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The Frightful Four
Legendary Creature — Villain
Menace Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, that player loses life equal to that spell's mana value.
The Frightful Four deck guide
The Frightful Four is a mono-black creature commander. It leads 9 decks on EDHREC, where it ranks #5,473 among all commanders.
A typical The Frightful Four list runs 34 lands (27 basic), 26 creatures, 9 instants, 9 sorceries, 10 artifacts, 9 enchantments and 2 planeswalkers.
The cards played most with The Frightful Four: Sol Ring (78% of decks), Arcane Signet (67% of decks), Morbid Opportunist (56% of decks), Ayara, First of Locthwain (56% of decks), Dauthi Voidwalker (56% of decks) and Ophiomancer (56% of decks).
Well-known combos with The Frightful Four:
- Shredder, Shadow Master + Wound Reflection
- Tree of Perdition + Wound Reflection
- Unstoppable Slasher + Wound Reflection
Similar commanders: Kambal, Consul of Allocation, Kaervek the Merciless, Liesa, Shroud of Dusk, Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Seizan, Perverter of Truth.
Play data from EDHREC, updated daily.
Average Card Type Breakdown
Average Mana Curve
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Most Played With The Frightful Four (191)
Sol Ring
78% of decks · $1.34
Arcane Signet
67% of decks · $0.49
Morbid Opportunist
56% of decks · $0.38
Ayara, First of Locthwain
56% of decks · $8.44
Dauthi Voidwalker
56% of decks · $5.72
Ophiomancer
56% of decks · $1.18
Deadly Rollick
56% of decks · $28.68
Withering Torment
56% of decks · $1.60
Blasphemous Edict
56% of decks · $4.24
Damnation
56% of decks · $21.01
Black Market Connections
56% of decks · $10.53
Accursed Marauder
44% of decks · $0.31
Plaguecrafter
44% of decks · $0.39
Dread Presence
44% of decks · $3.39
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
44% of decks · $98.55
Solemn Simulacrum
44% of decks · $0.31
Blood Artist
44% of decks · $3.83
Go for the Throat
44% of decks · $0.62
Imp's Mischief
44% of decks · $9.18
Syphon Mind
44% of decks · $0.31
Sign in Blood
44% of decks · $3.14
Wayfarer's Bauble
44% of decks · $5.61
Swiftfoot Boots
44% of decks
Lightning Greaves
44% of decks · $4.10
The Darkness Crystal
44% of decks · $4.28
Charcoal Diamond
44% of decks · $0.35
Thran Dynamo
44% of decks · $4.36
Mind Stone
44% of decks
The Meathook Massacre
44% of decks · $24.81
Creeping Bloodsucker
33% of decks · $4.95
Burglar Rat
33% of decks · $0.31
Sheoldred, Whispering One
33% of decks · $20.76
Shredder, Shadow Master
33% of decks · $1.24
Scrawling Crawler
33% of decks · $6.39
Mai, Scornful Striker
33% of decks · $0.83
Massacre Wurm
33% of decks · $2.44
Rug of Smothering
33% of decks · $0.62
Unstoppable Slasher
33% of decks · $5.75
Syr Konrad, the Grim
33% of decks · $1.67
Hagra Mauling
33% of decks
Consuming Corruption
33% of decks · $0.26
Withering Boon
33% of decks · $11.17
Infernal Grasp
33% of decks · $0.32
Dismember
33% of decks · $4.78
Torment of Hailfire
33% of decks · $36.04
Night's Whisper
33% of decks · $6.25
Reanimate
33% of decks · $10.10
Toxic Deluge
33% of decks · $5.02
Dark Deal
33% of decks · $2.21
Expedition Map
33% of decks · $1.43
Bontu's Monument
33% of decks · $4.60
Throne of Eldraine
33% of decks · $29.40
Fellwar Stone
33% of decks
Greed
33% of decks · $0.33
Black Market
33% of decks · $6.30
Exquisite Blood
33% of decks · $40.36
Bottomless Pit
33% of decks · $7.59
Animate Dead
33% of decks · $7.45
Leyline of the Void
33% of decks · $0.73
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
