HOW GOOD IS YURIKO IN cEDH? - Play to Win Deck Tech

This week we're taking a look at Yuriko in cEDH!
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[@beeran9086]

Also would love to add that Yuriko gets around Drannith Magistrate since you're not casting Yuriko from the command zone, you're activating her ability from the command zone!

[@mobmaniac]

My friend called it, but I was just excited for another deck tech. Slowly becoming my favorite series on the channel

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Love to hear it

[@bulbasaurappreciator]

Your deck techs are actually so good, the way you lay everything out into categories makes the deck way easier to understand for a novice cedh player. Thanks kings.

[@kylewyatt5832]

Just wanted to add the fact that your doomsday pile can also go off as long as you haven't made your land drop for turn. When you cast gush return an Island that comes into play untapped and boom, now you have the other blue mana you need in addition to Lotus Petal to cast Thoracle.

[@SorryImissedThat]

Your Deck techs stand out. I really appreciate the test hands! Keep it up

[@titak7755]

I love it! I have been playing around with Yuriko lately and this video was great insight for upgrading her. Thanks for the deck tech!

[@MarcellusWalrus4]

Easily my favorite edh/cedh channel. I love your energy guys. Especially these deck techs! Keep it up please :D it's amazing getting more insight into your personal decks that we see you play often. Up next Jeska Ishai Jeskai? Snooze ya looze?

[@Flip4Crypt]

Fuuuck yeah! I love your guys deck techs so much! I sent my friend your video of that Yuriko, because one of his main decks is Yuriko. And it was his first time watching you guys, he loved it Thanks for all the videos!

[@rikytie7011]

Yuriko is actually perfect for new players if they run the burn budget version because it's simple to play. Dylan's deck is completely different from the burn one and it needs a lot of experience, i love this list btw.

[@caputofa]

Nice video, the whole hand analysis to keep it or not and why is awesome. Loved it. Make more videos like this!!

[@SavageD-qi2ti]

Always love watching you guys play Yuriko. I've been really close to the stock list, but I've been wanting to try closer to your list. Good stuff, keep up the great work guys!

[@d2k1321]

Awesome deck tech. I've just started playing a Yuriko deck and it definitely got me ideas to try. Thanks guys for the content. You guys rock! 🙌

[@matthewtruckenmiller461]

It’s great that you guys do this now. I am new to cEDH, yet I think I could pick up this deck and use it reasonably well.

[@kellyperry5009]

Awesome job, you guys have mastered the deck tech video 👏👏👏

[@ryandowns6233]

i LOVE going over the mulliganing! i see so many deck techs and none of that seem to do that, while it's a huge part of the game, and the hardest part of learning a new deck.

[@kamikazze6768]

As a Yuriko simp, this episode went straight to my ❤️

[@daringplays3966]

By far my favorite deck to play, thanks for the deck tech I have some nice changes I didn’t think about that I need to make now ^_^

[@shrekerok2711]

The same day I was searching for a Yuriko deck tech this shows up in my recommendations. Nice!

[@alexhoude]

Love seeing uruiko in cedh. I am typically a casual player but have been getting more and more into cedh and it is really cool to see some powerful casual commanders played in cedh

[@starman5528]

I run this exact deck card for card. Super strong and dumpsters on a lot of cedh pods I play in. I definitely think she is higher power than most cedh teir lists say. Super fun to play and has yet to get old. "yurriko trigger... thassa's oracle... trigger 2.... demonic consultation.... ... .. everyone take three."

[@JustforKikX]

Love Yuriko. I run a budget cEDH build that can still do work. When Satoru was spoiled, people thought he'd dethrone her.....not a chance. I actually run her in my Satoru deck, but she's still queen. She does draw (pun intended) a lot of hate though.

[@Fausto_4841]

satoru has no room in a tuned yuriko deck, i'm getting tired of people thinking i've got satoru and a blightsteel in my yuriko deck.. it runs on such a low curve that i never have 4 mana to spare, and all of the relevant creatures can already ninjutsu for less than 4 anyways.

[@goodnamesweretakenkt]

Love your content guys! Keep it up! 🤙🏽

[@LemorasCards]

The best boys in the biz drop another banger. Always glad to see new videos from you guys, best part of my day.

[@ConnorPlaysTCG]

This is by far the best deck techs I’ve ever watched. I would love to see a omnath blue pod or omnath food chain deck.

[@christopherpho9424]

Yuriko was my first deck in high power/cEDH, pretty much hit the nail on the head. Fun to pilot because of all the card advantage and cheating taxes. Tough to pilot because I didn’t know the cEDH meta.

