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Nucklavee

Creature — Beast

When this creature enters, you may return target red sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
When this creature enters, you may return target blue instant card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{U/R}{U/R}
Color identity
RU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#25383
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Nucklavee card art
Nucklavee enters and returns any Sorcery and any Instant from your graveyard to hand — that's a two-card engine refuel stapled to a 5/3 body. The cost is six mana and the creature type Nightmare Horse, which means it lives or dies by how well your deck exploits the blink and recursion lines Ghostly Flicker enables.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Nucklavee is a Commander card front to back — the six-mana cost is acceptable in a 40-life multiplayer game where a single trigger recovering two key spells generates enough value to justify the slot. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant; fair six-drops that don't affect the board immediately don't make those formats' cuts. Modern is the same story: the format has moved too fast for a vanilla-statted creature whose payoff requires survival to the next turn. Commander is where the ceiling is, particularly in Temur or Sultai blink and recursion shells where Nucklavee functions as a redundant Snapcaster effect with a higher floor.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Nucklavee sits in true bulk territory — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. It's a stable bulk rare with a narrow enough niche that no spike in demand is likely to move the needle, so pick up copies freely without any budget concern.

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