Fatal Fumes
Instant
Target creature gets -4/-2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28719
Fatal Fumes gives a creature -4/-4 until end of turn for four mana at sorcery speed — it kills most utility creatures but whiffs on anything with 5 or more toughness. At that price and timing, it's the last removal spell you should be sleeving.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fatal Fumes sits well below the bar — four mana at sorcery speed for a conditional -4/-4 effect competes against Doom Blade, Go for the Throat, and Path to Exile, all of which cost one mana and hit unconditionally at instant speed. Pauper is the only format where Fatal Fumes sees any daylight, since the commons-only card pool makes efficiency harder to find, though even there better options exist. In Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage, the card is technically legal and practically invisible — nobody is casting it when cheaper, faster answers dominate those formats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Fatal Fumes is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in bulk boxes at game stores rather than trade binders. That price reflects its playability ceiling accurately, and there's no realistic scenario where demand pushes it higher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.