[@tonydola3232]

This was incredibly helpful thank you for this. After the release on neon dynasty I had about 12 per so cards to swap into my yuriko deck. I play mostly casual and my deck was not far off of this one. I did want to add in a lot of the fun aweosme ninjas. But more so then that your this how to play the deck part of this video really helped. Hands to keep hands to play this was great. Aweosme deck and thanks I really got a lot out of this video

[@aselbst]

Loving these deck techs. So well explained and the test hands are great too! (I'd love a couple more, even.) Each video makes me want to get into cEDH to build the deck. Do you still play Two Tymnas? Would love to see the tech on that one!

[@playalot86]

Loving those full art Japanese Kamigawa lands! ❤️

[@ryanblake7114]

would love to see you guys do one of these with Tyler's favorite deck Kinnan. it seems like a real fun brew and i want to see how close my own kinnan deck is to being cedh lol

[@Johnny-bg2xx]

Love the deck tech videos.

[@obcuretwin5708]

My yuriko deck doesn't run any of the "I win" combos, just pure deck manipulation, control and damage off flipping the top card and she wins pretty consistently. She's just super strong. 1 card I would say just usually wins me the game, is cursed totem. Shuts down so many decks with no negative downfall.

[@Fausto_4841]

nice. i'm not a fan of "i win" combos/cards. this game is already like two 5 year olds playing a game where they keep changing the rules, cards that say you lose, i win, i cant lose are little "on the nose"

[@zane98beats]

Doesn't Cursed Totem just literally counter ninjutsu? Since It is an ability as well? I am new to the game so bare with me :--)

[@jacksonmitchell6317]

@@zane98beats it only affects cards on the field ninjutsu is outside of cursed totems affected area.

[@iortega]

Do you have your deck en moxfield?

[@frankdetank9126]

Thanks for the Sunday video. Now do a best enchantress in cEDH video!

[@gr0gdorsg]

I just got suggested this video, y’all should bring back this style of deck introduction again. I like the in depth explanations to decks I don’t get to play

[@thevp_ssb.]

Oh Yuriko. I have one in my casual friends EDH group, and it is fast and fun. Also playing zero counterspells, and instead, just a bunch of ninjas, early drop creatures, and big cmc flips off Yuriko in an extra turns package and a Satoru fun ninjustu package.

[@xirleamax]

Great video!! Love u guy's ...but please ...please upload this and the other deck tech's to spotify

[@jadigennaro]

I like that you mentioned a hand was "fun enough to keep." Sometimes that's the kicker. I've had quite a few wins with Yuriko that allowed for tutoring up consultation/thoracle with protection to win on turn 2, but there's this cool angle Yuriko provides that its just so dang fun to burn people, turn stuff sideways, accrue advantage, and play control. In one deck. You can't really NOT run that comb, or doomsday in this deck, for that matter, but my most fun ninja wins come through big, fat chunks of pain.

[@Jugglerman]

Love the video! One thing I would note is at @9:00 it seems like there is a cut when describing a new NEO ninja

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Lol yes! It was at this moment that I realized I forgot to talk about sakashima’s student as a win condition which made me lose my train of thought hahaha

[@calebwolfenden8061]

These deck techs are great. I’d love to see a deck tech for a Jeska/Ishai. It’ll probably take a while for this to happen, but I’ll keep asking for it to happen.

[@mitsosoftheelves]

Yuriko is my favorite eCDH commander (well, to watch games with her on YT, as I don't play myself hahaha), so nice!

[@TMGTCG]

thanks! upgraded my yuriko deck based on your suggestion :)

[@NewSchoolPOKERstrat]

Love these.. More please

[@kassu27]

Great video, love the deck techs, could we get the cards you talk about edited to the video on screen, so we don't have to pause and Google them to read what they do exactly.

[@anthonylewis6656]

I'm sad it took this long for the video to pop up on my notifications but I love your stuff.

[@kennybaukchoi]

Always appreciate deck techs! Would love to see ikra/bruse ya snooze ya lose

[@astrielmaahes1116]

You two are so expressive with your hands.

[@TripsAhoy]

Love these deck techs! Also is that an unlimited underground sea? Or a proxy?

[@Adam9865]

I'm looking at remaking my Yuriko deck and this has helped give me some ideas, grant it I cant afford things like imperial seal but I can build most of the deck, whats your guys opinion of Jace the mind sculpter in this? Being able to brainstorm every turn is the way I won in the past.

[@foontes5187]

My go to. Thank you.

[@MTGTheStack]

Oh yeah. Preach boys. The good stuff. I've moved away from doomsday as the damage plan can be so reliable but it's such an awesome option. Prosperous Thief has been insane addiction as well!

[@mrmastashio315]

Great video guys, just wanted to note that I don't think Grafdiggers affects Pako/Haldan, certainly not their abilities.

