Card
Carnage, Crimson Chaos
Mana cost {2}{B}{R}
Legendary Creature — Symbiote Villain 4/3
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}
Part of 141 known combos, 4 of them two-card. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · SPM · #125
- Cheapest printing
- €0.50
- EDHREC salt
- 0.51
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- Mayhem, Trample
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Phantasmal Image, Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore, Flesh Duplicate, Deceptive Frostkite
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Phantasmal Image, Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore, Flesh Duplicate, Deceptive Frostkite
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Phantasmal Image, Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore, Flesh Duplicate, Deceptive Frostkite (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
141 known combos, 4 of them two-card.
- Carnage, Crimson Chaos + Phantasmal Image
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Carnage, Crimson Chaos + Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Carnage, Crimson Chaos + Flesh Duplicate
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
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 · Wizards of the Coast
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 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 when determining its mana value. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
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: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast