Night Dealings
Enchantment
Whenever a source you control deals damage to another player, put that many theft counters on this enchantment.
, Remove X theft counters from this enchantment: Search your library for a nonland card with mana value X, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $1.16
- EDHREC rank
- #19906
Night Dealings converts damage into a tutor engine — each time a creature you control deals damage, you load a charge counter on it, and once you've stacked enough, you cash them in to search your library for a nonland card with mana value equal to the counter total. The cost is pure patience: this card does nothing the turn it lands and rewards deliberate, incremental damage rather than burst strategies, making it a liability in faster pods but a genuine engine in decks built around All Will Be One or consistent chip damage.
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 |
Night Dealings is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's effectively a Commander card — the 100-card singleton format gives it the time it needs to accumulate counters and the variety of threats worth tutoring for. In Legacy and Vintage, three and four mana do too much work immediately for a do-nothing enchantment to compete, and Modern's clock is only marginally more forgiving. Commander is where Night Dealings actually functions: slower games, multiple opponents to deal damage to, and a deep enough card pool to make a flexible tutor for any nonland card genuinely powerful.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.16 cheap tier
At $1.16, Night Dealings sits in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to throw into any deck that can use it without thinking twice about the cost. It's a narrow enough card that the price is unlikely to climb without a breakout commander pushing it into the spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.