Red/Black by user4474256

Format: Commander

Commander: Juri, Master of the Revue

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

Juri, Master of the Revue leads a Rakdos sacrifice deck that turns creatures, Treasures, Blood tokens, and other permanents into damage, cards, mana, and incremental control. The strongest ordinary plan is to deploy a sacrifice outlet such as Viscera Seer, Woe Strider, or Phyrexian Altar, generate expendable creatures with Chittering Witch, Rite of Belzenlok, or Goblin Rabblemaster, and pair them with a death payoff such as Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Mayhem Devil, or Bastion of Remembrance. Juri, Master of the Revue grows as permanents are sacrificed and can convert its accumulated power into one large death trigger. The deck also has meaningful creature attrition through Dictate of Erebos and Priest of Forgotten Gods. Its main limitations are sparse acceleration, limited tutoring, little protection, and no compact table-ending loop. It usually creates a threatening engine around turn 7 but does not reliably finish all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barter in Blood
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Cat
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Bone Splinters
  • 1 Bubbling Cauldron
  • 1 Burn Down the House
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Dark Salvation
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Devils' Playground
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Dross Hopper
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Falkenrath Celebrants
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar
  • 1 Forge Boss
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Goblin Assault
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Impetuous Devils
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Lampad of Death's Vigil
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Midnight Ritual
  • 1 Moonstone Eulogist
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rite of Belzenlok
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Showstopper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stormclaw Rager
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Swarm Culler
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat