Fraying Sanity

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Fraying Sanity: Enchantment - Aura Curse, Hour of Devastation. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{U}
Mana value
3
Type
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Hour of Devastation (HOU)
Released
2017-07-14
Collector number
35
Artist
Ryan Alexander Lee
Commander rank
2,872 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Enchant, Mill

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About Fraying Sanity

Fraying Sanity is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue enchantment from Hour of Devastation (HOU), an expansion set released in July 2017. It is collector number 35 in that set, with art by Ryan Alexander Lee. It costs {2}{U} (two generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Hour of Devastation (2017) to Fallout (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.60 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Enchant player

At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Those wound tightest are first to unravel.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.60 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Fraying Sanity by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Fraying Sanity

Fraying Sanity has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Fallout (PIP) #175Rare2024
Fallout (PIP) #459Rare2024
Fallout (PIP) #703Rare2024
Fallout (PIP) #987Rare2024
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales (WOT) #19Rare2023
Hour of Devastation Promos (PHOU) #35sRare2017

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to Fraying Sanity, newest first.

  • Fraying Sanity's triggered ability counts the number of cards that were put into the enchanted player's graveyard during the turn, even if Fraying Sanity wasn't on the battlefield at the time those cards were put there, and even if those cards have left that graveyard.
  • The value of X is determined only as Fraying Sanity's triggered ability resolves. For example, if three Fraying Sanity Auras are attached to one player who had four cards put into their graveyard this turn, X will be four for the first ability to resolve, eight for the second, and sixteen for the third.

Similar cards

Other enchantment cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Fraying Sanity is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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