Powder Keg
Powder Keg is legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Urza's Destiny printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€57.53) · TCGplayer ($73.45) · Scryfall
How often Powder Keg is played
Powder Keg is maindecked in 10 of 77 tournament decks in this archive (13%), averaging 2.5 copies; kept in 8 sideboards (10%); used by 4 of 21 tracked archetypes.
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Powder Keg
- Landstill: A sweeper that never casts a spell on your own turn: tick it up under Standstill and clear every one- and two-drop at once. Quietly one of the best cards against Sligh and Goblins.
Tournament decks with Powder Keg
- Basic Mono Black: 4th Place at Andre's League 10 Tappa (3× sideboard)
- Horror Stompy: 3rd Place at MTGO Premodern Challenge (2× mainboard)
- Colorless MUD Stax: 2nd Place at Liga Feijoada @ Santa Cruz (4× mainboard)
- Mono Red Control: 3rd Place at Mogg Monthly: Phyrexian Colaugust (4× mainboard)
- Fires: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (3× mainboard)
- Moneyball: 1st Place at LPP x Trial Épico (2× sideboard)
- Ponza Red: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (1× sideboard)
- Mono B Control: 7th Place at Premodern & Hooters 8th Edition (2× mainboard)
- Black Contamination: 3rd Place at PREM Brescia (3× mainboard)
- Pox: 3rd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante 2026 9ª Jornada (2× main + sideboard)
- UW Landstill: 1st Place at New England Summer Regional (1× mainboard)
- Mono W Tron: 2nd Place at Premodern at the Port (2× mainboard)
- Moneyball Black: 2nd Place at Liga Paulista de Premodern 2026 (2× sideboard)
- Super Wayfarer: 1st Place at Premodern Online Monthly (3× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (1× sideboard)
- Welder Survival: 1st Place at 1K @ SCG CON Washington (1× sideboard)
- Mono R Ponza: 1st Place at Chile Premier League – May 2026 (1× sideboard)
Spicy brews with Powder Keg
- Hammer Time (4×)
