Midnight Mayhem
Sorcery
Create three 1/1 red Gremlin creature tokens. Gremlins you control gain menace, lifelink, and haste until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #13981
Midnight Mayhem puts a repeatable drain-and-gain engine on the board — each time Arabella, Abandoned Doll triggers, you're stacking life loss on opponents and life gain for yourself in the same motion. The cost is that the effect lives on an enchantment rather than a body, so it trades somewhat poorly against enchantment removal, but the upside justifies the slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
Arabella, Abandoned Doll already punishes opponents whenever you gain life, and Midnight Mayhem turns every one of those triggers into additional life gain — feeding a loop that snowballs faster than either card does alone.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Midnight Mayhem is a Commander card through and through — the life-drain payoff scales with four opponents, and the incremental gain compounds over a long game in ways that don't translate to 1v1 formats. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a three-mana enchantment that drains one life per trigger is simply too slow and too conditional to see play. Standard legality doesn't change that math. Commander is where the card belongs, specifically in life-gain or aristocrats shells where triggers fire multiple times per turn.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Midnight Mayhem is deep bulk — no financial downside to picking up a copy or four. Bulk enchantments with narrow synergy homes rarely climb in price, so don't expect this one to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.