What is the set code for Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos?

The set code for Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos is PDSK. It contains 160 cards and covers the various alternate-art, stamped, retro-frame, and event promo cards tied to the Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) release in September–October 2024.

How do I get the Duskmourn prerelease promo card?

The Duskmourn prerelease promo is a stamped rare or mythic rare from the Duskmourn: House of Horror set. It isn't a fixed card — any rare or mythic from DSK can appear as a stamped promo. Prereleases ran September 20–26, 2024, at local game stores.

What are the Duskmourn Store Championship promo cards?

Store Championship promos for Duskmourn ran October 12, 2024 through January 5, 2025. Participation earned a Chromatic Sphere, Top 8 finishers received a Reality Smasher, and the winner received a full-art textless Void Winnower.

What is in the Duskmourn Nightmare Edition Bundle?

The Nightmare Edition Bundle (released October 18, 2024) contains two Collector Boosters, six Play Boosters, foil full-art Manor Lands, a glow-in-the-dark spindown life counter, a Movie Poster card, three double-sided movie posters, 1 of 3 Borderless promo cards (Crypt Ghast, Damn, or Exhume with new flavor text), and 1 of 3 Movie Poster–themed cards (Archon of Cruelty, Goryo's Vengeance, or Living Death).

What are the Japan Showcase cards in Duskmourn?

Japan Showcase cards (DSK #386–405) are ten Collector Booster-exclusive cards reimagined by Japanese artists with a special frame honoring Japanese hobby shop culture. They come as pairs: each 'Enduring' enchantment is paired with its matching Overlord creature across all five colors. They appear in roughly 1 in 10 Collector Boosters, in either traditional foil or fracture foil.

What are the Special Guest cards in Duskmourn: House of Horror?

Duskmourn features 10 Special Guests (SPG #64–73): Hallowed Haunting, Soul Warden, Expropriate, Phantasmal Image, Damnation, Sacrifice, Maddening Hex, Unholy Heat, Collected Company, and Noxious Revival. You'll find a non-foil copy in approximately 1 out of every 64 Play Boosters, and they can be used in Limited play.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos (PDSK) Guide

If you've been hunting down every variant of one of Magic's most atmospheric recent sets, Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos (set code PDSK) is where the collectible side of the Duskmourn release lives. This 160-card promo set gathers the alternate-art cards, stamped rares, retro-frame treatments, and event prizes tied to Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK), which released on MTG Arena on September 24, 2024, with paper prereleases running September 20-26, 2024.

DSK itself is a horror-themed standalone set set on the plane of Duskmourn - essentially a sentient haunted house of cosmic scale - and the promo treatments lean hard into that aesthetic. Whether you're chasing a foil Store Championship prize or a Japan Showcase card reimagined by a Japanese illustrator, this guide covers where each promo comes from and what makes it special.

Themes and setting of Duskmourn

Before diving into the promos themselves, it's worth a quick look at what makes Duskmourn tick, because the set's horror identity shapes a lot of the promo art choices.

Duskmourn is Magic's love letter to horror cinema. The plane is the haunted house - a sprawling, impossible structure that is itself a malevolent entity. The set's creative team drew on decades of genre touchstones:

Slasher films inspired the Razorkin creature type - think Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface. Unstoppable Slasher is the obvious nod.
Possessed dolls (Chucky from Child's Play) underpin the Toys subtheme.
The Wicker Man likely inspired the Wickerfolk, particularly the Swarmweaver with its swarm of man-eating bees.
Beetlejuice's Lydia Deetz was a reference point for Marina Vendrell's origin as a malcontented goth girl.
Valgavoth, the set's central horror, resembles "the Darkness" from House on Haunted Hill (1999).
Jump Scare is even a named mechanic - as clichéd and effective in cardboard as it is on screen.

That cultural richness makes the alternate-art promos feel intentional rather than decorative. When a card gets a new treatment in PDSK, it's usually doing something thematically resonant.

How to get Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos

PDSK cards aren't found in one place - they're spread across retail events, bundle products, and organized play. Here's a breakdown of every promo and how to acquire it.

Prerelease promos

The Prerelease ran September 20-26, 2024, at local game stores. Participants received a stamped rare or mythic rare pulled from the Duskmourn set - so the prerelease promo isn't a fixed card but any rare or mythic from DSK with a foil stamp. If you played at prerelease, you know the particular lottery-style excitement of cracking that stamped card.

Buy-a-Box promo

Purchasing a booster box of Duskmourn: House of Horror earned you an alternate-art Twitching Doll. Given the set's possessed-toy theme, this is a satisfying thematic choice for a buy-a-box treatment.

Bundle and Nightmare Bundle promos

The standard Duskmourn Bundle includes an alternate-art Grievous Wound as its promo card.

The Nightmare Edition Bundle - released October 18, 2024 - is the premium version, containing two Collector Boosters and six Play Boosters, foil full-art Manor Lands, a glow-in-the-dark spindown life counter, a Movie Poster card, and three double-sided movie posters. It also includes:

1 of 3 Borderless promo cards, each with new flavor text:
Crypt Ghast (DSK #368)
Damn (DSK #369)
Exhume (DSK #370)
1 of 3 Movie Poster-themed cards:
Archon of Cruelty (DSK #371)
Goryo's Vengeance (DSK #372)
Living Death (DSK #373) - the art and font deliberately reference the poster of The Evil Dead (1981)

The Movie Poster cards are a particular highlight for horror fans. Living Death wearing Evil Dead aesthetic is exactly the kind of cross-medium reference that makes Duskmourn feel like it was made by people who genuinely love the genre.

