MTG’s most frustrating Commander has the bleakest survival story

“The House is the world, the world is the House, and the word for both is Duskmourn, the grief of the sun slipping out of your hands, the coming of the cold and sorrow.” This is the way that acclaimed author Mira Grant describes Duskmourn, the plane at the center of Magic: The Gathering’s 2024 set Duskmourn: House of Horror. Duskmourn was once a modern-looking plane in the multiverse. The demon Valgavoth was once imprisoned in a haunted house, but he expanded the boundaries of the space until it consumed everything in existence. Now, the entire plane — and Magic set — is full of monsters, cultists, and murderers inspired by real-world events from the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s.