Fear of Burning Alive is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official 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.
How it works : Fear of Burning Alive
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Repercussion + Fear of Burning Alive
- 1Deal noncombat damage to an opponent.
- 2Fear of Burning Alive triggers, dealing that much damage to a creature that opponent controls.
- 3Repercussion triggers, dealing that much damage to the opponent.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer + Ajani's Presence + Fear of Burning Alive
- 1Cast Ajani's Presence by paying
, giving a creature an opponent controls indestructible until end of turn. - 2Deal noncombat damage to the indestructible creature.
- 3Toralf triggers, dealing damage equal to the excess to an opponent.
- 4Fear of Burning Alive triggers, dealing damage equal to the damage Toralf dealt to the indestructible creature.
- 5Repeat from step 3.
Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer + Deathless Angel + Fear of Burning Alive
- 1Activate Deathless Angel by paying , giving a creature an opponent controls indestructible until end of turn.
- 2Deal noncombat damage to the indestructible creature.
- 3Toralf triggers, dealing damage equal to the excess to an opponent.
- 4Fear of Burning Alive triggers, dealing damage equal to the damage Toralf dealt to the indestructible creature.
- 5Repeat from step 3.
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