Contents:

Story

Mechanics

Products

Booster Fun

Prerelease Events

Duskmourn’s Story

Duskmourn’s story begins much like any other – with a young girl, and the demon she unknowingly unleashed.

The Plane of Duskmourn was once a vibrant and growing plane with technology, before a demon known as Valgavoth expanded the boundaries of the house to which he was bound in an effort to consume both the plane itself, and everyone within it. The House has now taken over all of Duskmourn – and, thanks to the newly-created Omenpaths, is beginning to reach out into other planes for new victims.

The plane is inhabited by demons, beasties, gremlins, awakened toys, ghosts, giant wicker monstrosities, cultists, and more – Duskmourn promises a frighteningly good time for any fans of classic horror!

Want to know more about Duskmourn, the beasts within, the survivors, and the different realms within the House? Check out the Planeswalkers Guide to Duskmourn!

Mechanics

Duskmourn is chock-full of terrifying new mechanics. Let’s dive in:

Rooms

Room is a new enchantment subtype found on a new style of split cards. These new split permanents feature two halves, or two doors. You pick one door to “unlock” when you cast it – gaining the benefits of any “When you unlock this door” effects, as well as any static or triggered abilities on that half. But don’t despair just yet – you can still unlock the second half of the card! To do so, just pay the mana cost for the unlocked door. This happens as a sorcery, but is a special action that does not use the stack and cannot be interacted with. Once both doors are unlocked, you have the full benefits of both halves of the card. Any “When you unlock this door” effects trigger at the time you pay its mana cost.

It's worth noting - While on the battlefield, a Room card has the characteristics of its unlocked doors. For example, if only Porcelain Gallery is unlocked, the permanent's mana value is 6. If both doors are unlocked, the permanent's mana value is 8. Similarly, if both doors are unlocked, the permanent has two names. In your library, graveyard, and hand, a Room card has the combined mana value of both of its halves and both of its names. For example, if an effect allowed you to search your library for a card with mana value 3 or less, you couldn't find Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery, even though Dollmaker's Shop has a mana cost of 1W, because the mana value of the whole card is 8.

If a Room enters the battlefield without being cast, it will enter with both doors locked – but you can pay the mana cost for one or both doors any time you would be able to cast a sorcery. In addition, if you copy a Room, that copy will have the same doors unlocked as the original – and any locked doors are still available to be unlocked.

Manifest Dread

Manifest Dread is an ability meant to induce the fear of the unknown in your opponent by playing with the existing Manifest mechanic. Whenever a card tells you to Manifest Dread, you will look at the top two cards of your library and place one of them face-down on the battlefield (the other goes to your graveyard). That card is now a 2/2 creature that is colorless with no name, no creature type, no abilities, and no mana cost.

While you can Manifest any card, it’s a good idea to focus on creatures – a Manifested creature card can be turned face up at any time by paying its mana cost. Much like unlocking a room, this is a special action that doesn’t use the stack and can’t be interacted with, but you don’t have to wait until you can cast a sorcery to flip it. Simply reveal that it is a creature, pay its mana cost, and flip it. It immediately has all the characteristics of the creature – so if someone is targeting your 2/2 with Lightning Bolt, you can flip it into its higher toughness and survive the hit.

Survival

Survival abilities are specific abilities that trigger at the beginning of your second main phase, as long as the creature with the ability is tapped. Survival does not care how that creature came to be tapped – it could be by attacking, being the target of an ability, or some other way.

All creatures with a Survival ability have the new Survivor creature type.

Eerie

Eerie abilities are triggered abilities that trigger whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room. The first trigger condition means an eerie ability can potentially trigger twice thanks to a single Room card, once when it enters and again when it becomes fully unlocked.

Impending

Impending is a new keyword found on a cycle of Overlords that lets you cast them ahead of schedule. You can cast them for an alternative (reduced) Impending cost, and they will enter with a number of Time counters on them. The card is not a creature until all time counters have been removed – losing one at each of your end steps. This means that it can’t attack or block, or be the target of any spells or abilities that target creatures.

Each Overlord comes equipped with an “Enters” ability that triggers regardless of if it is Impending or cast normally.

