Modern: BU Ninjas

by dannyhewson on 11 November 2011

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Enchantments (3)

Submit a list of cards below to bulk import them all into your sideboard. Post one card per line using a format like "4x Birds of Paradise" or "1 Blaze", you can even enter just the card name by itself like "Wrath of God" for single cards.


Deck Description

Ninja deck I put together for a modern tournament.

EDIT: The deck was moderately successful in its tournament, however some clear weaknesses arose in its original build, and a few unexpected successes.

Weaknesses:
-The original build had real issues with near creatureless decks as I had no real answer to a handful of burn spells, or flashback. The sideboard on the deck has now had the other two ninjas (discard and graveyard exile) added to help in this matchup.
-Wydwen didnt not turn out as useful as i expected. Shes now been lowered to 1 copy in the sideboard.
-blinding powder was worse than useless. GONE.
-I didnt really get to "curse of deaths hold" at a point when it was useful and i could cast it.
-asceticism. it was not nice to this deck. again however whispersilk cloaks and okibas should help somewhat in that matchup.

Strengths
-Invisible stalker: I hadnt appreciated just how helpful this creature can be. Am considering throwing in butchers cleavers for him to use once hes done his job getting the ninjas out.
-If the deck gets rolling against a creature heavy deck its VERY difficult for the opponent to keep a creature on the field.

Deck Tags

  • Theme

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

0
Likes

This deck has been viewed 5,429 times.

Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

0181900

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Modern: BU Ninjas

Looks like a good start, though I don't like Blinding Powder. The way I see a ninja deck, you shouldn't need to prevent any damage to it. Maybe replace them with 2 more Whispersilk Cloaks for more unblockableness :)

A nice 'unblockable' creature for a ninja deck is ??Thalakos Seer. It has shadow (that can almost never be blocked) and when you ninjitsu it back to your hand, you get to draw a card :p

0
Posted 11 November 2011 at 16:00

Permalink

Ive actually had a chance to test this in a tournament (8th out of either 16 or 18, i cant remember) and had some awesome rounds.

Its led me to agree completely with you on blinding powder. Wasnt useful ONCE. I think ill be getting some more whispersilk cloaks. And I LIKE Thalakos Seer, I can see what you mean about him working well with ninjas. Unfortunately I was playing modern so I couldnt have used him, but when I play this in casual I think hell definitely replace tormented soul (invisible stalker worked really well for me, whereas tormented soul got picked off too easily, and if hes gonna get killed off at least ill get something out of it).

I think im gonna drop curse of deaths hold, Kiku, and the sideboarded ornithopters...

0
Posted 13 November 2011 at 21:27

Permalink

you need ornithopter to get those ninjas out and more discard maybe inquisition would be really good

0
Posted 03 February 2014 at 07:35

Permalink