Fear of Exposure
Enchantment Creature — Nightmare
As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap two untapped creatures and/or lands you control.
Trample
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #16811
Fear of Exposure enters as a 1/1 and blankets every opponent's creatures with -1/-1 as long as it stays on the board — a persistent soft board suppressant for one blue mana. Kona, Rescue Beastie decks run it because the effect stacks with other debuffs and the cost is negligible.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kona, Rescue Beastie
Kona, Rescue Beastie cares about small, cheap creatures entering play, and Fear of Exposure slots in as a one-drop that immediately pressures tokens and utility creatures across the table while triggering Kona's own cost-reduction and bounce loops.
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 Exposure is a role-player in blue creature-based strategies that want cheap bodies and passive debuffs — it won't win games alone, but it taxes go-wide token decks and turns opposing 1/1s into irrelevant blockers. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, a 1/1 for one blue that only reduces opponent power by one is far too low-impact to see real play when dedicated removal is cheaper and more reliable. Legacy and Vintage have enough efficient interaction that Fear of Exposure never reaches the battlefield in time to matter. Standard is its friendliest ground outside Commander, where limited card pools let persistent passive effects punch above their weight.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Fear of Exposure is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of without a second thought. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow roles rarely move in price, so don't expect this to climb.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.