Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Gameplan

Tetsuko turns small, evasive creatures into a relentless source of unblockable damage and combat triggers. Deploy cheap 1-power creatures and tokens, make everything unblockable, then snowball with combat-damage triggers (theft, card draw, poison) while protecting Tetsuko or your key attacker. You grind incremental advantage and close with either commander damage, infinite combat, or alternate win cards.

Key Cards

• Triton Shorestalker — A 1/1 unblockable ninjutsu enabler that reliably connects to trigger payoffs and return ninjas.
• Coastal Piracy — Each unblockable hit draws a card, turning a wide board into massive card advantage.
• Bident of Thassa — Refills your hand on combat damage and can force opponents to attack, clearing their blockers.
• Thassa, Deep-Dwelling — Adds evasion redundancy, blink value, and an indestructible body that's hard to remove.
• Skullclamp — Turns your 1-toughness creatures into a card-draw engine when they trade or get sacrificed.
• Bloodchief Ascension — With unblockable poison/mill creatures, repeated triggers snowball into a fast clock.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana (Sol Ring, mana rocks) and tutors like Mystical Tutor to find Skullclamp, Coastal Piracy, or your infect payoffs more consistently. Lean into a single focused win plan—infect is the fastest, while ninjutsu offers more resilient value. Round out with cheap interaction (Swan Song, Pact of Negation, Cyclonic Rift) and protection like Lightning Greaves to keep Tetsuko online.