Hypnox
Creature — Nightmare Horror
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, exile all cards from target opponent's hand.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owner's hand.
- CMC
- 11
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $2.04
- EDHREC rank
- #20688
When Hypnox connects, it strips every card from an opponent's hand — a total discard effect stapled to an 8/8 flying body. Getting there costs eleven mana and requires casting it from your hand rather than cheating it in, which is the entire catch.
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 |
Commander is where Hypnox sees its only real play, and even there it occupies a niche reanimator or cheat-into-play role — you're not hard-casting eleven mana worth of demon honestly. Legacy and Vintage are legal but want nothing to do with it; faster, more consistent discard and threat packages exist at a fraction of the mana investment. Hypnox's clause requiring it to be cast from hand blocks the most broken deployment routes, which keeps it a flavor win rather than a format menace.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.04 cheap tier
At $2.04, Hypnox sits in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough that picking one up for a themed reanimator build costs nothing meaningful. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.