Dread of Night
Enchantment
White creatures get -1/-1.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #25536
Dread of Night permanently shrinks every white and green creature your opponents control by -1/-1 for a single black mana — no activation, no upkeep, just a standing tax on the most-played colors in Commander. It blanks tokens, kills utility creatures outright, and shuts down Darien, King of Kjeldor's entire gameplan by making the damage-to-tokens math collapse.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dread of Night is a one-mana enchantment that does real work in nearly every game — white and green are the format's most popular colors, so the -1/-1 rarely blanks on a table. Legacy and Vintage are the only other formats where it's legal, and neither has much use for it given the speed of those formats and the scarcity of white/green creature strategies that care about a one-point stat reduction. Commander is where Dread of Night earns its slot, specifically in black decks that want to tax creature-light opponents or neuter token strategies without spending removal on each threat individually.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Darien, King of KjeldorSanguinary PriestDread of Night
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB
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Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Dread of Night sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or in a collection purchase. Its niche application keeps demand low enough that the price is unlikely to spike, but for the decks that want it, the cost-to-impact ratio is hard to beat.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.