Chill of Foreboding
Sorcery
Each player mills five cards.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #19533
Chill of Foreboding mills five cards from each opponent for two mana — and if you have the patience to flash it back four times, it can end games outright. The ceiling is real, but the floor is a slow sorcery that requires graveyard synergy to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Chill of Foreboding is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer math means one cast mills fifteen to twenty cards across the table, and each flashback copy multiplies that pressure. In dedicated mill or self-mill builds, the recursive loop of four flashback copies is a legitimate win condition rather than a cute threat. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; faster, more targeted graveyard tools exist and no competitive shell wants a slow sorcery with a four-cast setup. Modern is the same story — the format has moved past this kind of incremental mill entirely.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Chill of Foreboding is deep bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Bulk rares with niche Commander applications tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no risk either way.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.