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Fear of Burning Alive

Enchantment Creature — Nightmare4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Six mana for a 4/4 and four to the face is a plain haymaker rate on its own; the delirium clause is where the card stops being a burn spell with legs and becomes a doubling engine. With a diverse, self-mill-inclined graveyard online, every point of noncombat damage you send at an opponent gets mirrored onto a creature that player controls, which inverts the usual math of burn. Normally you pick between face and board and eat the opportunity cost of the choice; here the two-for-one is stapled to the trigger, so the choice disappears. A later burn spell to the dome doubles as an equal-sized shot at something on their board, and every direct-damage effect already in your deck picks up a free second target. The timing wrinkle worth flagging: the trigger keys off a source dealing damage, not off this creature's own entry, so if the graveyard requirement is already met when it resolves, that opening four-to-the-face immediately doubles as a four-damage removal shot the moment it lands. The graveyard gate does the balancing work, demanding you assemble the fuel before the removal half switches on, which reframes the whole card as a payoff for how you built the yard rather than a standalone bomb. One directional caveat: the trigger only reads damage you deal to an opponent, so it spins purely on outgoing burn and cares nothing for damage you take yourself.

Fear of Burning Alive (dsk)
DSK · #135uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules 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.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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