Carnophage
Mana cost {B}. Power/toughness 2/2.
At the beginning of your upkeep, tap this creature unless you pay 1 life.
Carnophage is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Exodus printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€0.68) · TCGplayer ($0.7) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.57 and €1.28 in that time.
How often Carnophage is played
Carnophage is maindecked in 9 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (7%), averaging 4.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 9 of them play it (12%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Carnophage
- Zombies: A 2/2 for one mana that taps itself in your upkeep unless you pay 1 life. Keep paying while you are the beatdown; stop paying and let it stay tapped once the drain plan is doing the work.
Tournament decks with Carnophage
- Zombies: 2nd Place at Premodern Fight Club (4× mainboard)
- Hatred Zombies: Top 8 at Comix Café (4× mainboard)
- Zombie Tribal: 1st Place at Cloudpost PM 7/26 (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 1st Place at Premodern Xpress #1 (4× mainboard)
- Red Broccoli Soup: 2nd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante La Casa dei Giochi (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 4th Place at Lega Milano 3/12 (4× mainboard)
- BR Carnophage Ponza: 3rd Place at Torneo @ Comix Café (4× mainboard)
- zombies: 4th Place at La Parroquia Friday Night (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black: 6th Place at PMPMPMPM XXXVIII (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Carnophage
- Deadapult (4×)