33% of decks · $10.03
Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
33% of decks · $0.47
Liliana of the Dark Realms
33% of decks · $9.67
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
22% of decks · $18.44
Soot Imp
22% of decks · $1.26
Nightshade Harvester
22% of decks · $0.38
Loyal Subordinate
22% of decks · $0.29
Mindslicer
22% of decks · $0.66
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
22% of decks · $36.69
Massacre Girl
22% of decks · $0.53
Stensian Sanguinist
22% of decks
Blood Seeker
22% of decks · $0.38
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
22% of decks · $1.05
Great Unclean One
22% of decks · $4.13
Madame Masque
22% of decks · $0.19
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
22% of decks · $2.36
Baron Helmut Zemo
22% of decks · $0.27
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
22% of decks · $23.80
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
22% of decks · $36.82
Tree of Perdition
22% of decks · $2.94
Fell the Profane
22% of decks
Sheoldred's Edict
22% of decks · $1.44
Snuff Out
22% of decks · $12.98
Village Rites
22% of decks · $0.93
Deadly Dispute
22% of decks · $0.27
March of Wretched Sorrow
22% of decks · $0.34
Darkness
22% of decks · $23.83
Vampiric Tutor
22% of decks · $54.03
Tragic Slip
22% of decks · $0.26
Scorpion's Sting
22% of decks · $0.19
Dark Deed
22% of decks · $0.17
Visions of Villainy
22% of decks · $0.17
Temporal Extortion
22% of decks · $27.65
Zof Consumption
22% of decks
Risky Research
22% of decks · $0.21
Venom's Hunger
22% of decks · $0.18
Isolation Cell
22% of decks · $0.29
Helm of the Host
22% of decks · $5.21
Unstable Molecule Suit
22% of decks · $1.37
Caged Sun
22% of decks · $3.87
The Soul Stone
22% of decks · $60.43
Waste Not
22% of decks · $8.56
Polluted Bonds
22% of decks · $10.28
Meathook Massacre II
22% of decks · $2.44
Underworld Dreams
22% of decks · $2.19
Revenge of Ravens
22% of decks · $0.38
Hissing Miasma
22% of decks · $2.38
Oppression
22% of decks · $4.79
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
11% of decks · $4.79
Boggart Trawler
11% of decks
Virtus the Veiled
11% of decks · $8.12
Tymaret, Chosen from Death
11% of decks · $0.17
Flensermite
11% of decks · $0.26
Shadow Alley Denizen
11% of decks · $0.25
Nightmare
11% of decks · $0.23
Sedgemoor Witch
11% of decks · $3.87
Myr Convert
11% of decks · $0.34
Pestilent Syphoner
11% of decks · $0.27
Core Prowler
11% of decks · $0.91
Dread
11% of decks · $8.45
Phage the Untouchable
11% of decks · $16.46
Whisper of the Dross
11% of decks · $0.30
Grim Affliction
11% of decks · $0.32
Defile
11% of decks · $1.43
Cabal Ritual
11% of decks
Culling the Weak
11% of decks · $8.03
Armor of Shadows
11% of decks · $0.31
Dash Hopes
11% of decks · $0.79
Unlikely Aid
11% of decks · $0.20
Malakir Rebirth
11% of decks
Consumed by Greed
11% of decks · $0.28
Professor's Warning
11% of decks · $0.30
Dark Endurance
11% of decks · $0.12
Masterful Flourish
11% of decks · $0.15
Decoy Ploy
11% of decks · $0.14
Hour of Defeat
11% of decks · $0.09
Widow's Bite
11% of decks · $0.10
Vat Emergence
11% of decks · $0.32
Diabolic Tutor
11% of decks · $2.21
Peer into the Abyss
11% of decks · $3.59
Victimize
11% of decks · $1.25
Feed the Infection
11% of decks · $0.25
Phyresis Outbreak
11% of decks · $12.61
Choice of Damnations
11% of decks · $22.59
Thought Distortion
11% of decks · $0.23
Infectious Inquiry
11% of decks · $0.35
Final Punishment
11% of decks · $0.24
Demonic Tutor
11% of decks · $69.17
Pelakka Predation
11% of decks
