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Nurturing Pixie

Creature — Faerie Rogue

Flying
When this creature enters, return up to one target non-Faerie, nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand. If a permanent was returned this way, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#14858
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Nurturing Pixie card art
Nurturing Pixie is a one-mana creature that bounces a target creature you control back to hand — a trivial cost that becomes a repeatable engine the moment you pair it with commanders like Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle or God-Eternal Oketra. Outside of those synergy shells it does nothing, but inside them it does a lot of work for a single white mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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God-Eternal Oketra

God-Eternal Oketra

23.4% of decks · synergy 0.23

God-Eternal Oketra turns every creature cast into a 4/4 Zombie token, so each time Nurturing Pixie bounces and replays a creature you're generating a free body — stack this with a cheap recursive creature and the board fills fast.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Nurturing Pixie is legal across every major constructed format but is functionally a Commander card. In eternal formats like Legacy and Vintage the effect is too low-impact to compete for a slot; Modern and Pioneer have faster, higher-ceiling payoffs for a one-mana white creature. Commander is where Nurturing Pixie actually earns its spot, specifically in creature-ETB and graveyard-recursion strategies that can loop it repeatedly for value. Outside of a dedicated combo shell, it belongs in the binder regardless of format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

7 decks
Clement, the WorrywortIntruder AlarmNurturing Pixie

Clement, the WorrywortIntruder AlarmNurturing Pixie

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Nurturing Pixie is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or in a draft chaff pile. Bulk combo pieces with narrow homes rarely appreciate, so grab it for the deck you need it for now and don't count on the price moving.

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