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Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos
Price
$7.47
EDHREC rank
#1737
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Drivnod, Carnage Dominus card art
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus doubles every death trigger in black — every Pitiless Plunderer treasure, every Ratadrabik of Urborg token, every drain effect fires twice the moment Drivnod hits the board. The cost is five mana and mono-black, which means it slots cleanly into any black creature-death shell that can reach the mid-game.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ratadrabik of Urborg

Ratadrabik of Urborg

57.3% of decks · synergy 0.50

Ratadrabik of Urborg creates token copies of legendary creatures when they die, and Drivnod, Carnage Dominus doubles that trigger — every legendary that dies produces two tokens instead of one, turning incremental value into a runaway engine.

02
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

48.8% of decks · synergy 0.41

Massacre Girl, Known Killer rewards you whenever creatures die with -1/-1 counters and death triggers, and Drivnod, Carnage Dominus doubles each of those payoffs so a single board wipe cascades into twice the resource generation.

03
Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

46.1% of decks · synergy 0.39

Teysa Karlov already doubles death triggers for white and black creatures, and stacking Drivnod, Carnage Dominus on top means those same triggers fire four times — the combination is the core reason Drivnod appears in nearly half of all Teysa lists.

04
Bane, Lord of Darkness

Bane, Lord of Darkness

34.2% of decks · synergy 0.34

Bane, Lord of Darkness forces sacrifice and capitalizes on creatures dying, and Drivnod, Carnage Dominus ensures every death that Bane engineers pays out twice in whatever death-trigger currency the deck is running.

05

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

39.0% of decks · synergy 0.32

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER accrues power through combat and creature deaths, and Drivnod, Carnage Dominus amplifies each death-based payoff so the deck reaches its damage thresholds and resource milestones faster.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Drivnod, Carnage Dominus earns a consistent slot — death-trigger engines in 100-card singleton decks are numerous enough that doubling them is a build-around, not a corner case. In competitive Commander pods, five mana for a passive doubler is on the slower side, but the ceiling when it sticks is high enough that most black creature-death decks want it. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer it's legal but sees essentially no play; the effect is too slow and too dependent on other pieces to survive in a field of interaction-heavy two-player games. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster combo infrastructure that makes this kind of incremental doubler irrelevant.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No single card fully replicates what Drivnod, Carnage Dominus does, but Teysa Karlov covers a large portion of the same ground at a lower price point — the catch is that Teysa only doubles triggers for white and black creatures and occupies the command zone rather than the 99. Dark Prophecy and Zulaport Cutthroat don't replicate the doubling mechanic but serve as redundant death-trigger payoffs in decks that can't afford to run Drivnod, trading the explosive upside for more modest, consistent value.

Price Context

Current price

$7.47 mid tier

At $7.47, Drivnod, Carnage Dominus sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a considered purchase, cheap enough that it belongs in any deck that genuinely wants it. Given its 57% inclusion rate in Ratadrabik lists and near-half inclusion across multiple high-volume commanders, that price reflects real demand and is unlikely to soften much.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.