1.47 - Juri by PeanutsOfAwe

Format: Commander

Commander: Juri, Master of the Revue

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck uses Juri, Master of the Revue as an escalating combat threat and targeted damage bomb. Deployed early on Turn 2, Juri grows whenever you sacrifice any permanent, turning creature tokens, Eldrazi Spawns, and Treasure tokens into +1/+1 counters. The deck supports this with sacrifice outlets like Spawning Pit, recursive enchantments like Cultist of the Absolute, and burn enablers like Mayhem Devil and Nadier's Nightblade. Because the list contains no infinite loops or dedicated tutor packages, it wins through steady attrition, large commander attacks, and death-trigger retaliation. Protection spells like Feign Death and Fake Your Own Death pull double duty by returning Juri to the battlefield while allowing the lethal death trigger to fire. The strategy plays as an honest mid-power aristocrats build that grinds down opponents over multiple combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Beetle-Headed Merchants
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Boiling Rock Prison
  • 1 Bold Plagiarist
  • 1 Braids's Frightful Return
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Churn
  • 1 Cruel Administrator
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defenestrate
  • 1 Dread Drone
  • 1 Expressive Firedancer
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Footsteps of the Goryo
  • 1 Forge Boss
  • 1 Furnace Celebration
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 General Traag, Heart of Stone
  • 1 Goatnap
  • 1 Grim Bounty
  • 1 HYDRA Assault Robot
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Junkyard Genius
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 Light 'Em Up
  • 1 Masked Meower
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Melancholic Poet
  • 1 Meticulous Artisan
  • 1 Molten Man, Inferno Incarnate
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Orbital Plunge
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Pirate Peddlers
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Return to Action
  • 1 Scarlet Spider, Kaine
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Shadow Urchin
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Shriek, Treblemaker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Squirrelanoids
  • 1 Stark Industries Executive
  • 1 Summon: Esper Ramuh
  • 1 Summon: G.F. Ifrit
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Taunting Kobold
  • 1 The Long Reach of Night // Animus of Night's Reach
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Ultimate Green Goblin
  • 1 Unburied Earthcarver
  • 1 Underworld Hermit
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Zhao, Ruthless Admiral