Fatal Attraction
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, it deals 2 damage to enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, this Aura deals 4 damage to enchanted creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27982
Fatal Attraction enchants a creature you don't control, forces it to attack each combat if able, and then destroys it at the beginning of the next end step — a two-turn removal spell that also threatens to crash the target into a blocker before it dies. The delay is the entire cost, and in Commander that window is usually survivable; in faster formats, waiting a full round to close the deal is often too slow.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fatal Attraction occupies the low end of acceptable removal — it kills what you point it at, but the one-turn delay means your opponent gets a farewell attack, which matters when a single combat step can swing a game. Pauper is where Fatal Attraction is most relevant competitively, since the common-only card pool thins out reliable enchantment removal and a guaranteed kill at two mana carries real weight. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but effectively invisible — those formats kill faster than Fatal Attraction can resolve its own trigger. Modern has better options at every price point, so there's no compelling case to run it there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Fatal Attraction is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it's the piece you need and it costs less than a sleeve. Bulk commons rarely move on price unless a format-breaking deck picks them up, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's happening here.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.