Naya Charm
Instant
Choose one —
• Naya Charm deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Return target card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures target player controls.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #2954
Naya Charm puts three usable modes on one card — tap down a board, reanimate a creature, or pump your team — and three mana is a fair ask for that flexibility. It's not the most powerful thing in any category, but Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor decks that want a one-card answer to multiple board states keep reaching for it precisely because the modes don't overlap with each other.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor runs Naya Charm as a versatile role-player: the tap-all-creatures mode buys a combat step, the reanimate mode recovers a land-matters piece that got removed, and both lines fit cleanly into the deck's plan of staying alive long enough to go wide with animated lands.
Ghired, Conclave Exile
Ghired, Conclave Exile wants the tap mode — shutting down blockers before a Populate attack is a clean two-for-one, and Naya Charm costs little enough that it doesn't crowd out the deck's actual threats.
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil lives or dies on forcing bad attacks, and Naya Charm's tap-all-creatures mode is a hard lock on defense — opponents can't hold back their creatures to block if they're all tapped going into your combat.
Aragorn, the Uniter
Aragorn, the Uniter triggers off every green, red, and white spell you cast, so Naya Charm is effectively a three-mode spell that also draws a card via Aragorn's white trigger — raw efficiency for a deck that wants cheap spells across all three colors.
Mayael the Anima
Mayael the Anima sometimes bricks on a bottom-heavy library; Naya Charm's reanimate mode rescues a fatty that got milled or killed, giving the deck a second path to putting large creatures into play without spending another activation.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Naya Charm — three modes on one card is maximally valuable in a singleton format where you can't guarantee drawing the right answer, and the reanimate mode scales with the format's larger threats. In Legacy and Vintage, modal three-mana sorceries compete against individually more powerful cards at lower cost, so Naya Charm doesn't see serious play in either format. Modern is technically legal but the same problem applies: the tap mode doesn't hit instant speed, the reanimate mode is outclassed by dedicated recursion, and three mana is slow for a format defined by turn-three kills. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic closely enough that the card is similarly playable there in Naya-color shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Naya Charm is pure bulk — grab it out of a common box or add it to any order without thinking about it. Bulk modal spells at this price point don't move much; the card's value is in the slot it fills, not any future price upside.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.