Davriel's Shadowfugue
Sorcery
Target player discards two cards and loses 2 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- War of the Spark
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #22981
Davriel's Shadowfugue makes an opponent discard two cards and you draw one for four mana at sorcery speed — that's a three-card swing that closes the gap between you and a loaded hand. The cost is real: four mana sorcery-speed means it does nothing the turn a threat lands, but the raw card advantage is hard to dismiss in black.
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, Davriel's Shadowfugue is a role-player in dedicated discard builds — the draw-one stapled onto the discard makes it more than a rattlesnake, giving you fuel while stripping an opponent's hand. Pauper is where it earns genuine respect: the common slot is starved for card advantage at this rate, and a three-card swing at common rarity is legitimately above the baseline. In Modern and Pioneer, four mana sorcery-speed discard is too slow against the threats those formats present, so it stays on the shelf. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient disruption, making Davriel's Shadowfugue irrelevant in those pools.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Davriel's Shadowfugue is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing else. It won't climb; discard spells at this power level don't hold speculative value, but a dime is a fine ask for what it does in the right Commander shell.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.