Reaper of Night // Harvest Fear
Creature — Specter // Sorcery — Adventure
Whenever this creature attacks, if defending player has two or fewer cards in hand, it gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #23286
Reaper of Night // Harvest Fear strips two cards from an opponent's hand the moment they drop below three cards — a real threat that closes late games where hands are already thin. The seven-mana front face is the tax, but Harvest Fear gives you a castable discard spell on turn four that can also reanimate a threat, which means the card earns its place even if the Reaper never attacks.
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, Reaper of Night // Harvest Fear finds its best home in black discard and reanimator strategies, where Harvest Fear does double duty as early disruption and a setup piece for the graveyard plan. The seven-drop body matters less in a 40-life format where games go long enough to cast it, and hitting two opponents on entry can strip crucial interaction at the right moment. In Pauper, where the commons baseline is high, Harvest Fear is a serviceable four-mana spell in reanimator shells, though the competition at that slot is stiff. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest — the cost-to-effect ratio doesn't survive contact with those formats. Pioneer is the one 60-card format where a budget reanimator shell could find marginal use for the adventure half, but even there it's fringe.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Reaper of Night // Harvest Fear is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a common box, not tracking it down. The price is unlikely to move; two-for-one adventure creatures at this power level don't spike, and supply is wide.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.