Blinding Fog
Instant
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures this turn. Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #10439
Blinding Fog gives all your creatures hexproof and prevents all combat damage dealt to them this turn — a one-sided fog that also blankets your board against targeted removal on the stack. At three mana in green, it's a niche pickup but a real one for go-wide decks that need a combat blowout answer.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blinding Fog earns its slot almost exclusively in token or wide-board decks that need to survive a single pivotal combat step — it's too situational for midrange or combo lists that don't care about attacking. Pauper is the format where it has the most serious competition, since Fog effects are plentiful at common and the hexproof clause rarely matters in that removal-light format. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's outclassed by more efficient protection spells and sees no meaningful play. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: it's a fine combat trick in aggressive green builds, irrelevant elsewhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Blinding Fog is firmly bulk — you're paying for a slot, not a card. Price stability here is essentially guaranteed downward, not upward; there's no demand driver that lifts bulk commons.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.