Clinging Mists
Instant
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, tap all attacking creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #18649
Clinging Mists taps all attacking creatures and prevents combat damage this turn — a one-sided fog that also locks down the board until your opponents' next untap. Three mana for that effect is fair, and the fateful hour clause bumping it to full untapped lockout makes it a genuine threat extender in white-green survival shells.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Clinging Mists earns its slot in decks that need to survive one more turn cycle — fog effects that also tap attacking creatures are rarer than plain combat prevention, and the residual tap effect matters when a player is swinging with a pumped board. In Pauper, it competes in the Skins or fog-chain combo space where sequencing fog effects to survive is a real strategy, though three mana makes it slower than Fog or Moment's Peace. Legacy and Vintage have access to every fog ever printed and the power level makes Clinging Mists unplayable in either format competitively. It's a Commander and Pauper card, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Clinging Mists is deep bulk — pick it up from a common box rather than ordering it individually. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a future commander pushes fateful hour or tap-on-block synergies into the spotlight.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.