First printed in Torment (2002)

Petradon

Creature — Nightmare Beast

When this creature enters, exile two target lands.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owners' control.
Red : This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

5/6

Illustrated by: Jim Nelson

Legality

Legal in: Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Oathbreaker
Not legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl

Prices

MTGO price: 0.2 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Premodern In 4 of 2456 decks (0.2%), most in WUBRG (unclassified)

Premodern metagame

Share of decks

0.2%

▼ 0.1 vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

4 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

3.5

in the main deck

Win rate

40%

0 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	0.5%
17 Aug	0.0%
24 Aug	0.0%
31 Aug	0.6%
7 Sep	0.0%
14 Sep	0.0%
21 Sep	0.0%
28 Sep	0.4%
5 Oct	0.0%
12 Oct	0.0%
19 Oct	0.0%
26 Oct	0.7%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
WUBRG (unclassified)	1.2%	10%
WBRG (unclassified)	0.3%	13%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Life // Death	100%	164.4
Putrid Imp	100%	145.1
Exhume	100%	117.4
Reanimate	100%	48.4
Akroma, Angel of Wrath	100%	19.9
Dark Ritual	100%	12.6
Cabal Therapy	100%	5.7
Lotus Petal	75%	25.7
Animate Dead	75%	19.1
Sickening Dreams	75%	18.7

Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Best win rate

Deck	Record
WBRG GhostPattern in Premodern Challenge 16	2-3 40%

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
WBRG GhostPattern, 30 Oct	4 main	#15 of 24 2-3
WUBRG Di GREGORIO Nicolas, 4 Oct	4 main	#9 of 17 2-2
WUBRG heavyplayed, 3 Sep	4 main	5-0
WUBRG Bolas299, 15 Aug	2 main	#25 of 37 2-1