Open House promo

The "Open 'Haunted' House" event (November 1-3, 2024) gave out a retro-frame Night's Whisper. Retro frame treatments have become a beloved way to present reprints, and a black card draw spell in that treatment fits Duskmourn's gothic palette well.

Store Championship promos

Store Championships ran October 12, 2024 through January 5, 2025, with three tiers of prizing:

| Finish | Card | |---|---| | Participation | Chromatic Sphere | | Top 8 | Reality Smasher | | Winner | Full-art textless Void Winnower |

The winner's prize - a full-art, textless Void Winnower - is the kind of card that makes competitive players sit up. Void Winnower is already a striking card; stripping away the text box and giving it full art treatment turns it into something genuinely beautiful to sleeve up.

Commander Party promos

Commander Party events ran October 4-10 and November 1-7, 2024. Participants earned a retro-frame Crippling Fear - a fitting choice for a horror Commander event, thematically and mechanically.

Standard Showdown promos

Standard Showdown ran September 27 through November 7, 2024. The promo here is a standout: Disdainful Stroke featuring Cowboy Bebop crossover art. This is one of the more unexpected collaborations in the PDSK promo lineup, and I think it's delightful - the tonal whiplash between Bebop's jazzy sci-fi cool and Duskmourn's horror aesthetic is exactly the kind of weird corner of Magic worth celebrating. 😄

Friday Night Magic promos

FNM promos were available September 27 through November 1, 2024, at participating stores. Check with your local game store for which specific cards were distributed, as FNM promos can vary by region and store allocation.

Japan-only promos

Japanese players had access to two exclusive token promos tied to Play Booster pack purchases:

1/1 Toy token - available from retailers
Treasure token - available from convenience stores

These are regional exclusives and aren't typically available through standard international retail channels.

Special Guests in Duskmourn boosters

While not technically part of the PDSK set code, the Special Guests cards (SPG #64-73) are worth knowing about because they appear in Duskmourn Play Boosters and can be played in Limited games. You'll find a non-foil Special Guests card in roughly 1 out of every 64 Play Boosters, with traditional foil versions in Collector Boosters.

The ten Special Guests for Duskmourn are:

Hallowed Haunting
Soul Warden
Expropriate
Phantasmal Image
Damnation
Sacrifice
Maddening Hex
Unholy Heat
Collected Company
Noxious Revival

It's a list that leans into the horror plane's themes - reanimation, sacrifice, hexes, and ghostly imagery - while sneaking in some genuinely powerful reprints. Damnation, Collected Company, and Expropriate in particular are cards players are always happy to open.

Japan Showcase cards

Duskmourn introduced a new collectable treatment with the Japan Showcase cards (DSK #386-405), exclusive to Collector Boosters. Ten cards were reimagined by Japanese artists with a special frame that pays homage to Japanese hobby shop culture.

Unlike Special Guests, Japan Showcase cards use the standard DSK set code and expansion symbol. In non-Japanese Collector Boosters, they appear in English two-thirds of the time and Japanese one-third of the time. In Japanese Collector Boosters, they're always in Japanese. You'll find one in roughly 1 in 10 Collector Boosters (9% traditional foil, 1% fracture foil).

The ten Japan Showcase cards are paired by color identity:

| Card | Pair | |---|---| | Enduring Innocence | Overlord of the Mistmoors | | Enduring Curiosity | Overlord of the Floodpits | | Enduring Tenacity | Overlord of the Balemurk | | Enduring Courage | Overlord of the Boilerbilges | | Enduring Vitality | Overlord of the Hauntwoods |

The pairing of each "Enduring" enchantment with its corresponding Overlord creature is elegant - they represent Duskmourn's five-color mechanical structure, and the Japan Showcase treatment gives each pair a unified artistic vision.

Set legacy and context

Duskmourn: House of Horror is notable for a few reasons beyond its horror theme. It saw the return of Welcome Decks, last used during Core Set 2019 - a meaningful move toward bringing new players into the game at the local store level.

The promo program for PDSK is one of the more robust in recent memory, with distinct rewards at every level of engagement: casual Open House attendees, FNM regulars, Standard Showdown grinders, and Store Championship competitors all have something worth chasing. The Cowboy Bebop Disdainful Stroke and the Evil Dead-referencing Living Death Movie Poster card are the kinds of inclusions that reward players who pay attention to Magic's cultural references.

For collectors, the Nightmare Bundle is the headline product - glow-in-the-dark life counter, foil Manor Lands, and the chance at Movie Poster cards make it a genuinely distinctive collector's item rather than just a repackaged bundle.

Format check: Duskmourn: House of Horror is legal in Standard (as of its September 2024 release), as well as Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage. The promos themselves are legal in any format where the base card is legal - alternate art and retro frames don't affect legality.