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Nightscape Familiar

Creature — Zombie

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas
Price
$0.57
EDHREC rank
#1160
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Nightscape Familiar card art
Nightscape Familiar reduces the cost of your blue and black spells by one — a permanent, on-board discount that compounds every turn it survives. The regeneration clause makes it sticky enough to matter, and in any shell running expensive bounce spells like Aethersnipe, it pays for itself immediately; Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor decks in particular run it because every cursed spell costs less to fling around the table.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor

Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor

71.9% of decks · synergy 0.45

Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor runs a high density of blue and black curse spells, and Nightscape Familiar turns that into a permanent discount engine — getting Lynde's curses out a turn earlier is a meaningful speed increase in a strategy that wants to flood the board fast.

02
Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Obeka, Brute Chronologist

58.7% of decks · synergy 0.32

Obeka, Brute Chronologist leans heavily into expensive blue and black spells with end-step triggers, and Nightscape Familiar shaves enough mana that Obeka can land her payoffs and still hold up interaction in the same turn.

03
Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Zevlor, Elturel Exile

57.5% of decks · synergy 0.30

Zevlor, Elturel Exile copies instants and sorceries targeting a single opponent to hit all opponents, which means the blue and black spells Nightscape Familiar discounts get multiplied — every discount is effectively four discounts when Zevlor is active.

04
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

52.4% of decks · synergy 0.25

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds builds around high-cost blue and black spells with powerful upkeep triggers, and Nightscape Familiar's discount means that shell can develop its board and cast its big effects in the same turn rather than sequencing around mana.

05
Edea, Possessed Sorceress

Edea, Possessed Sorceress

50.9% of decks · synergy 0.24

Edea, Possessed Sorceress generates value off casting spells and wants to chain as many as possible in a turn, so Nightscape Familiar's blanket discount on blue and black spells directly increases the number of spells Edea can fire off in a single activation window.

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

Commander is where Nightscape Familiar earns its keep — the discount stacks with other cost-reducers, the regeneration keeps it alive through board wipes, and blue-black spell-heavy commanders genuinely want a permanent mana advantage on board. In Pauper, it sees niche play in blue-black control shells that run enough eligible spells to justify the slot, though it competes with more impactful two-drops. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but the competition for early plays is too stiff for a two-mana 1/1 to matter in those formats. Oathbreaker's compressed game length makes the discount less reliable to accumulate value from, but blue-black signatures built around expensive spells can still leverage it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.57 bulk tier

At $0.57, Nightscape Familiar is bulk by any measure — you're paying for the effect, not the card. It holds that price floor comfortably given consistent demand from Lynde and Obeka Commander builds, and there's no reason to expect it to move in either direction.

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