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Nadier's Nightblade

Creature — Elf Warrior

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#832
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Nadier's Nightblade card art
Nadier's Nightblade turns every token leaving the battlefield into a drain trigger — opponents lose life, you gain it, with zero setup beyond having a token engine running. At three mana it slots cleanly into shells already built around sacrifice and token generation, and pairing it with Warren Soultrader or Teysa, Opulent Oligarch can close a game through a wall of interaction that would stop combat damage cold.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

80.2% of decks · synergy 0.75

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch generates tokens on opponents' end steps and turns every death into more tokens, so Nadier's Nightblade is draining the table on every beat of that loop — it's one of the tightest two-card pairings in the archetype.

02
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

66.7% of decks · synergy 0.64

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder floods the board with Thrull tokens that must eventually be sacrificed to keep him alive, and Nadier's Nightblade converts that forced sacrifice into a damage-and-life-gain payoff that turns a liability into a win condition.

03
Prosper, Tome-Bound

Prosper, Tome-Bound

63.5% of decks · synergy 0.58

Prosper, Tome-Bound creates a Treasure token every time you cast a spell from exile, and those Treasures spent on mana each trigger Nadier's Nightblade — the card effectively taxes every mana rock activation in the deck.

04
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

66.7% of decks · synergy 0.55

Hazel of the Rootbloom copies activated abilities, which means token-sacrificing abilities fire twice and Nadier's Nightblade drains twice per activation — the drain output scales exponentially once the engine is live.

05
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

54.1% of decks · synergy 0.49

Kambal, Profiteering Mayor creates a Citizen token whenever an opponent plays a noncreature spell, giving Nadier's Nightblade a steady stream of sacrifice fodder even when your own engine isn't firing.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Nadier's Nightblade earns its keep — three opponents means every token loss triggers drain against three life totals simultaneously, and dedicated sacrifice engines make the effect recursive rather than incidental. In Pauper it's legal and has seen fringe play in token-sacrifice builds, though the format's faster clock and focused opponents make the life drain less of a game-closer than in a multiplayer pod. Legacy and Vintage offer the card zero support from the format's actual engines, and it has no competitive presence there. Pioneer and Standard don't carry it, but that's irrelevant — Nadier's Nightblade was designed for Commander and plays like it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Nadier's Nightblade is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin or ordering a playset for less than a pack of sleeves. Bulk rares with active combo presence tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency beyond just grabbing it when you need it.

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