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Nalfeshnee

Creature — Beast Demon

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. If it's a permanent spell, the copy gains haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent." (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
$9.31
EDHREC rank
#2549
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Nalfeshnee card art
Nalfeshnee turns every card you exile — whether cascaded into, flickered through, or cast from exile — into a free copy of that spell, stacking triggers fast enough to end games the turn it lands. The seven-mana price tag is steep, but in exile-matters shells alongside Eternal Scourge loops or Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald's wolf-spawning engine, the first trigger usually pays for itself.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

62.9% of decks · synergy 0.60

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald casts spells from exile by design, meaning Nalfeshnee generates a free copy of every card Faldorn already wanted to cast — doubling the wolf triggers and the damage in the same motion.

02
Averna, the Chaos Bloom

Averna, the Chaos Bloom

45.1% of decks · synergy 0.42

Averna, the Chaos Bloom cascades repeatedly, and Nalfeshnee copies each cascaded spell as it's exiled and cast, turning a single cascade chain into a multi-spell avalanche of free value.

03
Loot, the Key to Everything

Loot, the Key to Everything

43.8% of decks · synergy 0.41

Loot, the Key to Everything exiles cards constantly as part of its adventure mechanic, and Nalfeshnee copies each one cast from exile, converting Loot's already-generous card advantage into a second wave of free spells.

04
Abaddon the Despoiler

Abaddon the Despoiler

40.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Abaddon the Despoiler triggers cascade on every spell cast, and Nalfeshnee copies the cascaded spells, meaning each attack step can produce an exponentially growing stack of free casts.

05
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

39.5% of decks · synergy 0.38

Ian Malcolm, Chaotician builds around random exile and casting from unusual zones, and Nalfeshnee layers a copy onto every spell cast through that chaos, amplifying the high-variance payoffs Ian Malcolm already generates.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Nalfeshnee lives — 99-card singleton exile synergies, cascade commanders, and flicker loops create enough exile-cast triggers to justify the seven mana. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but far too slow and expensive for formats where games end on turn one or two; no competitive shell is looking for a seven-mana creature that copies spells when cheaper and faster engines already exist. Nalfeshnee is a Commander card through and through, and the format's slower clock and multiplayer life totals are exactly the conditions it needs to take over a game.

Key Combos

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Kaza, Roil Chaser and Dualcaster Mage both copy spells at a fraction of the mana, though neither triggers off the exile-cast condition the way Nalfeshnee does — they require you to hold mana open or respond to your own spells rather than rewarding an entire zone of activity passively. If the goal is pure spell-copying, Thousand-Year Storm is the closest spiritual replacement in storm-adjacent builds, though it doesn't interact with exile at all and asks for a very different deck architecture.

Price Context

Current price

$9.31 mid tier

At $9.31, Nalfeshnee sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it's not gatekeeping budget builds. It's a niche card with a narrow but devoted audience, so the price is unlikely to crater, but don't expect it to climb without a pushed reprint of exile-matters synergies.

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