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Blinkmoth Nexus

Land

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.
{1}, {T}: Target Blinkmoth creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Darksteel
Price
$3.03
EDHREC rank
#2989
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Blinkmoth Nexus card art
Blinkmoth Nexus is a land that becomes a 1/1 flying artifact creature for one mana — and in artifact-heavy or token-doubling shells, that creature status is doing real work. Springheart Nantuko turns every animated Nexus activation into a token, and Baba Lysaga, Night Witch counts it as a creature entering to fuel her sacrifice engine, making a single land pull double or triple duty.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

73.3% of decks · synergy 0.72

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch wants permanents to sacrifice, and Blinkmoth Nexus supplies a repeatable creature — animate it, sacrifice it to Lysaga's ability, then untap and do it again next turn.

02
Black Panther, Wakandan King

Black Panther, Wakandan King

42.8% of decks · synergy 0.42

Black Panther, Wakandan King cares about non-Human creatures entering the battlefield, and an animated Blinkmoth Nexus qualifies as exactly that — a low-cost way to trigger his ability off a land slot.

03
Arcum Dagsson

Arcum Dagsson

43.0% of decks · synergy 0.42

Arcum Dagsson can tap any artifact creature to tutor up any non-creature artifact, and Blinkmoth Nexus is the cleanest land-based way to give him a free target without spending a deck slot on a dedicated creature.

04
Winota, Joiner of Forces

Winota, Joiner of Forces

40.2% of decks · synergy 0.38

Winota, Joiner of Forces triggers off non-Human creatures attacking, and an animated Blinkmoth Nexus is a non-Human attacker that costs nothing beyond the land drop — a free trigger hiding in the mana base.

05
Jyoti, Moag Ancient

Jyoti, Moag Ancient

33.6% of decks · synergy 0.33

Jyoti, Moag Ancient creates land tokens when you play lands, and Blinkmoth Nexus animating into a creature means the mana base contributes to both the resource engine and the board presence Jyoti rewards.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Blinkmoth Nexus earns its land slot in artifact, sacrifice, and token-doubling decks — it's not a generic include, but in the right shell it turns a land into a repeatable game piece. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees play in Affinity and artifact-based strategies where animating it alongside other Blinkmoth tokens can close games, though neither format leans on it heavily given the power level of other options. Modern is where Blinkmoth Nexus has historically had the most competitive presence, appearing in Affinity and Hardened Scales lists as both a threat and a synergy piece that opponents must respect. Pioneer and Standard are off the table, and Pauper can't run it, so Commander remains the format where it shows up most broadly across player collections.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,462 decks
Blinkmoth NexusSpringheart NantukoLotus Cobra

Blinkmoth NexusSpringheart NantukoLotus Cobra

Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite tapped copies of a specific land; Infinite tapped Mountain tokens; Infinite tapped Island tokens; Infinite tapped Forest tokens; Infinite tapped Plains tokens; Infinite tapped Swamp tokens

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Price Context

Current price

$3.03 cheap tier

At $3.03, Blinkmoth Nexus sits in the budget-friendly tier for a card that pulls double duty as a land and a creature. It's a stable, widely-reprinted card, so there's no urgency to buy in — copies are consistently available at or near this price.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.