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Nightscape Apprentice

Creature — Zombie Wizard

{U}, {T}: Put target creature you control on top of its owner's library.
{R}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
BRU
Rarity
common
Set
Invasion
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#28274
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Nightscape Apprentice card art
Nightscape Apprentice exists almost entirely to enable the Wormfang Manta extra-turn loop — outside that combo, a 1/1 that pumps or gives a creature -1/-1 at sorcery speed for two mana is not a card you play. The cost is slot opportunity: you are running a near-blank in every game where the combo doesn't assemble.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Nightscape Apprentice is a combo piece first and a creature never — it shows up in decks that can reliably tutor for it and immediately assemble the loop, not as a standalone inclusion. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to execute similar extra-turn lines with far more powerful pieces, so Nightscape Apprentice sees no meaningful play there. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander home given the common slot, but the activated abilities are too mana-intensive and slow for that format's tempo demands. Treat it as a Commander-only niche card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Nightscape Apprentice is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. The price is stable because copies are abundant and interest is narrow; don't expect movement in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.