Brutal Nightstalker
Creature — Nightstalker
When this creature enters, you may have target opponent discard a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #30521
Brutal Nightstalker forces a discard on combat damage to a player, stapled to a 3/3 body for five mana — the effect is real, the cost is not competitive. Five mana for a vanilla-sized creature that requires connecting to generate value is too slow for any format where opponents have interaction.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Brutal Nightstalker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, five mana for a 3/3 with a conditional discard trigger is well below rate — Fell Specter and Howltooth Hollow fill the forced-discard role more efficiently, and black has far better hand-attack staples at every price point. Legacy and Vintage have access to the full card pool, which means Brutal Nightstalker competes against Hymn to Tourach and Thoughtseize; it doesn't come close. Oathbreaker offers no context where a slow, damage-dependent discard creature becomes viable.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Brutal Nightstalker is deep bulk — the price reflects near-zero demand across all formats. It holds no meaningful value; there is no foreseeable context that pressures this card upward.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.