Nim Lasher
Creature — Zombie
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #29099
Nim Lasher is a payoff card, not an engine — its power scales directly with how many artifacts you control, which in a dedicated artifact deck can push it into legitimate threat territory. The cost is that it does nothing on its own: a 1/1 for three mana is unplayable without the supporting infrastructure already in place.
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 |
Nim Lasher is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and artifact-heavy commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Ovika, Enigma Goliath give it the density of permanents it needs to matter. In Pauper it's legal but competes with better common threats that don't require a board state to function. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are non-starters: those formats move too fast for a three-mana 1/1 that needs setup. Stick to Commander, and only in decks where artifacts hit double digits on the battlefield routinely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Nim Lasher is pure bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the card. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is deep; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.