Heartless Conscription
11% of decks · $2.35
Drown in Ichor
11% of decks · $0.83
Breach the Multiverse
11% of decks · $11.45
Shredder's Technique
11% of decks · $0.33
Cruel Alliance
11% of decks · $0.07
Too Evil to Stay Dead
11% of decks · $0.18
Chimil, the Inner Sun
11% of decks · $7.83
Bolas's Citadel
11% of decks · $15.83
Mithril Coat
11% of decks · $29.06
Ankh of Mishra
11% of decks
Mind's Eye
11% of decks · $5.56
Skullclamp
11% of decks · $5.18
Commander's Plate
11% of decks · $38.90
Decimator Web
11% of decks · $0.51
Eerie Gravestone
11% of decks · $0.23
Doc Ock's Tentacles
11% of decks · $0.41
Anchovy & Banana Pizza
11% of decks · $0.13
Captain America's Shield
11% of decks · $1.43
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
11% of decks · $0.13
Stolen Stark Tech
11% of decks · $0.15
Vibranium Energy Daggers
11% of decks · $0.15
Staff of Compleation
11% of decks · $4.00
Glistening Sphere
11% of decks · $13.25
Heraldic Banner
11% of decks · $0.36
Dependable Quinjet
11% of decks · $0.16
Sanguine Bond
11% of decks · $7.95
Relic Putrescence
11% of decks · $0.23
Tainted Aether
11% of decks · $8.38
Nowhere to Run
11% of decks · $0.56
Pestilence
11% of decks · $0.58
Virtue of Persistence
11% of decks
Necrogen Communion
11% of decks · $0.32
Thunderbolts Conspiracy
11% of decks · $0.23
Doom Reigns Supreme
11% of decks · $0.29
Changing Loyalty
11% of decks · $1.44
Construct a Cosmic Cube
11% of decks · $0.20
Robot Domination
11% of decks · $0.13
HYDRA Infiltration
11% of decks · $0.07
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
11% of decks · $2.78
Professor Onyx
11% of decks · $4.75
Sorin Markov
11% of decks · $9.55
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
11% of decks · $0.79
Liliana, the Necromancer
11% of decks · $13.32
New Cards
The Master of Lake-town
25% of decks · $0.59
Creatures (50)
Morbid Opportunist
56% of decks · $0.38
Ayara, First of Locthwain
56% of decks · $8.44
Dauthi Voidwalker
56% of decks · $5.72
Ophiomancer
56% of decks · $1.18
Accursed Marauder
44% of decks · $0.31
Plaguecrafter
44% of decks · $0.39
Dread Presence
44% of decks · $3.39
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
44% of decks · $98.55
Solemn Simulacrum
44% of decks · $0.31
Blood Artist
44% of decks · $3.83
Creeping Bloodsucker
33% of decks · $4.95
Burglar Rat
33% of decks · $0.31
Sheoldred, Whispering One
33% of decks · $20.76
Shredder, Shadow Master
33% of decks · $1.24
Scrawling Crawler
33% of decks · $6.39
Mai, Scornful Striker
33% of decks · $0.83
Massacre Wurm
33% of decks · $2.44
Rug of Smothering
33% of decks · $0.62
Unstoppable Slasher
33% of decks · $5.75
Syr Konrad, the Grim
33% of decks · $1.67
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
22% of decks · $18.44
Soot Imp
22% of decks · $1.26
Nightshade Harvester
22% of decks · $0.38
Loyal Subordinate
22% of decks · $0.29
Mindslicer
22% of decks · $0.66
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
22% of decks · $36.69
Massacre Girl
22% of decks · $0.53
Stensian Sanguinist
22% of decks
Blood Seeker
22% of decks · $0.38
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
22% of decks · $1.05
Great Unclean One
22% of decks · $4.13
Madame Masque
22% of decks · $0.19
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
22% of decks · $2.36
Baron Helmut Zemo
22% of decks · $0.27
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
22% of decks · $23.80
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
22% of decks · $36.82
Tree of Perdition
22% of decks · $2.94
