Face of Fear
Creature — Horror
, Discard a card: This creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #30563
Face of Fear gives a creature menace and fear until end of turn for two mana — both evasion types stacked on one activation makes it a reliable closer in black decks that go wide or tall. The cost is that it's a sorcery-speed, one-shot effect with no lasting board presence.
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 |
Commander is where Face of Fear actually sees play, slotting into black aggro and voltron builds that need a cheap, double-evasion push through a cluttered board. Legacy and Vintage are legal but have no interest — two mana for temporary evasion doesn't compete in those formats. Face of Fear is cleanly bulk in the 60-card formats where it's legal, and outright illegal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Face of Fear is pure bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it does a specific job cheaply. Bulk commons with niche Commander applications don't appreciate; treat it as a throw-in, not a pickup.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.