Fear of Being Hunted
Enchantment Creature — Nightmare
Haste
This creature must be blocked if able.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #16235
Fear of Being Hunted puts a 3/3 Elk token into play every time a creature you control attacks alone — repeatable, no mana required, just swing. At five mana for a 2/2 body, the rate is modest, but the engine it enables in go-wide or raid-adjacent strategies is the entire point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
General Marhault Elsdragon
General Marhault Elsdragon rewards attacking with one creature at a time, and Fear of Being Hunted turns every one of those solo swings into a free 3/3 Elk token — the card is essentially a second payoff stapled to the same attack trigger that defines the whole deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fear of Being Hunted slots cleanly into any Gruul or Naya deck that wants to attack in waves and build a board without spending cards — the token generation is passive and cumulative, which matters in a 40-life format where incremental advantage compounds. Competitive formats like Modern and Pioneer have little patience for a five-mana 2/2 that doesn't immediately close a game, so Fear of Being Hunted won't find a home there outside of niche casual builds. Legacy and Vintage set the bar even higher; the card is legal but irrelevant at those power levels. Standard is where it has the most realistic non-Commander application if an aggressive token or raid shell exists in the current meta to support it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Fear of Being Hunted is pure bulk — buy a copy without thinking about it. Bulk rares at this price point don't typically recover value unless a format-warping deck adopts them, and nothing on the horizon suggests that trajectory here.
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Sources
Mentioned
- General Marhault Elsdragon
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.