Fear of Burning Alive
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
Jump to section ▾
What it does
When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to each opponent.
Delirium — Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature deals that amount of damage to target creature that player controls.
Combos with Fear of Burning Alive
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Repercussion Infinite
- Near-infinite damage to one opponent
- Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer Ajani's Presence Infinite
- Infinite damage to one opponent
- Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer Deathless Angel Infinite
- Infinite damage to one opponent
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-09-20
If a source you control deals noncombat damage to multiple opponents simultaneously while there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, Fear of Burning Alive's last ability will trigger once for each opponent dealt noncombat damage this way.
- 2024-09-20
Fear of Burning Alive's last ability deals damage equal to the amount of noncombat damage dealt by the source that dealt damage to an opponent.
- 2024-09-20
Combat damage is the damage that's dealt automatically by attacking and blocking creatures. Any other damage is noncombat damage, even if it's dealt during a combat phase by an attacking or blocking creature.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Fear of Burning Alive, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eshki | 1 | 4 | — |
| Solphim, Mayhem Dominus | 1 | 3 | — |
| Mahadi, Emporium Master | 1 | 1 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Mono-Red 1 deck
Every version of Fear of Burning Alive
1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $0.30
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Fear of Burning Alive — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.