---
name: "Satoru Umezawa"
mana_cost: "{1}{U}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Human Ninja"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B", "U"]
keywords: []
set: "PNEO"
set_name: "Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos"
collector_number: "234s"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Anna Pavleeva"
oracle_id: "ed1d21ba-ddfe-4f82-9e37-93f9e2c7ba33"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/satoru-umezawa-pneo"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Satoru Umezawa
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{U}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Human Ninja

## Oracle Text
Whenever you activate a ninjutsu ability, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Each creature card in your hand has ninjutsu {2}{U}{B}.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [A-Satoru Umezawa](/printing/a-satoru-umezawa-neo.md) — Legendary Creature — Human Ninja
2. [Walker of Secret Ways](/printing/walker-of-secret-ways-pca.md) — Creature — Human Ninja
3. [Sakashima's Student](/printing/sakashimas-student-pca.md) — Creature — Human Ninja
4. [Ninja of the Deep Hours](/printing/ninja-of-the-deep-hours-c18.md) — Creature — Human Ninja
5. [Moon-Circuit Hacker](/printing/moon-circuit-hacker-neo.md) — Enchantment Creature — Human Ninja
6. [A-Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion](/printing/a-nashi-moon-sages-scion-neo.md) — Legendary Creature — Rat Ninja

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos (PNEO) #234s
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Anna Pavleeva
- **Total Printings:** 10 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2022-02-18)* The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.
- *(2022-02-18)* Although the Ninja is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).
- *(2022-02-18)* If a creature in combat has first strike or double strike, you can activate the ninjutsu ability during the first-strike combat damage step. The Ninja will deal combat damage during the regular combat damage step, even if it has first strike.
- *(2022-02-18)* The creature with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu; in other cases, when a creature is put onto the battlefield attacking, that creature's controller chooses which player or planeswalker it's attacking.
- *(2022-02-18)* Once you activate a ninjutsu ability, no player can affect that ability by removing Satoru Umezawa from the battlefield. Even if Satoru leaves the battlefield before it resolves, you'll still be able to put the creature onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.
- *(2022-02-18)* The ninjutsu ability can be activated during the declare blockers step, combat damage step, or end of combat step. In most cases (see below), if you wait until the combatdamage step or end of combat step, it will be after combat damage has been dealt, so the Ninja won't deal combat damage.