Fog on the Barrow-Downs
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is a Spirit and can't attack or block. (It loses all other creature types.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #17270
Fog on the Barrow-Downs taps all creatures an opponent controls and keeps them tapped through their next untap step — a one-sided Glare of Subdual stapled to a Time Walk for their board. Three mana at instant speed is the cost, and for that price this effect is a steal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fog on the Barrow-Downs pulls double duty as a combat trick and a pseudo-removal spell, buying a full turn cycle against a player about to kill you. It's pauper-legal, and in that format its closest competition doesn't lock creatures through the untap step, which is the line that separates this from ordinary fog effects. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more permanent ways to deal with boards, so Fog on the Barrow-Downs is largely irrelevant there. The card is most at home in Commander and Pauper, where one-sided board stalls at instant speed are genuinely hard to find at this mana cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Fog on the Barrow-Downs is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking about it. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow effects rarely climb unless they find a combo home, so don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.