OrzhovLegendary Creature — Cat NightmareLurrus of the Dream-Den
Mana value3Rank#2,696
The 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 
as a sorcery.)
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.
Guide
Gameplan
Lurrus grinds value by recurring cheap permanents from your graveyard every turn, rebuilding board presence through removal and sacrifice. You play a low-curve Orzhov aristocrats/midrange game, sacrificing and replaying small creatures and artifacts to accrue incremental advantage and bleed opponents out. The deck wins through repeated value loops, drain effects, and resilient pressure that opponents can't out-attrition.
Strengths
- Relentless card advantage by recasting permanents from graveyard each turn
- Cheap permanent base makes the deck fast, mana-efficient, and resilient to wraths
- Excellent at grinding longer games and out-valuing single-removal-heavy tables
- Easy combo and recursion loops with cheap artifacts and sac outlets
- Lifelink on the body buffers against aggro
Weaknesses
- MV 2 restriction (if used as companion) severely limits bombs and high-impact cards
- Slow to close games; can be out-tempoed by dedicated combo decks
- Heavy graveyard reliance—vulnerable to exile and graveyard hate
- Limited board wipes and few big mana sinks within the restriction
- Each-turn cap of one recast can bottleneck explosive turns
Key Cards
- Phyrexian Tower — Free sac outlet that fuels graveyard recursion and ramps for cheap permanents.
- Skullclamp — Cheap artifact draw engine that loops with Lurrus and any token generator.
- Blood Artist — Two-mana drain payoff that turns recurring small creatures into a win condition.
- Ashnod's Altar — Free sac and ramp outlet enabling repeatable loops with recurred permanents.
- Sun Titan — If not run as companion, it doubles your MV-2-or-less recursion engine alongside Lurrus.
- Vault of the Archangel — Cheap permanent that grants lifelink and deathtouch, dominating combat with tokens.
Upgrade Path
Decide whether to run Lurrus as a companion (full MV-2-or-less deck for the extra card) or just in the command zone (freeing you to play bombs and wraths). Add fast mana and tutors like Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Mana Crypt, then tighten an aristocrats combo line such as Vizier of Remedies + Devoted Druid feeders or Blood Artist drain loops. Finally, shore up graveyard protection and interaction with cheap disruption like Swords to Plowshares and Dauthi Voidwalker.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat loops
- ▸Repeated recursion grinding opponents out of resources, then attacking
- ▸Infinite or near-infinite combos with sac outlets and cheap creatures
- ▸Death-by-a-thousand-cuts midrange beatdown with lifelink buffer
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Recurring cheap creatures plus sac outlets and drain payoffs creates inevitable life loss.
- Artifacts/Recursion — Lurrus replays Skullclamp, mana rocks, and small artifacts every turn for engines.
- Midrange Grind — A low curve of efficient permanents plus repeatable recursion out-attrites opponents.
- Combo — Cheap permanent loops (altars, Blood Artist, recursion) assemble drain or mana combos.
Combos
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Displacer Kitten + Lotus Petal
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite storm count, Infinite ETB
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Displacer Kitten + Mox Diamond
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite storm count
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Displacer Kitten + Lion's Eye Diamond
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite storm count, Infinite ETB
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Kaya's Ghostform + Phyrexian Altar
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Kaya's Ghostform + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BW), by popularity.
