Carnage, Crimson Chaos card art

Carnage, Crimson Chaos

Legendary Creature — Symbiote Villain MV 4

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What it does

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

Combos with Carnage, Crimson Chaos

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Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-09-19

    Mayhem represents an alternative cost that can be paid to cast a spell from your graveyard if you discarded the card with mayhem that turn. You must pay any additional costs the spell has.

  • 2025-09-19

    If the returned creature can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped or having come under your control that turn), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, you're not forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.

  • 2025-09-19

    If a card in a graveyard has X in its mana cost, X is 0 when determining its mana value.

  • 2025-09-19

    You must follow all normal timing rules when casting a spell with mayhem. For example, you can't cast a creature card with mayhem you couldn't normally cast during an opponent's turn, even if you discard that card during an opponent's turn.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Carnage, Crimson Chaos, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Typhoid Mary, Fractured 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 1 deck

Every version of Carnage, Crimson Chaos

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Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.