Panic Attack
Sorcery
Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2010
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24577
Panic Attack makes up to four blockers sit down for a turn, letting an aggressive red deck push through a board stall for lethal. Three mana at sorcery speed for a conditional, temporary effect is a bad rate — token swarm decks and combat-centric strategies have better options.
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, Panic Attack is too narrow: it hits at most four creatures, does nothing at instant speed, and evaporates at end of turn, so it rarely generates the damage needed to matter at a four-player table. Pauper is its most viable home, where aggressive red decks can aim it at a single blocker to close a game on turns three or four — though even there it competes with strictly better options. Across Legacy, Vintage, and Modern it's unplayed, outclassed by effects that either affect the whole board or cost less mana. Panic Attack is a limited card that never made the jump to constructed relevance.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Panic Attack is deep bulk — the kind of card that appears in a collection binder and stays there. There's no demand driver that would push the price up, so treat it as a throw-in, not a pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.