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Nomads en-Kor

Creature — Kor Nomad Soldier

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
World Championship Decks 1998
Price
$0.53
EDHREC rank
#12683
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Nomads en-Kor card art
Nomads en-Kor redirects damage to any target creature you control at will — an ability with no activation cost beyond tapping, making it an infinite damage-redirection engine the moment you pair it with a creature that wants to be targeted repeatedly. Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer turns every one of those redirections into a poison counter removal and a life payment, and Monk Gyatso converts those life payments directly into damage, which is why Nomads en-Kor shows up in nearly 19% of Anti-Venom decks.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

18.7% of decks · synergy 0.17

Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer pays life whenever a creature you control loses poison counters, and Nomads en-Kor lets you redirect damage to the same creature an arbitrary number of times in a single combat step — triggering Anti-Venom's ability as many times as you have mana to pay, which in practice means infinite life loss for opponents once you have the full engine assembled.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Nomads en-Kor is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play — the damage-redirection loop is too slow and narrow for Legacy or Vintage, where it never made a dent competitively. In Pauper it's technically legal but the combo pieces it needs don't assemble cleanly at common, so it sits unused there too. Commander is its home: the 100-card singleton format gives you enough room to build around the engine, and the longer game means the setup cost is acceptable.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.53 bulk tier

At $0.53, Nomads en-Kor is bulk — you're paying for a functional combo piece, not a staple with broad demand. The price is stable at this level; it won't creep up unless a new commander dramatically expands its combo surface beyond Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.