Dark Ritual
Dark Ritual is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Tempest printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1.67) · TCGplayer ($4.17) · Scryfall
How often Dark Ritual is played
Dark Ritual is maindecked in 9 of 39 tournament decks in this archive (23%), averaging 3.9 copies; used by 3 of 17 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 23 decks that can cast black cards, 9 of them play it (39%).
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.
- 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.
Tournament decks with Dark Ritual
- 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)
- Deadguy Angels: 1st Place at Lega Premodern La Contea (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)
