Fatal Blow
Instant
Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #23374
Fatal Blow destroys a creature that's already been dealt damage this turn — for one black mana, that's a two-card removal package that costs almost nothing on the mana side. The catch is the dependency: without a reliable way to ping first, Fatal Blow is a dead card in hand.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fatal Blow sits in a crowded field of unconditional one-mana black removal, and the condition here — target must have already been dealt damage — is a real liability at a table where you don't control the combat step. It earns a slot in decks running consistent pingers like Prodigal Sorcerer effects or commanders that deal incidental damage, but most black Commander decks would rather run Snuff Out or Deadly Rollick. Pauper is where Fatal Blow is most defensible: the format's creature-heavy gameplay and abundance of cheap pingers make the condition easier to satisfy, and the one-mana ceiling is genuinely competitive. Legacy and Vintage have access to better options at the same cost, so Fatal Blow won't see those tables.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Fatal Blow is bulk in the truest sense — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Conditional removal at this price tier doesn't hold value upward unless a dedicated archetype emerges, so treat it as a throw-in, not an acquisition target.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.