Duress
Duress is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Seventh Edition printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€0.75) · TCGplayer ($0.59) · Scryfall
How often Duress is played
Duress is maindecked in 12 of 39 tournament decks in this archive (31%), averaging 3.8 copies; kept in 3 sideboards (8%); used by 6 of 17 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 23 decks that can cast black cards, 14 of them play it (61%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Duress
- Mono Black: The surgical strike: takes the removal spell, sweeper or combo piece before it matters, and the information it gives makes every later Cabal Therapy a guaranteed hit.
- Psychatog: Turn-one disruption against Enchantress, Replenish, Oath and the mirror, and the main reason the deck holds up against combo without access to Force of Will.
- The Rock (3x)
- Clerics (4x)
- Dromar Control: Strips the counter or the sweeper before you commit, and shows you the hand so the next Meddling Mage names correctly. Close to a blank against creature decks.
Tournament decks with Duress
- 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 (3× sideboard)
- Black Contamination: 3rd Place at PREM Brescia (4× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× sideboard)
- Mono Black: 6th Place at PMPMPMPM XXXVIII (3× main + sideboard)
- Clerics: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× mainboard)
- Pox: 3rd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante 2026 9ª Jornada (4× mainboard)
- BG Rack: 3rd Place at Lega Milano 3/12 (4× mainboard)
- Deadguy Angels: 1st Place at Lega Premodern La Contea (4× mainboard)
- Dromar Control: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá (4× mainboard)
- Moneyball Black: 2nd Place at Liga Paulista de Premodern 2026 (4× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (4× mainboard)
- BW Control: 5th Place at LWPP Maio/2026 Top8 (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Duress
- Hypnotic Wurm (4×)
