Nightmare Incursion
Sorcery
Search target player's library for up to X cards, where X is the number of Swamps you control, and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Eventide
- Price
- $1.13
- EDHREC rank
- #22062
Nightmare Incursion exiles up to X cards from target player's library where X is the number of Swamps you control — at eight or more Swamps, that's a surgical hit that can gut an opponent's entire game plan in one spell. The cost is real: you need a dedicated mono-black or heavy-black mana base to get full value, and at sorcery speed it won't stop anything already in hand.
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 only format where Nightmare Incursion is genuinely powerful — 35-land mono-black builds routinely hit eight-plus Swamps by mid-game, turning this into a targeted exile effect that strips whatever is most threatening from a single opponent's library. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but irrelevant; those formats move too fast for a five-mana sorcery that requires a Swamp-heavy board state to do anything meaningful. Modern is the same story — the payoff ceiling doesn't justify the setup cost against a field of turn-three-and-earlier decks. Oathbreaker is the secondary home worth considering, specifically under a mono-black planeswalker commander where the Swamp density is guaranteed and the smaller 60-card libraries make each exiled card hit harder.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.13 cheap tier
At $1.13, Nightmare Incursion sits in impulse-buy territory — cheap enough to slot into any mono-black Commander build without a second thought. The price reflects its narrow format and color identity requirements, and it's unlikely to move significantly unless a dominant Swamp-heavy commander pushes mainstream demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.