Nihilistic Glee
Enchantment
, Discard a card: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Hellbent — 
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #25508
Nihilistic Glee turns life payment into a repeatable draw-discard engine — pay life, draw a card, discard a card, and loop it as many times as you can afford on any given turn. The catch is that it eats your life total as fuel, so it only belongs in decks that generate life as a resource or win before the drain matters.
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 where Nihilistic Glee actually lives — black life-payment commanders like Bolas's Citadel shells, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Necropotence-adjacent strategies treat the life cost as negligible overhead rather than a real drawback. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; Necropotence, Sylvan Library, and Yawgmoth's Bargain do the same job faster and without the discard clause. Nihilistic Glee is a Commander card dressed up in eternal-format legality.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Nihilistic Glee is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking. The price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile life-drain commander drives sudden demand, but at this tier you're buying it for the effect, not the speculation.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.