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Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare · {1}{W/B}{W/B} · Black/White commander
Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Lifelink
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.
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What Lurrus of the Dream-Den actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Static ability · restrictionOnce during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.
- Keyword · companioncompanion
- Keyword · lifelinklifelink
- AbilityCompanion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less.
What a Lurrus of the Dream-Den deck needs
Plays as graveyard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- permanents with mana value 2 or less (one comes back from the graveyard each turn)
- sacrifice outlets and self-mill to put them there
The Lurrus of the Dream-Den deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 5× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
Best cards for Lurrus of the Dream-Den
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.
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
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 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
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Cartel Aristocrat2 mana
Combos with Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lurrus of the Dream-Den is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Displacer Kitten + Lotus Petal1,714 decks
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Displacer Kitten + Mox Diamond1,178 decks
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Displacer Kitten + Lion's Eye Diamond778 decks
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Kaya's Ghostform + Phyrexian Altar726 decks
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Kaya's Ghostform + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer495 decks
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Kaya's Ghostform + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar334 decks