Nightmares and Daydreams
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Until your next turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, target player mills cards equal to that spell's mana value.
IV — Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #19735
Nightmares and Daydreams puts four 1/1 nightmare tokens with flying onto the battlefield and four 1/1 daydream tokens with flying into your hand — eight bodies split across two zones for five mana. The cost is real, but the immediate board presence plus the hand refuel make this a legitimate payoff in token and go-wide strategies.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nightmares and Daydreams is a Commander card through and through — the five-mana investment for eight tokens is calibrated for a 40-life multiplayer game where flooding the board and keeping cards in hand both matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; five mana for tokens that don't impact the board until your next attack step doesn't compete in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it can earn a slot, particularly in a black or blue spellslinger shell that wants both a board presence and hand fuel.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Nightmares and Daydreams sits firmly in bulk territory. New card with limited reprint history, so the price is likely to stay flat or drift lower as supply settles — pick it up for the effect, not as a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.