Fun with Friends, like in the movie Scream by PandariusRex

Format: Commander

Commander: Juri, Master of the Revue

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Aristocrats combo strategy commanded by Juri, Master of the Revue. The core game plan focuses on generating continuous sacrifice triggers to build Juri's power, draw cards, and drain opponents with death triggers. The deck accelerates in the opening turns using efficient mana pieces like Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, and Blood Pet, assembling a sacrifice outlet alongside recursive creatures like Gravecrawler and Putrid Goblin by Turn 4. On Turn 5, it closes the game through infinite sacrifice loops with Phyrexian Altar, fling damage from Juri, or the alternate two-card combo of Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank. While the deck possesses immense resilience against removal due to heavy graveyard recursion and redundant drain pieces, it runs limited stack protection and spot removal for noncreature permanents, relying instead on fast execution and heavy creature attrition to outpace the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eumidian Hatchery
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Jeweled Amulet
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch's Oven
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat