First printed in Torment (2002)

All 3 prints

Premium Deck Series: Graveborn (PD3) #18, 2011
World Championship Decks 2003 (WC03) #pk83sb, 2003
Torment (TOR) #83, 2002

Sickening Dreams

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

The Patriarch dreams of vile plague.

Illustrated by: Scott M. Fischer

Legality

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

Prices

MTGO price: 1.19 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Combos

1 combo:

Near-infinite damage: Ad Nauseam + Angel's Grace + Sickening Dreams

Premodern In 23 of 666 decks (3.5%), most in Psychatog

Staple: main deck, 4% of decks (#146)

Share of decks

3.6%

▼ 1.4 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

24 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.8

in the main deck

Win rate

58%

7 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Psychatog	2.7%	94%
WUBRG (unclassified)	0.9%	17%
UB (unclassified)	0.6%	50%
WBG (unclassified)	0.6%	25%
Contamination	0.5%	33%
UBR (unclassified)	0.2%	100%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Duress	96%	4.3
Smother	92%	5.5
Polluted Delta	88%	21.1
Accumulated Knowledge	88%	12.1
Psychatog	88%	8.8
Foil	88%	5.9
Portent	88%	5.8
Gush	88%	5.7
Counterspell	88%	4.2
Underground River	83%	12.5

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Psychatog Beicodegeia in Premodern Challenge 16	6-2 75%
Psychatog Beicodegeia in Premodern Challenge 16	4-2 67%
Psychatog Beicodegeia in Premodern Challenge 16	4-2 67%
Psychatog Beicodegeia in Premodern Challenge 16	4-2 67%
UB mysteryman21 in Premodern Challenge 16	3-2 60%
Psychatog Beicodegeia in Premodern Challenge 16	3-2 60%
Psychatog DeathFromSnuSnu in Premodern Challenge 16	3-2 60%
Psychatog Beicodegeia in Premodern Challenge 16	4-3 57%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Contamination Lagerbon, 30 Oct	1 main	#5 (top 8) of 24 3-3
Psychatog Beicodegeia, 27 Oct	2 main	#26 of 27 0-2
Psychatog Furnace_Scamp, 25 Oct	2 main	5-0
UB mysteryman21, 23 Oct	1 main	#10 of 24 3-2
Psychatog Beicodegeia, 22 Oct	2 main	#2 (top 8) of 24 6-2
Psychatog Magic_Wombat, 22 Oct	2 main	5-0
Psychatog Beicodegeia, 20 Oct	2 main	#11 of 24 3-2
Psychatog Stud, 20 Oct	3 main	5-0

Commander In 5 of 5718 decks (0.1%), most in Thrasios, Triton Hero + Tymna the Weaver

Share of decks

0.1%

▲ 0.1 vs previous 30 days