Uncomfortable Chill
Instant
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 until end of turn.
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24261
Uncomfortable Chill taps all creatures an opponent controls and replaces itself with a card draw — it's a one-sided pseudo-fog that cantrips. Two mana for that effect is acceptable, but it's a tempo play, not a threat, and it doesn't belong outside blue decks that specifically want to stall combat.
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 |
Uncomfortable Chill is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it comes closest to relevance — blue tempo and control shells there can use the cantrip to cycle through the deck while buying a turn against aggressive boards. In Commander, the effect is too narrow: tapping one player's creatures does nothing about the other two opponents, and a three-player table punishes you for tapping out on their end step anyway. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, faster and more decisive interaction crowds it out entirely; no competitive deck is registering Uncomfortable Chill when Fog effects that matter are free or attached to permanents.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Uncomfortable Chill is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no meaningful ceiling here; it won't appreciate, and the only reason to pick one up is because you specifically want the effect in a pauper or casual build.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.