Cabal Therapy
Cabal Therapy is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Judgment printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€21.08) · TCGplayer ($21.56) · Scryfall
How often Cabal Therapy is played
Cabal Therapy is maindecked in 20 of 77 tournament decks in this archive (26%), averaging 3.3 copies; kept in 3 sideboards (4%); used by 5 of 21 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 45 decks that can cast black cards, 21 of them play it (47%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Cabal Therapy
- Mono Black: The blowout: name correctly and every copy disappears, then flash it back for free by sacrificing a Ravenous Rats whose work is done. The best card in the deck against combo.
- The Rock: The blowout: informed by Duress it strips every copy of the card that matters, and the flashback cost is a Wall of Blossoms or Ravenous Rats whose work was already done.
- Reanimator: A discard outlet and a disruption spell in one: name your own creature to pitch it, then flash it back off a sacrifice to tear the answer out of the opponent's hand as you go off.
- Clerics: Strips a card for one mana, then flashes back off any creature sacrifice. With Rotlung out, sacrificing a Cleric refunds a 2/2, so the second strip is close to free.
- Zombies: Name the card, see the hand, take every copy, then flash it back by sacrificing a Zombie you can recur or replace. After Duress you name with certainty; blind, you name the card that beats you: Pernicious Deed, Wrath of God, Replenish, Oath of Druids, Phyrexian Dreadnought.
Tournament decks with Cabal Therapy
- The Rock: 3rd Place at Premodern MTGO Challenge (4× mainboard)
- UBG Madness: 1st Place at Lega Roma - IV Tappa (2× mainboard)
- Angry Hermit: 5th Place at $1K @ SCG CON Dallas (3× main + sideboard)
- Horror Stompy: 3rd Place at MTGO Premodern Challenge (3× mainboard)
- Quiet Tribe: 8th Place at Nacional Premodern - Second Chance (2× sideboard)
- Mono Black Reanimator: 3rd Place at Open Coquimbo Agosto 2026 (4× mainboard)
- Moneyball: 1st Place at LPP x Trial Épico (4× mainboard)
- Junk Nightmare: 1st Place at Premodern Monthly (2× mainboard)
- Darigaaz Midrange Sideboard: 3rd Place at Liga Feijoada 2026 #8 (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 1st Place at Mogg Monthly: Sligh July (4× main + sideboard)
- Machine Head: 4th Place at Premodern Mainz Monthly (3× mainboard)
- zombies: 4th Place at La Parroquia Friday Night (4× mainboard)
- Black Contamination: 3rd Place at PREM Brescia (4× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black: 6th Place at PMPMPMPM XXXVIII (4× mainboard)
- Clerics: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (3× mainboard)
- Rector Decree: 3rd Place at Fight Club - Monthly #7 (4× mainboard)
- BG Rack: 3rd Place at Lega Milano 3/12 (4× mainboard)
- Moneyball Black: 2nd Place at Liga Paulista de Premodern 2026 (3× mainboard)
- 5 Colors: 3rd Place at Final Liga Madrileña (4× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (3× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Cabal Therapy
- Great Combo (4×)
- Hypnotic Wurm (2×)
- Battle of Wits (4×)
