Fascination
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Each player draws X cards.
• Each player mills X cards.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fate Reforged
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #7934
Fascination puts X cards into every opponent's hand or X cards into every graveyard — your call at cast time, and that flexibility is the whole card. The cost is real: at XUU with no upside beyond the base effect, it loses ground to sorceries that do one thing better, so it earns its slot only when the group-hug or mill angle is intentional. Heliod, the Radiant Dawn decks recur it as an enchantment, which is where Fascination stops being filler and starts being a repeatable engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn can return Fascination from the graveyard to hand, turning a one-shot X-spell into a recurring draw or mill engine that scales with available mana each turn cycle.
Kami of the Crescent Moon
Kami of the Crescent Moon already taxes opponents with group draw, so Fascination fits as an on-demand amplifier — spend X to flood the table with cards and accelerate the chaos Kami wants to create.
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 |
Fascination is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice. In 60-card formats the variable cost and symmetrical effect are both liabilities — you're paying UU plus X for something opponents benefit from, and competitive Legacy and Modern have no interest in that trade. Commander is where the symmetry becomes a feature rather than a bug: four opponents drawing cards generates political goodwill, and four opponents milling simultaneously can close games in dedicated self-mill or graveyard-hate shells. The mill mode is particularly relevant in multiplayer, since X cards hitting each of three or four graveyards adds up faster than the mana investment suggests.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Fascination is deep bulk — a throw-in card that costs almost nothing to include. That price is stable floor territory; there's no meaningful reprint risk for a card with this low a ceiling, and casual demand keeps it from hitting zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Heliod, the Radiant Dawn
- Kami of the Crescent Moon
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.