Nim Shrieker
Creature — Zombie
Flying
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #27263
Nim Shrieker swings in as a 5/1 flier for four mana — that's a threat-sized body — but only if you're running enough artifacts to keep it pumped, which most decks can't guarantee. In anything short of a dedicated artifact shell, it's an overcosted 1/1 with wings.
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 Shrieker is a Pauper card at heart — artifact-heavy commons-only decks can reliably hit four or five artifacts in play, making it a legitimate air threat at common rarity. In Commander, the bar is higher: you need a critical mass of artifacts just to get a statline worth the four-mana investment, which limits it to dedicated artifact commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Karn, Silver Golem. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have far more efficient fliers, so Nim Shrieker sees essentially no play in those formats.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Nim Shrieker is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. The price reflects its narrow playability; it's only worth sleeving in Pauper artifact builds where the condition is trivially met.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.