Fateful Tempest
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #31 (rare)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for past or present. You mill a card for each past vote, then Fateful Tempest deals damage to each opponent equal to the total mana value of cards milled this way. Exile the top card of your library for each present vote. Until the end of your next turn, you may play the exiled cards.
Fateful Tempest has 2 printings, first in Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (2026). EDHREC ranks it #14,162 among Commander cards. It appears most in Quintorius, History Chaser decks (2,604 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Fateful Tempest
- Lorehold Spirit - Secrets of Strixhaven, led by Quintorius, History Chaser
Commanders that run Fateful Tempest most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Quintorius, History Chaser: 2,604 decks
- The Valeyard: 386 decks
- Excava, the Risen Past: 71 decks
- Quintorius, Loremaster: 42 decks
- Plargg and Nassari: 29 decks
- Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos: 25 decks
- Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch: 23 decks
- Gau, Feral Youth: 20 decks
Often played with Fateful Tempest
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : No player votes until the spell or ability resolves. Any responses to that spell or ability must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
- : If a milled card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- : You pay all costs and follow all timing rules for cards played this way. For example, if one of the exiled cards is a land card, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty and only if you have an available land play remaining.
- : Votes are cast in turn order, and each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.
- : Each player must vote for one of the available options. They can't abstain.
- : Abilities that trigger "whenever players finish voting" trigger once all players have voted or once all secret votes are revealed, but they won't go on the stack until the current spell or ability finishes resolving.