Nyxborn Courser
Enchantment Creature — Centaur Scout
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27198
Nyxborn Courser is a 1/3 reach enchantment creature for three mana — functional enough on paper, but a 1/3 body does nothing meaningful in Commander and reach rarely matters when threats fly over for lethal in one swing. There are better enchantment creatures at every price point, and this one doesn't justify a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nyxborn Courser is a bulk common that never finds a home in competitive or semi-competitive play. In Pauper it's outclassed by commons with actual board impact, and in Modern or Pioneer there's no deck that wants a vanilla-adjacent 1/3 for three. Commander is where enchantment creatures get their best case — Tuvasa the Sunlit, Sythis, Harvest's Hand, and similar commanders care about enchantments entering the battlefield — but Nyxborn Courser offers no enters-the-battlefield effect, no aura subtype synergy, and a body too small to trade with anything relevant at that stage of the game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Nyxborn Courser is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in trade binders as filler. The price accurately reflects the card's power level, and it won't appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.