First printed in Duskmourn: House of Horror (2024)

Violent Urge

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, that creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Rage can be a potent antidote to fear.

Illustrated by: Mirko Failoni

Legality

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

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Modern In 469 of 9400 decks (5.0%), most in Prowess

Modern metagame

Staple: main deck, 5% of decks (#132) (last 120 days)

Share of decks

5.0%

▲ 0.7 vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

476

466 main, 16 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.7

in the main deck

Win rate

64%

69 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	5.3%
17 Aug	5.4%
24 Aug	6.1%
31 Aug	6.0%
7 Sep	6.7%
14 Sep	5.9%
21 Sep	6.2%
28 Sep	5.7%
5 Oct	3.2%
12 Oct	2.7%
19 Oct	3.5%
26 Oct	2.6%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Prowess	8.6%	57%
Moonshadow	4.3%	2%
BR (unclassified)	0.4%	5%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Lightning Bolt	100%	4.5
Dragon's Rage Channeler	98%	10.2
Mishra's Bauble	98%	4.6
Lava Dart	98%	11.0
Cori-Steel Cutter	98%	10.4
Preordain	98%	6.4
Steam Vents	98%	3.5
Mutagenic Growth	98%	13.4
Expressive Iteration	98%	11.9
Thundering Falls	97%	4.6

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
Prowess Michael Puchkov in Merlion Modern Invitational 3	6-0 100%
Prowess Sven745 in Modern Challenge 96	10-1 91%
Prowess O_danielakos in Modern Challenge 32	9-1 90%
Prowess simoneromarm in Modern Challenge 96	9-1 90%
Prowess Special_Boy in Modern Challenge 64	9-1 90%
Prowess simoneromarm in Modern Challenge 96	9-1 90%
Prowess MdvWin in Modern Challenge 64	9-1 90%
Prowess bananadisaster in Modern Challenge 64	9-1 90%

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

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Prowess O_danielakos, 31 Oct	2 main	#1 (top 8) of 66 9-1
Prowess therock988, 31 Oct	1 main	#6 (top 8) of 66 6-2
Prowess bayjen_, 31 Oct	2 main	#27 of 52 3-3
Prowess JPA93, 30 Oct	1 main	#12 of 58 4-2
Prowess mattygaddy8, 30 Oct	1 main	5-0
Prowess jtl005, 28 Oct	1 main	#17 of 57 4-2
Prowess Marlin583, 28 Oct	2 main	#16 of 55 4-2
Prowess sedotwc, 27 Oct	2 main	#2 (top 8) of 24 6-2

Standard In 12 of 4360 decks (0.3%), most in BRG (unclassified)

Standard metagame

Share of decks

0.3%

▼ 0.7 vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

12 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

2.7

in the main deck

Win rate

54%

0 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	0.6%
17 Aug	0.8%
24 Aug	0.0%
31 Aug	0.3%
7 Sep	0.3%
14 Sep	0.3%
21 Sep	0.0%
28 Sep	0.0%
5 Oct	0.2%
12 Oct	0.0%
19 Oct	0.0%
26 Oct	0.9%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
BRG (unclassified)	7.5%	0%
URG (unclassified)	1.0%	2%
WRG (unclassified)	0.8%	6%
RG (unclassified)	0.4%	37%
WBRG (unclassified)	0.0%	50%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Stomping Ground	100%	11.0
Wildfire Wickerfolk	92%	285.6
Patchwork Beastie	92%	285.6
Fear of Missing Out	92%	166.6
Break Out	92%	102.5
Thornspire Verge	92%	53.3
Keen-Eyed Curator	75%	10.1
Rapid Rescue	67%	67.6
Tersa Lightshatter	67%	19.5
Overprotect	58%	318.1

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
WRG Jedermann in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
WBRG bin0013 in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%
RG PJKP in Standard Challenge 16	3-2 60%
RG PJKP in Standard Challenge 32	4-3 57%
RG ultrajelle in Standard Challenge 32	4-3 57%
RG taldoitalo in Standard Challenge 32	3-3 50%
RG SrLukas in Standard Challenge 32	1-4 20%

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

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
RG PJKP, 28 Oct	3 main	#9 of 30 3-2
RG PJKP, 27 Oct	3 main	#19 of 77 4-3
BRG Arena ranked player, 12 Oct	2 main
WRG Jedermann, 15 Sep	1 main	#10 of 59 4-2
URG Zihao Wang, 13 Sep	1 main
RG Arena ranked player, 7 Sep	4 main
WRG pigeon-, 19 Aug	1 main	5-0
RG ultrajelle, 18 Aug	4 main	#21 of 66 4-3

Pioneer In 2 of 2068 decks (0.1%), most in BRG (unclassified)

Pioneer metagame

Share of decks

0.1%

▲ 0.1 vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

2 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

4.0

in the main deck

Win rate

45%

1 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	0.0%
17 Aug	0.0%
24 Aug	0.0%
31 Aug	0.0%
7 Sep	0.0%
14 Sep	0.0%
21 Sep	0.0%
28 Sep	0.0%
5 Oct	0.0%
12 Oct	0.0%
19 Oct	1.2%
26 Oct	0.0%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
BRG (unclassified)	2.8%	3%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

Deck	Record
BRG Univerce in Pioneer Challenge 16	3-3 50%
BRG Shadowz2005 in Pioneer Challenge 16	2-3 40%

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

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
BRG Shadowz2005, 25 Oct	4 main	#20 of 30 2-3
BRG Univerce, 24 Oct	4 main	#7 (top 8) of 27 3-3

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Violent Urge in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK), Premier Draft	53.0%	-1.5	-1.3	22179
Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK), Sealed	52.1%	-3.7	-1.9	994

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen