Sarcomancy
Mana cost {B}.
When this enchantment enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Zombies on the battlefield, this enchantment deals 1 damage to you.
Sarcomancy is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Tempest printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€19.63) · TCGplayer ($16.19) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €17.64 and €21.63 in that time.
How often Sarcomancy is played
Sarcomancy 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 Sarcomancy
- Zombies: The second two-power one-drop: an enchantment that makes a 2/2 Zombie token when it enters. As long as any Zombie is on the battlefield it costs nothing more, and in this deck that is almost always true. Together with Carnophage it gives eight copies of a turn-one 2/2.
Tournament decks with Sarcomancy
- Hatred Zombies: Top 8 at Comix Café (4× mainboard)
- Zombie Tribal: 1st Place at Cloudpost PM 7/26 (4× mainboard)
- Enchantress Aggro: 1st Place at Phoenix Games Monthly (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 1st Place at Premodern Xpress #1 (4× mainboard)
- Horror Stompy: 3rd Place at MTGO Premodern Challenge (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)
- zombies: 4th Place at La Parroquia Friday Night (4× mainboard)
- Mono Black: 6th Place at PMPMPMPM XXXVIII (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Sarcomancy
- Deadapult (4×)
