Fear of Burning Alive
Fear of Burning Alive: Enchantment Creature - Nightmare, Duskmourn: House of Horror. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{R}{R}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Enchantment Creature - Nightmare
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 135
- Artist
- J.P. Targete
- Commander rank
- 6,803 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Delirium
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About Fear of Burning Alive
Fear of Burning Alive is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon red enchantment creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK), an expansion set released in September 2024. It is collector number 135 in that set, with art by J.P. Targete. It costs {4}{R}{R} (four generic and two red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 4/4 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy and Gladiator. Duskmourn: House of Horror is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.22 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.22 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Fear of Burning Alive by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Fear of Burning Alive, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other enchantment creature cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Fear of Burning Alive is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.