Haunted houses are a horror staple, but how do you do one in Magic: The Gathering, where a typical expansion represents an entire plane of existence? Duskmourn: House of Horror answers that by having a haunted house spread beyond its grounds to take over an entire world. The backstory has it that a kind of fear demon imprisoned within the bounds of a single mansion found a loophole, expanding the grounds until everyone on the plane of Duksmourn was trapped within.
Where Magic has done body horror in Phyrexia and gothic horror in the Innistrad sets, Duskmourn has more of a 1980s horror vibe, with VHS static and chainsaws—a new kind of terror in every room of its infinite house. Think of Stranger Things, Hellraiser, House of Leaves, and Stephen King's It, or videogames like Anatomy and MyHouse.wad. (There's a little Silent Hill in there as well, and Team Silent legend Masahiro Ito contributed card art.)
