printed in 10 sets, from Treasure Chest (2016) to Final Fantasy: Through the Ages (2025). It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.82 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).

Card text

Commander ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, 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.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.82 (as of 2026-11-03).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderRestricted
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other printings of Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow has been printed in 10 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Final Fantasy: Through the Ages (FCA) #60Rare2025
Commander Masters (CMM) #597Rare2023
Commander Masters (CMM) #690Rare2023
Year of the Tiger 2022 (PL22) #4Mythic2022
Love Your LGS 2021 (PLG21) #C2Rare2021
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #86214Mythic2020
Commander Legends (CMR) #542Mythic2020
The List (PLST) #C18-52Rare2019
Judge Gift Cards 2019 (J19) #6Rare2019
Treasure Chest (PZ2) #70651Rare2018
Commander 2018 (C18) #52Rare2018

Official rulings

Four official rulings apply to Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, newest first.

  • 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 {X} 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.

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