Dread Fugue
Sorcery
Cleave 
(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it [with mana value 2 or less]. That player discards that card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #20149
Dread Fugue strips a card from an opponent's hand and gives you the read on the rest — for one black mana with enlist to scale it up. It's a cheap, clean piece of hand disruption that earns its slot whenever you need to know what's coming.
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 |
In Commander, Dread Fugue is a low-investment way to pick apart a threat before it resolves — one mana to strip a noncreature, noncland card and map an opponent's hand is real information at a real discount. The enlist clause gives it a ceiling: attack with a large creature and the discard becomes a full mental note on everything that opponent is holding. In competitive black shells, it slots in as a cheap piece of interaction without eating meaningful resources. Legacy and Vintage have stricter discard benchmarks — Thoughtseize and Hymn to Tourach set a high bar — so Dread Fugue mostly lives in Commander and Pioneer, where the one-mana cost is harder to match.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Dread Fugue sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying almost nothing for genuinely playable discard. Bulk rares at this price point tend to hold or drift lower rather than spike, so there's no urgency to stock up, but picking up copies now costs less than a sleeve.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.