Product Overview

There’s a ton of spooky Booster Fun in Duskmourn – we’ll cover that in the next section. Read below to see where you can find that specific Mirror Monster you’re looking for!

Play Boosters

Duskmourn: House of Horror Play Boosters each include the following: 

• 14 Magic: The Gathering cards 

  • 6–7 Commons 

  • There are 81 commons in the main set of Duskmourn: House of Horror that show up in this slot. Of those, 2 of the commons have a lurking evil version that will show up 1 in 4 times you see that common. 

  • One of the 10 Special Guests cards in non-foil replaces a common in 1 in 64 Play Boosters. Of note, Special Guests cards aren’t found in the wildcard nor traditional foil slot in Play Boosters. 

• 3 Uncommons 

  • There are 100 uncommons in the main set that show up in this slot. Of those, 4 of the uncommons have a lurking evil version and 4 have a paranormal frame version, each showing up 1 in 4 times you see that uncommon.  

• 1 Rare or mythic rare 

  • There are 60 rares (75%) and 20 mythic rares (12.6%) in the main set that show up in this slot. The remainder of the time, you get one of the following Booster Fun cards: 

    • 46 Booster Fun rares (8.2%) and 16 mythic rares (1.4%) – The cards found here include borderless treatments of Rooms, lands, and a planeswalker. This also includes paranormal frame cards, mirror monster cards, and double exposure cards. 

    • 7 Lurking Evil rares (2.5%) and 2 Lurking Evil mythic rares (0.3%) 

• 1 Wildcard of any rarity – Can be one of the cards mentioned in the above common, uncommon, and rare or mythic rare slots, including Booster Fun cards. 

• 1 Traditional foil card of any rarity – This slot contains the same list of cards as is found in the wildcard slot. 

• 1 Land card – Here, you get one of either the 5 full-art manor lands (13.3% non-foil, 3.3% traditional foil), 10 regular basic lands (26.7% non-foil, 6.7% traditional foil), or one of 10 common dual lands (40% non-foil, 10% traditional foil). 

• 1 Token or art card 

Collector Boosters

Duskmourn: House of Horror Collector Boosters each include the following: 

• 15 Magic: The Gathering cards 

  • 5 Traditional foil commons 

    • Includes the 81 main set commons, 10 dual land commons, and/or 2 lurking evil commons. All cards appear evenly with each other in these slots.  

  • 4 Traditional foil uncommons 

    • Includes the 100 main set uncommons, 4 paranormal frame uncommons, and/or 4 lurking evil uncommons. All cards appear evenly with each other in these slots. 

  • 1 Traditional foil full-art manor land card – Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest each have a single full-art manor land variant in traditional foil that comes in this slot. 

  • 1 Traditional foil rare or mythic rare card – Here, you get a single traditional foil rare (76.9%) or mythic rare (12.8%), or 1 of the 7 lurking evil rares (9.0%) or 2 mythic rares (1.3%). 

  • 1 Duskmourn Commander rare or mythic rare – In this slot, you will find 1 of the 8 borderless mythic rare commanders in traditional foil (6%) or in non-foil (12.1%). The remainder of the time, this slot will have an extended-art Commander rare in non-foil (81.9%). 

  • 2 Non-foil Booster Fun and/or extended-art cards – Each Collector Booster has a total of two cards from the variants listed below:  

    • 13 Extended-art rares (18.8%) 

    • 5 Extended-art mythic rares (3.6%) 

    • 10 Borderless rares (14.4%), including Rooms and lands 

    • 6 Borderless mythic rares (4%), including Rooms and a planeswalker 

    • 20 Paranormal frame rares (29%) and 2 mythic rares (1.5%) 

    • 12 Double exposure rares (17.4%) and 5 mythic rares (3.3%) 

    • 4 Mirror monster rares (5.8%) and 3 mythic rares (2.2%) 

  • 1 Traditional foil, textured foil, or fracture foil card – In addition to getting a traditional foil version of the cards found in the non-foil Booster Fun and/or extended-art slot, this slot is filled with some scary-good pulls from the halls of Duskmourn. These can be: 

    • 1 of 10 Traditional foil Japan Showcase cards in English (6%)* 

    • 1 of 10 Traditional foil Japan Showcase cards in Japanese (3%)* 

      • Japanese Collector Boosters will only have the 10 traditional foil Japanese-language versions of the Japan Showcase cards. They will appear inside the Collector Booster 9% of the time. 

