Fear of Death
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Enchanted creature gets -X/-0, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #22076
Fear of Death puts a Nightmare creature counter on any creature you control for two mana, and when that creature dies, you draw two cards — stapling a repeatable Divination to your sacrifice fodder. At two mana it's efficient enough to run in any black deck that expects to lose creatures, and the payoff is immediate the turn something dies.
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, Fear of Death earns its slot in any sacrifice-focused black deck — the two-card draw on a creature death trigger scales well across long games where card advantage decides who refills fastest. In Pauper, it's a legitimate card-draw engine at common rarity, and the two-mana enchantment slot is competitive enough that it sees real consideration in black midrange shells. Modern and Legacy move too fast for a setup piece that requires a creature to die before you see value, so Fear of Death sits firmly on the fringe there. Pioneer occupies a middle ground where it could support aristocrats-style strategies, though better draw options exist at the same cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Fear of Death is deep bulk — you're paying postage, not for the card. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price rarely appreciate unless a deck breaks them in a competitive format, and nothing on the horizon makes that likely here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.