Creeping Chill
Sorcery
Creeping Chill deals 3 damage to each opponent and you gain 3 life.
When Creeping Chill is put into your graveyard from your library, you may exile it. If you do, Creeping Chill deals 3 damage to each opponent and you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #19913
Creeping Chill drains three life and gains you three — effectively a six-point life swing — for free when milled, which is the only context where it matters. Cast from hand at four mana it's unplayable, but in any deck milling its own library it's a free Lightning Helix stapled to a mill trigger.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Creeping Chill is a mill-deck staple in Modern, where Dredge and mill-based strategies reliably hit it off the top and turn incidental self-mill into free damage. In Legacy and Vintage it sees fringe play for the same reason, though those formats have faster ways to close games. Pioneer mill decks run it as a redundant free trigger alongside Fractured Sanity lines. Commander is where Creeping Chill finds its widest audience — any self-mill commander from Sidisi, Brood Tyrant to Golgari graveyard piles treats it as a passive life-swing that requires zero mana investment once it hits the bin.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Creeping Chill is true bulk — easy to pick up in trade binders or as a throw-in. Demand is stable but narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new mill archetype breaks into a major format.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.