[@Lumautis]

Hey! I run Varragoth too! I enjoy him in high power

[@SeanAngel07]

Would love to see A Korvold deck tech. I'm trying to revive the food chain list to the database. Submitted my list just wanting to see whats missing. Maybe you guy's tech could help

[@mikecameron9243]

One of my favorite MTG duo. 🥰

[@PlaytoWinMTG]

Thanks!

[@mc-rap2035]

Would you consider a Mirrorshell Crab as a budget option for the deck? Its a 7mv flip off Yuriko and gives an uncounterable mana leak/ mystical dispute.

[@alainlamour5868]

So I’ve been playing this deck since she came out and tuning it for years. My thoughts in testing deviate from the tempo list. I think after neon dynasty that the deck could pivot back to Yuriko turns really well… similarly to edric. I tried this tempo build and I found that there’s A LOT of creatures in this meta and these Yuriko triggers weren’t drawing me enough cards or being impactful enough to win. Taking extra turns synergizes really well with the high amount of QUALITY ninjas in this new set. And we also have more than enough free/ cheap counter magic to support the strategy imo. But bc I added about 7 extra turns spells I did need more artifact ramp. I just didn’t like the lack of mana when I’m trying to draw so many cards do so many things and still hold up interaction.

[@DaxVerus]

I love too that yuriko doesn't have a perfectly optimized version, it's a deck that can work in many different ways even though it's almost a creature toolkit feel. I run back alley broker to counter top deck decks but then the changlings and one drop rogues I use for yuriko act as mill engines down the road too

[@rantingrepublican4523]

I am curious about your thoughts on god eternal kefnet in cedh and any recommendations for the deck

[@FightinTheGorlax]

I ordered a couple cEDH decks in proxies, but was thinking of upgrading my yuriko list to cEDH (currently switched to a Satoru list to lower the power level). I was just concerned that Yuriko is the 2nd most popular commander on EDHREC. Is she seen as overplayed or overly common, or would I not have to worry about running into another Yuriko list too often?

[@kevtagg2925]

Will there be anymore Play to Win Destroyers play mats available in the future?

[@thomasdelaney6189]

Love the content guys, can you do Ikra/Bruse next?

[@Skream1185]

Great deck tech

[@Skream1185]

It really does run itself once it gets going. I went ninja tribal to power it down and it still runs away with games.

[@FateOfMilo]

Could you possibly do a vid on Korvold? Its one of my favorite decks but you dont really see it in CEDH anymore 😔

[@Yellow_Magpie]

love this channel! I'd love more info on why you immediately rejected some of those hands, I think it was because you weren't seeing those weenies you needed to get yuriko out fast and strong? But I'm unfamiliar with cEDH hand assessment!

[@breakneckrevs7302]

the goal of this deck is to get Yuriko in on turn 2 and accrue card advantage. The rest of your hand is much less important

[@phillipjo2131]

“Have to be a good pilot” is so right! I built it recently and make so many mistakes. It makes you learn all five of the combat steps. Gavin did a great video on his good morning Magic on how to ninjutsu. Also, it’s awesome in cdeh to mid power - just take out some extra turns and etc. For example in cdeh: doomsday thoracle insidious dreams. I’m mid take all of that out with some extra turns. Versatile fun deck

[@Fausto_4841]

i like that gavin made that video, so when i ninjutsu after damage has happened i can refer people to the video instead of trying to convince people i know what i'm talking about.

[@sorry987654321]

what are these crazy cool deckboxes that show on the front whats in them?

[@biggiewillz3446]

can we have a deck disscussion about the gitrog monster havent seen him in awhile

[@quintilla_1829]

Love these videos, just as an idea but itd be cool if you guys got other people to show off their deck (i.e. people from pwp, etc.)

[@abysslock]

Love Yuriko!

[@NameTakenSensei]

What's the song playing the background, I need to play it at my home games when we're all doing kamigawa decks

[@frostymourne]

When yuriko first announced. Me and my cousins wanted to get yuriko and build a deck immediately. Solely because ninjas were the reason I started playing Mtg years ago. We look at different builds online and cedh builds. But we do have a little budget to splurge but not too much. Yuriko was the only commander that me and 2 cousins each have their own. One day we decided to go to an LGS and have some casual EDH, after several games with our other decks. The last game had everyone joined tables with us to have a huge edh battle. About 10+ players. So for fun I told my cousins, hey let’s do something crazy let’s whip out yuriko for this game. Initially they were like “Whut no.. we will get aggro-ed first” but after a short discussion we decided ah heck this is for fun. Within the first few turns with some yuriko triggers half of our opponents were almost half dead. A few more turns some opponents folded without doing much. The only players alive were all the Yuriko players which was only me and my cousins and 1 non Yuriko player. The game ended with me winning only because I had some tutor cards, a cheap counter spell and a scroll rack in play.

