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Crippling Fear

First printed in Kaldheim (2021)

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Crippling Fear

Sorcery

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Panic spread like wildfire as the demons of Immersturm poured into Bretagard, slaughtering as they came.

Illustrated by
Néstor Ossandón Leal

Legality

Rulings (3)

  • You choose the creature type as Crippling Fear resolves, and then creatures not of that type get -3/-3. Once Crippling Fear starts to resolve, players can't respond to the choice or take any actions until Crippling Fear finishes resolving.
  • You must choose an existing creature type, such as Fish or Artificer. You can't choose card types (e.g., artifact) or supertypes (e.g., snow).
  • Crippling Fear affects only creatures that aren't of the chosen type that are on the battlefield as it resolves. It won't affect creatures that enter the battlefield later in the turn, regardless of creature type. If a creature changes creature types later in the turn, Crippling Fear won't start or stop affecting that creature.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Crippling Fear in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Kaldheim (KHM), Premier Draft 57.2% +2.6 +6.0 5724
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Commander In 9 of 6520 decks (0.1%), most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Share of decks
0.1%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.2% 2026-08-24: 0.1% 2026-08-31: 0.2% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.2% 2026-09-21: 0.0% 2026-09-28: 0.1% 2026-10-05: 0.1% 2026-10-12: 0.1% 2026-10-19: 0.1% 2026-10-26: 0.7%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
9
9 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
83%
4 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 0.6% 11%
Francisco, Fowl Marauder + Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 0.1% 20%
Sliver Gravemother 0.0% 100%
Temmet, Naktamun's Will 0.0% 50%
Gisa and Geralf 0.0% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Command Tower100%1.2
Sol Ring100%1.0
Mothdust Changeling56%91.9
Changeling Outcast56%62.3
Underground River56%20.2
Lim-Dûl's Vault56%14.3
Brainstorm56%14.0
Watery Grave56%3.0
Misdirection56%2.0
Exotic Orchard56%1.5

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Julien Vlaminck in TAP THAT TUNDRA - EU CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER
5-1
83%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

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