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
11% of decks · $4.79
Boggart Trawler
11% of decks
Virtus the Veiled
11% of decks · $8.12
Tymaret, Chosen from Death
11% of decks · $0.17
Flensermite
11% of decks · $0.26
Shadow Alley Denizen
11% of decks · $0.25
Nightmare
11% of decks · $0.23
Sedgemoor Witch
11% of decks · $3.87
Myr Convert
11% of decks · $0.34
Pestilent Syphoner
11% of decks · $0.27
Core Prowler
11% of decks · $0.91
Dread
11% of decks · $8.45
Phage the Untouchable
11% of decks · $16.46
Instants (37)
Deadly Rollick
56% of decks · $28.68
Withering Torment
56% of decks · $1.60
Go for the Throat
44% of decks · $0.62
Imp's Mischief
44% of decks · $9.18
Hagra Mauling
33% of decks
Consuming Corruption
33% of decks · $0.26
Withering Boon
33% of decks · $11.17
Infernal Grasp
33% of decks · $0.32
Dismember
33% of decks · $4.78
Fell the Profane
22% of decks
Sheoldred's Edict
22% of decks · $1.44
Snuff Out
22% of decks · $12.98
Village Rites
22% of decks · $0.93
Deadly Dispute
22% of decks · $0.27
March of Wretched Sorrow
22% of decks · $0.34
Darkness
22% of decks · $23.83
Vampiric Tutor
22% of decks · $54.03
Tragic Slip
22% of decks · $0.26
Scorpion's Sting
22% of decks · $0.19
Dark Deed
22% of decks · $0.17
Visions of Villainy
22% of decks · $0.17
Whisper of the Dross
11% of decks · $0.30
Grim Affliction
11% of decks · $0.32
Defile
11% of decks · $1.43
Cabal Ritual
11% of decks
Culling the Weak
11% of decks · $8.03
Armor of Shadows
11% of decks · $0.31
Dash Hopes
11% of decks · $0.79
Unlikely Aid
11% of decks · $0.20
Malakir Rebirth
11% of decks
Consumed by Greed
11% of decks · $0.28
Professor's Warning
11% of decks · $0.30
Dark Endurance
11% of decks · $0.12
Masterful Flourish
11% of decks · $0.15
Decoy Ploy
11% of decks · $0.14
Hour of Defeat
11% of decks · $0.09
Widow's Bite
11% of decks · $0.10
Sorceries (31)
Blasphemous Edict
56% of decks · $4.24
Damnation
56% of decks · $21.01
Syphon Mind
44% of decks · $0.31
Sign in Blood
44% of decks · $3.14
Torment of Hailfire
33% of decks · $36.04
Night's Whisper
33% of decks · $6.25
Reanimate
33% of decks · $10.10
Toxic Deluge
33% of decks · $5.02
Dark Deal
33% of decks · $2.21
Temporal Extortion
22% of decks · $27.65
Zof Consumption
22% of decks
Risky Research
22% of decks · $0.21
Venom's Hunger
22% of decks · $0.18
Vat Emergence
11% of decks · $0.32
Diabolic Tutor
11% of decks · $2.21
Peer into the Abyss
11% of decks · $3.59
Victimize
11% of decks · $1.25
Feed the Infection
11% of decks · $0.25
Phyresis Outbreak
11% of decks · $12.61
Choice of Damnations
11% of decks · $22.59
Thought Distortion
11% of decks · $0.23
Infectious Inquiry
11% of decks · $0.35
Final Punishment
11% of decks · $0.24
Demonic Tutor
11% of decks · $69.17
Pelakka Predation
11% of decks
Heartless Conscription
11% of decks · $2.35
Drown in Ichor
11% of decks · $0.83
Breach the Multiverse
11% of decks · $11.45
Shredder's Technique
11% of decks · $0.33
Cruel Alliance
11% of decks · $0.07
Too Evil to Stay Dead
11% of decks · $0.18
Utility Artifacts (24)
Wayfarer's Bauble
44% of decks · $5.61
Swiftfoot Boots
44% of decks
Lightning Greaves
44% of decks · $4.10
The Darkness Crystal
44% of decks · $4.28
Expedition Map
33% of decks · $1.43
Bontu's Monument
33% of decks · $4.60
Isolation Cell
22% of decks · $0.29
Helm of the Host
22% of decks · $5.21
Unstable Molecule Suit
22% of decks · $1.37
Chimil, the Inner Sun
11% of decks · $7.83
Bolas's Citadel
11% of decks · $15.83
Mithril Coat
11% of decks · $29.06
Ankh of Mishra
11% of decks
Mind's Eye
11% of decks · $5.56
Skullclamp
11% of decks · $5.18
