Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth
Legendary Creature — Mole Beast
When Nyla enters, exile up to one target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, you lose X life and create X Clue tokens, where X is that card's mana value. (A Clue token is an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no Clues, return target card exiled with Nyla to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #20279
Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth puts a poison-counter-dealing, tracking creature on the board that can paralyze opponents while generating investigation value — the payoff is real. The cost is a narrow condition: you need to be in an infect or poison-counter strategy for Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth to earn her slot.
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 Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth belongs — poison strategies have a critical mass of support in the format, and a 100-card singleton environment rewards the niche synergies she enables. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but neither format's poison builds are looking for a five-mana creature with no immediate game-breaking effect. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case worth watching: if poison-counter oathbreaker shells develop, Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth is a natural fit.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in. Bulk rares with narrow tribal or mechanic dependencies rarely climb unless the archetype breaks out, so treat this as a low-risk, low-ceiling inclusion.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.