    • 1 of 10 Fracture foil Japan Showcase cards in English (0.7%)* 

    • 1 of 10 Fracture foil Japan Showcase cards in Japanese (0.3%)* 

      • Japanese Collector Boosters will only have the 10 Japanese-language versions of the fracture foil Japan Showcase cards. They will appear inside the Collector Booster 1% of the time. 

    • 1 of 5 Textured foil double exposure mythic rare cards (1%) 

    • 1 of 10 Traditional foil Special Guests mythic rares (3.1%) 

    • The rest of the time (85.9%) you'll get a single card from the slot above but in traditional foil (using the same breakdown in variants and rarities)

• 1 Traditional foil double-sided token 

Commander Decks

Each Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander deck contains the following:

• 1 Ready-to-play 100-card Commander deck with:

  • 1 Traditional foil face commander with borderless art

  • 1 Traditional foil featured commander with borderless art

  • 10 New-to-Magic cards

• 10 Schemes for the Archenemy format 

• 10 Double-sided tokens

• 1 Collector Booster Sample Pack

• 1 Deck box

Bundle

Each Duskmourn: House of Horror Bundle contains the following: 

• 9 Duskmourn: House of Horror Play Boosters 

• 1 Traditional foil alternate-art card 

• 30 Land cards 

  • 5 Full-art traditional foil manor Basic lands 

  • 5 Full-art nonfoil manor Basic lands 

  • 10 Traditional foil Basic lands 

  • 10 Nonfoil Basic lands 

• 1 Spindown die

• 1 Deck box

Nightmare Bundle

The Nightmare Bundle releases October 18th.

Each Duskmourn: House of Horror Nightmare Bundle contains the following: 

• 6 Duskmourn: House of Horror Play Boosters 

• 2 Duskmourn: House of Horror Collector Boosters 

• 20 Traditional foil full-art lands 

  • 4 Full-art manor lands of each basic land type 

• 1 of 3 Borderless promo cards 

• 1 of 3 Movie poster–themed cards 

• 3 Double-sided movie posters 

• 1 Glow-in-the-dark spindown die 

• 1 Deck box 

Prerelease Kits

Each Duskmourn: House of Horror Prerelease Pack contains the following: 

• 6 Duskmourn: House of Horror Play Boosters 

• 1 Traditional foil year-stamped rare or mythic rare 

• 1 Magic: The Gathering Arena code card; only available in select regions 

• 1 Deck box 

• 1 Spindown die (from among five total color versions)

Booster Fun

Double Exposure Cards

This spooky treatment appears on select Legendary cards in the set and pays homage to horror photography. This special treatment appears in both Play and Collector Boosters.

 Textured Foil Double Exposure Cards

This special version of the Double Exposure cards appears exclusively in Collector Boosters.

Japan Showcase

This incredible new card style is debuting with Duskmourn, and features card art from traditional Japanese artists and illustrators. These breathtaking cards will feature traditional foil treatments and a brand-new Fractured Foil treatment! Available exclusively in Collector’s boosters, these cards will appear in both English and Japanese, with the English version being more common.

Mirror Monsters

Available in both Play and Collector boosters, Mirror Monster cards feature a hyper-stylized borderless version of cards from the set.

Paranormal Frames

Appearing in both Play and Collector boosters, Paranormal Frames have a retro-tech style artwork sure to bring chills to any classic horror fan!

Lurking Evil

Some cards in Duskmourn: House of Horror have alternate artwork (and collector numbers) from their main set counterparts that contain a monster of Duskmourn lingering in the background. Can you spot it?

Gamers XP Prerelease Events

Excited yet? Check out our Prerelease Event schedule below and join us on September 20th to dive into all of this set’s spooky fun!

Shreveport

Friday, September 20th at 7pm (Sealed) Register Now!

Saturday, September 21st at 12pm (Sealed) Register Now!

Saturday, September 21st at 5pm (2-Headed Giant Sealed) Register Now!

Benton

Friday, September 20th at 6pm (Sealed) Register Now!

Sunday, September 22nd at 1pm (Sealed) Register Now!