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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$56.36
EDHREC rank
#170
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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx card art
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx converts devotion into explosive mana — tap it in a deck running eight blue pips and it out-produces Sol Ring by turn four. The cost is real: it enters tapped, costs two to activate, and is dead weight in low-devotion builds, but commanders like Clive, Ifrit's Dominant pack enough monocolored symbols to make it one of the most backbreaking lands in Commander. If your deck is heavily devoted to one color, this is a must-include; if it's three colors splashing everything, skip it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant

56.7% of decks · synergy 0.37

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant is a devotion machine — his red-heavy card text and the mono-red permanents he incentivizes stack pips fast, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx turns that density into the kind of mana that lets Clive's battlefield snowball before opponents can answer it.

02
Captain Sisay

Captain Sisay

33.0% of decks · synergy 0.28

Captain Sisay tutors legendary permanents, and legendary permanents in green tend to pile up green pips; Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx converts that pile into the mana needed to chain legendary threats turn after turn without missing a beat.

03
Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

40.0% of decks · synergy 0.24

Azami, Lady of Scrolls fills the board with Wizards, and Wizards in mono-blue are thick with blue pips — Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx lets that creature density translate directly into the massive blue mana payments that fuel draw-and-win loops.

04
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

49.2% of decks · synergy 0.23

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard tutors creatures onto the battlefield one verse counter at a time, building a board of green permanents dense with green symbols; Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx converts that devotion into the mana needed to keep Yisan's engine running at full speed.

05
Kratos, God of War

Kratos, God of War

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

Kratos, God of War rewards going tall with high-power creatures, and those creatures tend to carry heavy green and red pips; Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx turns that devotion into the bursts of mana that let Kratos threaten lethal damage ahead of schedule.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is format-defining in mono-color and heavily devoted builds — it routinely generates five or more mana off a single activation by mid-game, which no basic land comes close to matching. In Modern, it anchors devotion-based green stompy and mono-green combo decks, frequently pairing with creatures that untap lands to generate near-infinite mana. Pioneer is where Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx has historically been most broken in a competitive context, enabling turns where a player generates ten or more green mana and empties their hand; it has drawn serious format scrutiny there. Legacy and Vintage have stronger competition from fast mana, so Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx sees narrower play, mostly in dedicated devotion shells that can guarantee high pip counts.

Key Combos

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No land replicates Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx exactly, but Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun comes closest in green — it converts creature count into green mana and costs a fraction of the price, though it counts creatures rather than pips and is restricted to green. For non-green builds looking for explosive mana, Cabal Coffers fills a similar role in black (creatures-as-swamps aside), and Extraplanar Lens can mirror Nykthos's upside in mono-color decks by doubling basic land production — both are cheaper and viable replacements when the pip density for Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx isn't reliably high enough to justify the cost.

Price Context

Current price

$56.36 premium tier

At $56.36, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx sits firmly in the premium tier — justified by its power level across multiple formats and its status as a unique effect with no true functional reprint. It has held value well historically because demand spans Commander, Modern, and Pioneer simultaneously, so this is one of the safer premium land purchases for a serious collection.

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