Fevered Convulsions
Enchantment
: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.62
- EDHREC rank
- #20899
Fevered Convulsions lets you sink two mana and a counter into permanently shrinking a creature's power and toughness by one, with no cap on activations. The cost per activation is steep enough that this loses to direct removal in almost every scenario — paying incrementally to weaken something is rarely worth it when you could just kill it.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fevered Convulsions occupies an awkward position — it can theoretically grind down a blocker or shrink a commander's combat stats, but at two mana and a counter per -1/-1, you'll almost never out-pace the rate at which threats appear across three opponents. Legacy and Vintage are legal but have zero interest in this effect; both formats kill creatures faster and cheaper than Fevered Convulsions can degrade them. The card finds its best theoretical home in -1/-1 counter synergy builds, but even there, dedicated payoffs like persist creatures or Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons demand engines that actually generate counters at scale rather than spending mana to place one at a time.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.62 bulk tier
At $0.62, Fevered Convulsions sits in bulk territory, which accurately reflects its power level. Don't expect the price to move — there's no competitive demand and no Commander archetype applying enough pressure to push it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.