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Junji, the Midnight Sky

Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

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.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secret Lair Countdown
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1202
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Junji, the Midnight Sky card art
Junji, the Midnight Sky lands as a 5/5 flyer that poisons the board while it's alive and punishes opponents for killing it — either stripping hands or reanimating anything from any graveyard. The cost is five mana and a black-heavy pip requirement, which is trivially met in mono-black or Dimir shells but limits how freely you can splash it; pair it with a free sacrifice outlet like Viscera Seer and you choose when the death trigger fires, turning every removal spell into a liability for the caster, not you — something Sivitri, Dragon Master decks exploit by running Junji as both a dragon synergy piece and a recursive threat.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sivitri, Dragon Master

Sivitri, Dragon Master

67.4% of decks · synergy 0.66

Sivitri, Dragon Master tutors Junji, the Midnight Sky directly onto the battlefield, then gets to use the death trigger as a recursive engine whenever opponents try to answer the dragon package — the synergy rate above 65% reflects how cleanly Junji fits the gameplan of tutoring, attacking, and recovering.

02
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

76.7% of decks · synergy 0.65

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre's blitz mechanic lets you deploy Junji, the Midnight Sky ahead of curve with haste, deal damage, and then cash in the death trigger immediately at end of turn — you get the attack and the reanimation or discard effect without ever paying full retail.

03
Ratadrabik of Urborg

Ratadrabik of Urborg

53.7% of decks · synergy 0.50

Ratadrabik of Urborg creates a nonlegendary token copy of Junji, the Midnight Sky when it dies, meaning you can trigger Junji's death ability and still have a 5/5 in play — the loop potential there is real if you control a free sac outlet.

04

Eddie Brock

60.8% of decks · synergy 0.49

Eddie Brock rewards filling the graveyard with high-value creatures, and Junji, the Midnight Sky's reanimation mode feeds that gameplan while also functioning as a standalone threat that taxes opponents for removing it.

05
Araumi of the Dead Tide

Araumi of the Dead Tide

41.2% of decks · synergy 0.40

Araumi of the Dead Tide's encore ability creates multiple copies of Junji, the Midnight Sky that attack and then die at end of turn, stacking the death trigger and either stripping multiple hands or pulling several creatures out of graveyards simultaneously.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Junji, the Midnight Sky actually lives — the death trigger hits all opponents simultaneously, so the hand disruption or reanimation effect scales in a multiplayer game in a way it simply cannot in a duel. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but practically absent; a five-mana 5/5 with a dies trigger doesn't compete in formats where games end on turn three or four, and the reanimation clause requires a creature already in a graveyard, which opponents in those formats manage carefully. Vintage has the card legal but the same efficiency ceiling applies. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground — a 58-card singleton format where the death trigger's power is more relevant — though Junji's best home by a wide margin remains the 100-card multiplayer table.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Junji, the Midnight Sky has appeared in multiple products, which historically keeps supply healthy and prices accessible — it's rarely a budget obstacle for the Commander tables where it belongs.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.