Glimmerdust Nap
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant tapped creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29160
Glimmerdust Nap taps a creature and keeps it tapped for two turns — a four-mana sorcery that buys you two combat steps of protection at best. Paying four for a temporary tap effect is too slow and too expensive when Blinding Fog and Paralyzing Grasp exist at lower cost, making Glimmerdust Nap a fringe inclusion at best.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Glimmerdust Nap is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Commander, four mana to tap one creature for two turns rarely swings a multiplayer game where three opponents can threaten simultaneously. Pauper is its most defensible home — the format's slower pace and fewer instant-speed answers mean a two-turn lockout on a key blocker or attacker can matter — but even there, Glimmerdust Nap competes with cheaper tap effects and loses on rate. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is simply not fast enough to exist.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Glimmerdust Nap is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box, not a store shelf. That price reflects demand accurately, and there is no foreseeable pressure to push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.