[@softyymaru4435]

what kind of deck boxes are those in the background?

[@FecklessSpoon]

do you think the next deck tech you do could be Jeska Ishai?

[@justinalstad]

Any consideration of Fallen Shinobi or is it just too expensive for cEDH?

[@myrcandraw]

wohoooo yuriko main lets gooo!!

[@DennisTheBear]

Fucking slapper of a video, lads

[@andrewpope6459]

Do you ever find yourself discard down to hand size? Or rather how often?

[@kurtzimmerman9272]

Definitely an awesome commander my friends and I did budget commander and l chose yuriko she’s sweet and cheap great for new players on a budget

[@Fausto_4841]

yuriko was really cheap before neon dynasty was announced. the lands and the counterspells were really the most expensive things, so if you didn't go the cedh route you could build a very strong deck for about a hundred bucks, then plug in your land staples and it's ready to rock.

[@graveyardgary3230]

I am probably late to the party, but Cameron has a Nethroi deck?! Do a decktech on that!

[@richardsneddon2976]

Guys I would like to see your take on a yawgmoth deck tech please

[@zstormw]

Depending on how prevalent the new Channel lands become, do you guys think that there could be room for stifle/Tale's End in some decklists going forward? Or would they be too narrow still?

[@breakneckrevs7302]

I play Yuriko cEDH and have been using Tale's end for a while. It's excellent in the deck and should be an auto include IMHO

[@jbs6614]

tale's end is expensive for it's cost, stifle is narrow/meta-dependent, and the meta rn does not call for it.

[@jannamcjanna6802]

Yuriko is a fun deck, counter balance is such a great card

[@n3rdm4n36]

"Going Deep w/ Lim-Dul's Vault" 😏

[@FlockGang410]

How many Counterspells do you recommend in an average Yuriko deck?

[@serenades666]

Do you have an opinion on Kaito?

[@boss48008]

Your us link in dragon shield for the us is the EU one mind sending the us one please.

[@antfayden4559]

I noticed you arent running abjure. Any reasoning on that?

[@yaakovkagel1015]

I love these deck techs! I play casual Yuriko so this was super interesting. Keep making the awesome content!

[@Kzzyn1990]

ahh yuriko...i will never forget the look on my friends faces at the table when i resolved 3 yuriko triggers and flipped draco, blightsteel colossus and temporal trespass and everyone got 39 damage directly in the face xD i know that these cards are not that good for playing purpose, but they're incredible to swipe a big ninja-tabi through your friends faces because of their cmc's. now i get hate everytime i pull out this deck :D

[@menace2society367]

How many lands do u recommend i have 31

[@vo1d235]

I was hoping it was like a budget deck between 100$ - 200$ but when I went to look at the price in the links it’s more than 3K. I’ve been wanting to start playing yuriko but it feels it’s kinda impossible with that price

[@xOptoger]

I knew I wasn't crazy when I added Maelstrom Wanderer to the deck.

[@don945646]

Ok any substitutes for the expensive artifacts and lands?

[@don945646]

Oh a like? Wonderful 😅

[@mthlay15]

You guys are so handsome 😍 thanks for being dope nerds and sharing all this great decktech.

[@paytonhess3420]

Satoru is dope af, would love to see some cedh spicyness outa him 🤤🤭

[@Formitius]

what if you dont wanna play permission?

[@jesusalangallardo5545]

Anyone knows what Deckboxes they use?

[@DrkNinja_]

So I built a Yuriko deck and ran a bunch of dual cards (like the old school ones and amonkhet ones) because they're CMC in your deck is equal to both costs. Are there any of those cards that would be viable here in cEDH?

[@antihero615]

My original Yuriko deck had a bunch of dual cards too, but like you said, they might not be cedh viable(and my original deck definitely wasn’t, being my first commander deck period). I kept Commit/Memory in it for a long time after trying to upgrade it to cedh levels. When I first read your post for some reason I thought you meant flip cards. Agadeems’s Awakening and Sea Gate Restoration show up in the cedh versions as they are kind of lands that Yuriko flips for big damage, but Agadeem’s can also be pulled with Doomsday if you think the Thoracle will be stopped the first time around. Sorry if that was rambling.

[@breakneckrevs7302]

consign // oblivion should be in the deck 100% imo

[@gitch7962]

IS THAT EARLING HAALAND what a legend

[@Vegiroth191]

Any Lathril love cedh? Or more casual?

[@waterlily3376]

I was suprised cards like treasure cruise or dig through time are ignored. Is that because you don't need the card draw, and don't have card to delve regularly?

[@faperito2389]

I run both in my list, and usually there is plenty of cards in the yard to delve!!!