Dark Ritual
Dark Ritual is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Tempest printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1.87) · TCGplayer ($4.27) · Scryfall
How often Dark Ritual is played
Dark Ritual is maindecked in 15 of 77 tournament decks in this archive (19%), averaging 3.9 copies; used by 5 of 21 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 45 decks that can cast black cards, 15 of them play it (33%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Dark Ritual
- Mono Black: Three mana for one card: a turn-one Specter, a turn-one Rats plus Duress, or a turn-two Graveborn Muse. The explosiveness that makes a fair midrange deck play like an aggro deck.
- Deadguy Ale (4x)
- Reanimator (4x)
- Clerics: The accelerant that chains Priests together: Swamp into Ritual into Priest into Priest can deploy three Clerics and a Supplicant on turn one.
- Zombies (4x)
Tournament decks with Dark Ritual
- Basic Mono Black: 4th Place at Andre's League 10 Tappa (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 4th Place at Lega Milano 3/12 (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Reanimator: 3rd Place at Open Coquimbo Agosto 2026 (4× mainboard)
- Moneyball: 1st Place at LPP x Trial Épico (4× mainboard)
- BR Carnophage Ponza: 3rd Place at Torneo @ Comix Café (4× mainboard)
- Deadguy Angels: 1st Place at Lega Premodern La Contea (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 1st Place at Mogg Monthly: Sligh July (4× mainboard)
- Mono B Control: 7th Place at Premodern & Hooters 8th Edition (4× mainboard)
- Machine Head: 4th Place at Premodern Mainz Monthly (4× mainboard)
- zombies: 4th Place at La Parroquia Friday Night (4× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (3× mainboard)
- Clerics: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× mainboard)
- Moneyball Black: 2nd Place at Liga Paulista de Premodern 2026 (4× mainboard)
- 5 Colors: 3rd Place at Final Liga Madrileña (4× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Dark Ritual
- Great Combo (3×)
- Deadapult (4×)
- Painters (4×)
