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Mayhem Devil

Creature — Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Promo
Price
$1.32
EDHREC rank
#577
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Mayhem Devil card art
Mayhem Devil turns every sacrifice — yours or your opponents' — into a free, targeted ping, and three mana is a steal for that kind of passive damage output. It's a staple in any Rakdos shell that moves permanents through a bin, and commanders like Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin and Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce treat it as a core piece rather than a flex slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed NavigatorVial Smasher the Fierce

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce

64.1% of decks · synergy 0.62

The Pirate-sacrifice shell generates treasure and expendable bodies constantly, and Mayhem Devil converts every sacrifice trigger in the Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce engine into direct damage that scales with how busy the table gets.

02
Malik, Grim Manipulator

Malik, Grim Manipulator

66.1% of decks · synergy 0.58

Malik, Grim Manipulator forces opponents to sacrifice their own creatures, and Mayhem Devil fires on every one of those triggers — the two cards form a punishment loop where opponents lose creatures and life simultaneously.

03
Dargo, the ShipwreckerTymna the Weaver

Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver

62.8% of decks · synergy 0.55

Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver repeatedly sacrifices artifacts and creatures to recast Dargo cheaply, and Mayhem Devil tags each sacrifice as a free ping, adding a damage clock to what would otherwise be a pure combat deck.

04
Juri, Master of the Revue

Juri, Master of the Revue

75.3% of decks · synergy 0.51

Juri, Master of the Revue grows on every sacrifice and threatens a lethal swing, and Mayhem Devil stacks a parallel damage stream on top — opponents have to answer both threats or lose to the combination.

05
Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

59.2% of decks · synergy 0.51

Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter produces a constant flow of artifact tokens to sacrifice for value, and Mayhem Devil turns that token churn into a steady ping engine that pressures life totals without any additional investment.

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 where Mayhem Devil earns its reputation — a multiplayer table means three opponents' worth of sacrifice triggers, and the damage adds up fast in a format full of fetch effects, token decks, and aristocrats lines. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in dedicated sacrifice shells alongside Cauldron Familiar and Witch's Oven, where the ping-on-sacrifice trigger is a win condition rather than incidental value. Legacy has enough faster, more broken things happening that Mayhem Devil rarely makes the cut. Oathbreaker can support it in the right Rakdos shell, though the 20-life starting total compresses the window for its damage to matter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.32 cheap tier

At $1.32, Mayhem Devil sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to auto-include in any Rakdos sacrifice build without a second thought. The price reflects wide supply more than low demand; it's a consistent include across thousands of decks and unlikely to drop further.

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