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Nylea, Keen-Eyed

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Theros Beyond Death
Price
$6.51
EDHREC rank
#3355
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Nylea, Keen-Eyed card art
Nylea, Keen-Eyed puts a static cost reduction on every creature you cast and turns excess mana into a creature-fetching engine — both effects on a single indestructible body is a strong deal for five mana. Creature-heavy decks like Nikya of the Old Ways that can't run noncreature spells lean on her hard, and she slots into any artifact-creature shell like Scrap Trawler where the discount compounds across repeated casts.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Nikya of the Old Ways

Nikya of the Old Ways

40.4% of decks · synergy 0.38

Nikya of the Old Ways locks out noncreature spells, so Nylea, Keen-Eyed fills the role of cost reduction and card filtering without breaking that restriction — 40% of Nikya decks run her for exactly that reason.

02
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

38.9% of decks · synergy 0.35

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma already reduces the cost of power-4-or-greater creatures, and stacking Nylea, Keen-Eyed on top means your big threats arrive one to two mana cheaper, letting you flood the board faster than opponents can answer.

03
Karametra, God of Harvests

Karametra, God of Harvests

24.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Karametra, God of Harvests triggers off every creature cast, so Nylea, Keen-Eyed's activated ability and cost reduction both translate directly into more landfall triggers and more mana to chain creatures together.

04
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron

Agatha of the Vile Cauldron

22.9% of decks · synergy 0.21

Agatha of the Vile Cauldron rewards you for spending mana equal to a creature's power as one action, and Nylea, Keen-Eyed's discount makes those activations cheaper while her dig ability finds the high-power creatures that make Agatha's payoff spike.

05
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

20.7% of decks · synergy 0.20

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wants a constant stream of creatures entering the battlefield, and Nylea, Keen-Eyed's combination of cost reduction and mid-combat filtering keeps that stream moving when the hand runs dry.

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

Commander is where Nylea, Keen-Eyed earns her keep — five mana buys a persistent discount engine and a repeatable tutor on an indestructible body, and creature-dense green strategies are exactly the shells that reward both halves. In competitive EDH she's too slow and too fair; fast combo decks don't want a five-drop that does nothing the turn it lands. In Pioneer and Modern she's legal but largely ignored, because those formats move faster than a 3/3 with a tap-to-dig ability can keep up with, and dedicated creature-cost-reduction tools either come cheaper or do more. Legacy and Vintage have access to every green engine ever printed, which pushes her out entirely. Oathbreaker could give her a home in a green creature shell, though the format's lower life totals and faster pace make the five-mana slot competitive.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Elvish Piper covers the filtering angle differently — it cheats creatures directly into play rather than discounting them, which is often stronger but requires a creature already in hand. For the cost-reduction half specifically, Urza's Incubator or Herald's Horn (in tribal builds) get there for under $3 each, though neither staples a body and a second ability onto the same card the way Nylea, Keen-Eyed does.

Price Context

Current price

$6.51 mid tier

At $6.51, Nylea, Keen-Eyed sits in the mid tier — affordable enough to include on a moderate budget, expensive enough that you want to be sure the deck actually wants both a cost reducer and a creature-fetching engine on the same card. Demand is steady across creature-heavy green builds, so the price is unlikely to crater, but it also won't spike unless a new commander pushes creature-spam strategies into the mainstream.

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