Suffocating Fumes
Instant
Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #14088
Suffocating Fumes gives all creatures -1/-1 until end of turn and cycles for one mana when you don't need the effect — that combination of flexibility and board impact for a single black mana is the whole sell. In Maha, Its Feathers Night builds it's essentially a free spell that simultaneously clears tokens and replaces itself, which is a rate most dedicated sweepers can't match.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Maha, Its Feathers Night
Maha, Its Feathers Night cares about cards cycling and being discarded, so Suffocating Fumes earns its slot twice over — it either wipes a token board when the situation demands it or cycles away to trigger Maha's engine when it doesn't.
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, Suffocating Fumes is a role-player rather than a staple — the -1/-1 effect is too small to clean up most threats at a four-player table, but the free cycling makes it a live draw at virtually any point in the game. Pauper is where it genuinely competes, since the common card pool is full of X/1 creatures and the cycling cost keeps it from being a dead card in control mirrors. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, dedicated sweepers and more efficient interaction outclass it, but the cycle mode means it's never actively embarrassing to run in decks built around graveyard or cycling payoffs. Vintage has better options in every direction and the card sees no meaningful play there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Suffocating Fumes is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk cycling pieces rarely spike unless a new commander or synergy card pushes the archetype into the mainstream, so don't expect price movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.