Commander's Plate
11% of decks · $38.90
Decimator Web
11% of decks · $0.51
Eerie Gravestone
11% of decks · $0.23
Doc Ock's Tentacles
11% of decks · $0.41
Anchovy & Banana Pizza
11% of decks · $0.13
Captain America's Shield
11% of decks · $1.43
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
11% of decks · $0.13
Stolen Stark Tech
11% of decks · $0.15
Vibranium Energy Daggers
11% of decks · $0.15
Mana Artifacts (13)
Sol Ring
78% of decks · $1.34
Arcane Signet
67% of decks · $0.49
Charcoal Diamond
44% of decks · $0.35
Thran Dynamo
44% of decks · $4.36
Mind Stone
44% of decks
Throne of Eldraine
33% of decks · $29.40
Fellwar Stone
33% of decks
Caged Sun
22% of decks · $3.87
The Soul Stone
22% of decks · $60.43
Staff of Compleation
11% of decks · $4.00
Glistening Sphere
11% of decks · $13.25
Heraldic Banner
11% of decks · $0.36
Dependable Quinjet
11% of decks · $0.16
Enchantments (28)
Black Market Connections
56% of decks · $10.53
The Meathook Massacre
44% of decks · $24.81
Greed
33% of decks · $0.33
Black Market
33% of decks · $6.30
Exquisite Blood
33% of decks · $40.36
Bottomless Pit
33% of decks · $7.59
Animate Dead
33% of decks · $7.45
Leyline of the Void
33% of decks · $0.73
Waste Not
22% of decks · $8.56
Polluted Bonds
22% of decks · $10.28
Meathook Massacre II
22% of decks · $2.44
Underworld Dreams
22% of decks · $2.19
Revenge of Ravens
22% of decks · $0.38
Hissing Miasma
22% of decks · $2.38
Oppression
22% of decks · $4.79
Sanguine Bond
11% of decks · $7.95
Relic Putrescence
11% of decks · $0.23
Tainted Aether
11% of decks · $8.38
Nowhere to Run
11% of decks · $0.56
Pestilence
11% of decks · $0.58
Virtue of Persistence
11% of decks
Necrogen Communion
11% of decks · $0.32
Thunderbolts Conspiracy
11% of decks · $0.23
Doom Reigns Supreme
11% of decks · $0.29
Changing Loyalty
11% of decks · $1.44
Construct a Cosmic Cube
11% of decks · $0.20
Robot Domination
11% of decks · $0.13
HYDRA Infiltration
11% of decks · $0.07
Planeswalkers (8)
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
33% of decks · $10.03
Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
33% of decks · $0.47
Liliana of the Dark Realms
33% of decks · $9.67
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
11% of decks · $2.78
Professor Onyx
11% of decks · $4.75
Sorin Markov
11% of decks · $9.55
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
11% of decks · $0.79
Liliana, the Necromancer
11% of decks · $13.32
Utility Lands (21)
Witch's Cottage
78% of decks
Cabal Coffers
78% of decks
Bojuka Bog
67% of decks
War Room
56% of decks
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
56% of decks
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
56% of decks
Cabal Stronghold
44% of decks
Phyrexian Tower
33% of decks
Reliquary Tower
33% of decks
Leechridden Swamp
33% of decks
Thespian's Stage
22% of decks
Castle Locthwain
22% of decks
Lotus Field
11% of decks
Mortuary Mire
11% of decks
Maze of Ith
11% of decks
Crypt of Agadeem
11% of decks
Command Beacon
11% of decks
Deserted Temple
11% of decks
Karn's Bastion
11% of decks
Temple of the False God
11% of decks
Rogue's Passage
11% of decks
Lands (10)
Swamp
100% of decks
Hagra Mauling
33% of decks
Fell the Profane
22% of decks
Plaza of Heroes
22% of decks
Zof Consumption
22% of decks
Villainous Hideout
22% of decks
Myriad Landscape
11% of decks
Boggart Trawler
11% of decks
Malakir Rebirth
11% of decks
Pelakka Predation
11% of decks
Play-rate data via EDHREC. Card images and prices via Scryfall.
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