Nihilith
Creature — Horror
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Suspend 7—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with seven time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this card is suspended, you may remove a time counter from this card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #14882
Nihilith lands as a 6/6 flying, fear threat that punishes opponents just for having an empty hand — and if you've been milling them, it often arrives ahead of schedule via suspend. The suspend discount is the whole game here: a seven-mana vanilla beatstick is unplayable, but a two-mana clock that enters with counters ticking down while you disrupt hands is a real threat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Captain N'ghathrod
Captain N'ghathrod mills opponents every time a Horror connects, which accelerates both the graveyard count Nihilith cares about and the empty-hand math that triggers its suspend discount — the two cards are chasing the same resource simultaneously.
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 |
Nihilith is a Commander card, full stop. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but strictly outclassed — those formats end before suspend counts down and don't run the hand-disruption density needed to make its discount reliable. In Commander, a 75-card singleton environment filled with hand-attack, mill, and Dimir grind decks, Nihilith finds exactly the setup it needs: opponents frequently sit on small or empty hands by the mid-game, meaning you can suspend it for two mana and have a 6/6 with fear swinging in three turns. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper can't run it legally, and it wouldn't make the cut in those formats anyway.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Nihilith sits firmly in bulk territory, which is fair — it's a build-around with a narrow home and not much cross-format demand. That price is stable; there's no competitive spike incoming, but mill-horror Commander players picking up a copy have almost no barrier to entry.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.