Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
Legendary Creature — Rat Ninja
Ninjutsu 
(, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Nashi deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #1877
Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion lets you exile cards from opponents' libraries and cast them for free — the tax is life payment equal to the mana value, which is steep but consistently worth it when you're playing someone else's haymakers. Splinter, Radical Rat pairings have made Nashi a staple precisely because that shell already wants cheap, evasive ninjas that generate card advantage without spending mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Splinter, Radical Rat
Splinter, Radical Rat is the defining home for Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion — Splinter's ninjutsu-enabling gameplan turns Nashi into a repeatable engine that exiles and casts opponents' spells every time it connects, which is exactly the effect the deck is built to weaponize.
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor runs Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion as a redundant steal effect — both cards eat opponents' libraries from the top, and doubling up on that effect means the deck reliably plays other people's best cards throughout the game.
Gonti, Night Minister
Gonti, Night Minister's exile-and-cast theme maps directly onto Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion, giving the deck a evasive attacker that extends the same core loop Gonti establishes from the command zone.
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow wants ninjas with high mana values to maximize ninjutsu trigger damage, and Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion checks both boxes — it's a ninja that also generates card advantage by casting whatever it exiles on hit.
Rev, Tithe Extractor
Rev, Tithe Extractor runs Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion as part of a broader theft package, where each opponent's card exiled and cast compounds the value Rev's own triggers are already accruing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion — three opponents mean three libraries to exile from, the life-payment cost scales reasonably in a 40-life format, and the ninja creature type plugs directly into an established tribal infrastructure. In competitive Commander environments it functions as a role-player rather than a combo piece, but in mid-power games it's a legitimate threat that demands an answer. Modern and Pioneer legality is mostly theoretical; the effect is too slow and the body too fragile for a 20-life format where opponents are closing the game on turn four. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem compounded by the power of what those formats are doing at instant speed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.