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Junji, the Midnight Sky
Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander
Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.
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What Junji, the Midnight Sky actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · deathWhen Junji dies, choose one —
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · menacemenace
- Ability• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.
What a Junji, the Midnight Sky deck needs
Plays as death payoff (sacrifice & recur). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- sacrifice outlets and recursion for Junji (each death is a payoff)
- big creature cards in graveyards to take
- discard and drain payoffs
The Junji, the Midnight Sky deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
- 9× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Junji, the Midnight Sky
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
- Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
- Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
- Liliana of the Veil3 mana
- Rankle, Master of Pranks4 mana
- Anvil of Bogardan2 mana
- The Raven Man2 mana
- Drainpipe Vermin1 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Dark Privilege2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Lord Skitter's Butcher3 mana
- Skorpekh Lord3 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Combos with Junji, the Midnight Sky
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Junji, the Midnight Sky is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Junji, the Midnight Sky + Viscera Seer + Zulaport Cutthroat + Karmic Guide1,033 decks
- Junji, the Midnight Sky + Viscera Seer + Blood Artist + Karmic Guide991 decks
- Junji, the Midnight Sky + Viscera Seer + Cruel Celebrant + Karmic Guide844 decks
- Junji, the Midnight Sky + Ashnod's Altar + Blood Artist + Karmic Guide820 decks
- Junji, the Midnight Sky + Ashnod's Altar + Zulaport Cutthroat + Karmic Guide816 decks
- Junji, the Midnight Sky + Ashnod's Altar + Cruel Celebrant + Karmic Guide667 decks