Curse of the Nightly Hunt
Enchantment — Aura Curse
Enchant player
Creatures enchanted player controls attack each combat if able.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2015
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #11538
Curse of the Nightly Hunt forces all creatures an opponent controls to attack each combat — a blanket compulsion that drains their blockers, exposes their life total, and wrecks any strategy built around holding up a defensive board. Three mana is the right price for that kind of persistent pressure, and Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor turns it into a recursive threat that opponents have to answer twice.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor wants Curse of the Nightly Hunt in play early and in the graveyard often — when an opponent destroys it, Lynde redirects it back at that player, so the forced-attack punishment lands on exactly the person who tried to clean it up.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Curse of the Nightly Hunt is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero play outside of Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the effect is too slow and too narrow to compete with the raw power available at those tables. Commander is where it earns its slot: multiplayer means the forced-attack clause hits one player's entire board, creating chaos, draining blockers, and enabling damage-based triggers across the table. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth noting — if your planeswalker commander benefits from opponents overcommitting to attacks, this is a reasonable piece of that plan.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Curse of the Nightly Hunt sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking this up as a throw-in or out of a bulk bin, not making a purchasing decision. Bulk enchantments with narrow homes don't tend to climb, so treat it as a cheap role-player and nothing more.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.