Fear of Burning Alive card art

Fear of Burning Alive

Enchantment Creature — Nightmare MV 6

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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.

Decks running it 5
Games played 11
Win rate 45.5%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Eshki 1 7 57.1%
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 1 3 —
Mahadi, Emporium Master 1 1 —
Rakdos, Lord of Riots 1 0 —
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 3 decks
  • Mono-Red 1 deck

Fear of Burning Alive price history

The Duskmourn: House of Horror #135 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.23▼ $0.05 (17.9%)
Low $0.18 · High $0.32Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 27, 2026$0.23$0.35
Oct 26, 2026$0.23$0.35
Oct 24, 2026$0.21$0.35
Oct 23, 2026$0.19$0.34
Oct 22, 2026$0.21$0.34
Oct 21, 2026$0.19$0.34
Oct 19, 2026$0.20$0.34
Oct 18, 2026$0.19$0.33
Oct 17, 2026$0.20$0.33
Oct 14, 2026$0.18$0.34
Oct 12, 2026$0.19$0.33
Oct 11, 2026$0.18$0.32
Oct 10, 2026$0.19$0.31
Oct 9, 2026$0.21$0.32
Oct 7, 2026$0.24$0.32
Oct 6, 2026$0.27$0.32
Oct 5, 2026$0.28$0.32
Oct 2, 2026$0.29$0.33
Oct 1, 2026$0.32$0.34
Sep 30, 2026$0.30$0.34
Sep 29, 2026$0.30$0.32
Sep 28, 2026$0.28$0.32

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

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 publishes none for some of them.

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. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.