Nightshade Stinger
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying
This creature can't block.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #18111
Nightshade Stinger is a one-mana 1/1 with fear — it deals damage to players reliably in most boardstates, and that matters almost nowhere except under Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor, where every point of combat damage to an opponent fuels mass card draw. Outside that specific engine, a vanilla-adjacent one-drop with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no late-game relevance is a hard sell at any cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor turns every point of combat damage to a player into a card draw trigger, so Nightshade Stinger's fear ability — making it unblockable by black and artifact creatures in most metas — means it connects often enough to justify the slot as a cheap, repeatable draw enabler.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nightshade Stinger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but realistically sees play in none of them outside Gix Commander builds. In Pauper, fear is a weak evasion keyword in a format defined by cheap removal and green creatures that block freely. In Legacy and Vintage, a 1/1 with no immediate impact doesn't compete for a slot. Nightshade Stinger is a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it belongs in exactly one archetype.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Nightshade Stinger sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — demand is narrow enough that no reprint pressure or supply change moves the needle. Buy it for pennies if Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor is your commander; otherwise it's not worth a second thought.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.