Planechase decklists are out and will be available Friday (June 1). I'm still very excited to play with these as I'm sure many of you are as well. But, what I'm more excited about is playing these new cards in commander and the new planes in planechase/commander.
For today's deck building exercise, I'm going to take one of the 4 decks lists, Night of the Ninja, and transform it into a commander deck with the same basic feel.
In order to keep the same feel, I'm also going to impose deckbuilding rules. The 60 card deck has: 1 Mythic, 7 rares, 14 Uncommon, and 38 commons. For the next 40 cards I will add. 1 mythic, 5 Rares, 9 Uncommon, and 25 common cards. I will keep the land/creature/nonland ratio as well leaving us at 40 land, 43 creatures, 17 Non land.
Night of the Ninja
Planechase (2012 Edition) Deck
Current Lands:
First we have to replace the multiples as in commander we can only have 1 of each card.
Dimir Aqueduct- Evolving Wilds
Jwar Isle Refuge- Bad River
Adding: 16
6 Swamps
6 Islands
This keeps the same basic-nonbasic ratio and gives us some mana fixers and an evasive man land to trigger ninjitsu. 12 commons/4 uncommons used.
Creatures:
2 Augury Owl
2 Baleful Strix
1 Cadaver Imp
1 Dark Hatchling
2 Dimir Infiltrator
1 Glen Elendra Liege
1 Higure, the Still Wind
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
1 Inkfathom Witch
1 Liliana's Specter
1 Mistblade Shinobi
2 Ninja of the Deep Hours
1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
1 Sakashima's Student
1 Silent-Blade Oni
1 Skullsnatcher
1 Throat Slitter
2 Tormented Soul
1 Vela the Night-Clad
1 Walker of Secret Ways
1 Wall of Frost
2 Baleful Strix
1 Cadaver Imp
1 Dark Hatchling
2 Dimir Infiltrator
1 Glen Elendra Liege
1 Higure, the Still Wind
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
1 Inkfathom Witch
1 Liliana's Specter
1 Mistblade Shinobi
2 Ninja of the Deep Hours
1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
1 Sakashima's Student
1 Silent-Blade Oni
1 Skullsnatcher
1 Throat Slitter
2 Tormented Soul
1 Vela the Night-Clad
1 Walker of Secret Ways
1 Wall of Frost
Vela is promoted to the command zone.
Replace
Augury Owl- Æther Adept - The ability to bounce a blocker seems strong.
Baleful Strix - Shriekmaw - The deathtouch ability is replaced by simply killing a potential blocker.
Dimir Infiltrator - Neurok Invisimancer - Not only is he unblockable but he has an entering play ability.
Ninja of the Deep Hours -Scroll Thief not a ninja but still lets your draw when he hits.
Tormented Soul- Cloud Sprite- Cheap evasive replacement.
Add
Gravedigger Bringing you creatures back when they do get blocked can be very important.
Man-o'-War Another blocker bouncer
Merchant of Secrets Replaces himself
Mist Raven More bounce
Mulldrifter Best blue creature fits with the theme.
Parasitic Strix Just a fan of the blue creature with the black ability
Sedraxis Alchemist other side of parasitic strix
Wingcrafter Adds evasion for itself and a friend.
Oona's Blackguard There are a few rogues, this can take advantage of that.
Rishadan Footpad Gotta have some pirates in your ninja deck!
Skinrender Removal
Tandem Lookout Adds draw to himself and a friend.
Djinn of Wishes Bounce him once you use the wishes.
Deadeye Navigator 2 Mana to repeat many of these enter the battlefield effects is amazing.
Puppeteer Clique Too good not to run here. Once he comes back it's time to bounce.
Dimir Cutpurse we gain a card, they loose a card.
Massacre Wurm Our other mythic, makes things very once sided.
8 commons, 4 uncommon, 4 rare, 1 mythic used here. This leaves me with 5 common, 1 uncommon, 1 rare for the last section.
2 Assassinate
1 Cancel
1 Concentrate
1 Farsight Mask
1 Fractured Powerstone
1 Quietus Spike
2 Sai of the Shinobi
1 Whispersilk Cloak
1 Cancel
1 Concentrate
1 Farsight Mask
1 Fractured Powerstone
1 Quietus Spike
2 Sai of the Shinobi
1 Whispersilk Cloak
Replace
Assassinate- Seal of Doom Same cost, but seal can be played ahead of time as a deturant.
Sai of the Shinobi- Infiltration Lens if you block I get 2 cards, if you don't I may pull some ninjas out my sleeves.
Add
Bladed Pinions- Gives evasion and a bit of survival in first strike.
Bonesplitter- Gives our little guys a little extra power.
Dire Undercurrents With creatures going in and out of play this should trigger alot
Mask of Riddles Evasion and draw.
Artful Dodge 1 time evasion
Curfew- your creature will do something cool when it comes back.
Echoing Truth- bounce one of your guys, or a whole horde of tokens.
This grants us some evasion equipment, some ways to interact, and completely our deck exercise for the day. Hope you had fun.
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