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Carnage, Crimson Chaos
Legendary Creature — Symbiote Villain
Trample When Carnage enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains "This creature attacks each combat if able" and "When this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it." Mayhem {B}{R}
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“Sacrifice aggro that reanimates your graveyard for free damage and value.”
Aggro
Intermediate
Combat damage, Sacrifice payoffs
Sacrifice, Aristocrats, Reanimator
Strategy
Carnage, Crimson Chaos is your ticket to a fast, aggressive sacrifice deck that turns your graveyard into a stream of expendable threats. When Carnage hits the board, you're immediately cheating out a small creature from your graveyard and forcing it to attack—essentially giving you a free 2-for-1 while filling the board. The real magic happens when those creatures deal damage and die, triggering your aristocrat effects and payoff cards that reward sacrifice.
Your gameplan revolves around filling your graveyard early with cheap creatures (through discard outlets, mill effects, or just playing them and letting them die), then using Carnage as a repeatable reanimation engine. Each creature that comes back swings, dies, and triggers cards like Zulaport Cutthroat, Impact Tremors, or Viscera Seer, creating a snowball of value. With Mayhem giving Carnage +1/+2 and card draw whenever creatures you control are sacrificed, you're drawing cards, pressuring opponents, and generating tempo all at once.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip the expensive tutors and mana rocks; use Dark Ritual, Pyretic Ritual, and Viscera Seer instead of pricey sacs. Budget creatures like Reassembling Skeleton and Zulaport Cutthroat do heavy lifting for <$2 each.
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