Sickening Dreams
Mana cost {1}{B}.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.
Sickening Dreams is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Torment printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€7.06) · TCGplayer ($3.23) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €1.91 and €7.06 in that time.
How often Sickening Dreams is played
Sickening Dreams is maindecked in 8 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (6%), averaging 1.8 copies; kept in 3 sideboards (2%); used by 2 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 Sickening Dreams
- Psychatog: Discard X cards as an extra cost, and it deals X damage to each creature and each player, you included. In almost every list since September, after almost none before June: a sweeper against Goblins and Elves, X cards in your graveyard for Psychatog, and a way to finish a game when the opponent has less life than you. With X of 2 or more it kills an unpumped Psychatog, so pump it in response or cast Dreams first.
- Reanimator (2x)
Sideboard plans with Sickening Dreams
- Reanimator vs. Goblins, Elves and Sligh. Sickening Dreams is in the main deck of nine of ten lists since September, and some lists add more after boarding.
Tournament decks with Sickening Dreams
- Reanimator: 2nd Place at Octobeerians Tournament '26 (2× mainboard)
- Contamination: 1st Place at UC Late Night (2× main + sideboard)
- Contamination: 6th Place at Premodern & Hooters 9 (1× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 5th Place at Technoliga Valenciana (3× main + sideboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at 2026 Nantuko League (3× mainboard)
- Mono Black Reanimator: 3rd Place at Open Coquimbo Agosto 2026 (2× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (2× mainboard)
- Pox: 3rd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante 2026 9ª Jornada (1× sideboard)
- 5 Colors: 3rd Place at Final Liga Madrileña (1× mainboard)
