Nantuko Calmer
Creature — Insect Druid
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, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.
Threshold — This creature gets +1/+1 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #27325
Nantuko Calmer is a three-mana 2/2 that destroys a target enchantment when it enters — fine text, forgettable rate. The body doesn't justify the slot when Disenchant effects come stapled to better creatures or cost less mana.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Nantuko Calmer competes against a deep pool of enchantment removal that either costs less, replaces itself, or comes on a more relevant body — it rarely makes the cut. Pauper is the one format where the card pool is shallow enough that a 2/2 with an enters trigger sees occasional fringe consideration, though even there better options exist. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; no competitive deck wants a vanilla-stat creature doing this job at three mana. Nantuko Calmer is a bulk common that has never found a format where it genuinely belongs.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Nantuko Calmer sits firmly in bulk territory and has no realistic path out of it. There is no commander archetype or format pushing demand for this card, so that price is effectively a floor with a ceiling only slightly higher.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.