Nothic
Creature — Horror
Weird Insight — When this creature dies, roll a d20.
1—9 | You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
10—19 | You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
20 | You draw seven cards and you lose 7 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #15155
Nothic trades blows with small creatures while stripping cards from opponents' hands — a two-for-one threat on a 2/3 body for three mana. Mr. House, President and CEO decks run it because rolling dice to trigger abilities is exactly what the deck does anyway, and hand disruption accelerates the table's clock in your favor.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mr. House, President and CEO
Mr. House, President and CEO generates dice rolls constantly, and Nothic converts those rolls into forced discards that starve opponents of interaction right when the combo engine is spinning up.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Nothic actually sees play — three mana for a body that disrupts hands fits the dice-roll synergy decks built around Mr. House, President and CEO, and hand disruption in a multiplayer game compounds quickly across three opponents. Outside Commander, Nothic is legal in Legacy and Vintage but has never found a foothold; a 2/3 for three with a conditional discard trigger doesn't clear the bar in formats where efficient threats and interaction are far cheaper. Oathbreaker is theoretically viable, but the smaller game size dilutes the hand-disruption value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Nothic is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. There's no pressure driving the price up, and it will stay in this tier unless a breakout Commander build pushes demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.