DimirLegendary Creature — Whale WolfUkkima, Stalking Shadow
Mana value3Rank#8,894PartnerYes
The Commander
Partner with Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (When this creature enters, target player may put Cazur into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Ukkima can't be blocked.
When Ukkima leaves the battlefield, it deals X damage to target player and you gain X life, where X is its power.
Guide
Gameplan
Cast Ukkima as a cheap unblockable evasive threat, then repeatedly blink, bounce, or sacrifice it to fire off its leaves-play damage-and-lifegain trigger for huge swings. Pair it with Cazur, Ruthless Stalker to dump +1/+1 counters onto Ukkima for explosive growth, then loop the leaves-the-battlefield drain to burn a table down. Turn to turn you're growing your power, protecting a flicker engine, and converting attacks plus death triggers into life swings.
Strengths
- Unblockable body guarantees damage and combat counter triggers connect
- Leaves-the-battlefield drain is a flexible, repeatable life-swing engine
- Cazur partner lets it snowball counters fast, scaling the drain to lethal
- Low mana value makes it cheap to recast after blink/sac loops
- Drains an opponent while gaining you life, stabilizing and pressuring at once
Weaknesses
- The payoff requires a blink/sac/bounce engine to repeat — naked it's just a beater
- Counter-based growth on Cazur is vulnerable to board wipes and removal
- Two-color (Dimir) limits ramp and big mana relative to combo loops
- Single-target drain doesn't close multiplayer games without repetition
- Graveyard or exile hate can disrupt recursion plans
Key Cards
- Cazur, Ruthless Stalker — Its partner that piles +1/+1 counters onto Ukkima, scaling the leaves-the-battlefield drain toward lethal.
- Ashnod's Altar — Free sacrifice outlet that triggers Ukkima's drain repeatedly while generating mana to recast it.
- Phyrexian Altar — Sac-and-recast loop fuel that turns Ukkima into a recurring drain engine.
- The Ozolith — Banks Ukkima's counters when it dies so it returns bigger, supercharging the drain.
- Conjurer's Closet — End-step blink reliably fires the drain trigger each turn without losing the counters permanently.
- Deadly Rollick — Free protection and removal that keeps your evasive engine alive.
Upgrade Path
Tighten the blink/sac engine with Ashnod's and Phyrexian Altar plus a free recast piece, and add The Ozolith and Hardened Scales effects so counters persist through loops. Layer in fast mana (Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, Jeweled Lotus) and protection like Deadly Rollick and Heroic Intervention to push toward a deterministic drain loop. For the highest power, build toward an infinite sacrifice-and-return combo so a single turn produces a lethal, repeatable drain.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Loop sacrifice/recast Ukkima with altars to drain a table to zero
- ▸Grow Ukkima huge with counters, then blink or bounce it for one massive drain kill
- ▸Unblockable commander damage chip-and-drain across several turns
- ▸Combo: Ozolith + sac outlet + free recast to repeat ever-larger drains
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Sacrifice outlets repeatedly trigger Ukkima's leaves-play drain for incremental damage and lifegain.
- Blink — Flicker effects re-fire the drain trigger each turn while keeping Ukkima on board as a threat.
- +1/+1 Counters — Cazur grows Ukkima's power, directly scaling the drain into a game-ending swing.
- Voltron/Drain Combo — Unblockable evasion plus a scalable power-based drain makes Ukkima a focused finisher.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BU), by popularity.
