Nyxborn Triton
Enchantment Creature — Merfolk
Bestow 
(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Enchanted creature gets +2/+3.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Born of the Gods
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #25126
Nyxborn Triton is a 2/1 flash creature that bestows a +1/+2 buff onto another creature — modest stats for three mana, and the bestow cost of five mana is steep for what amounts to a small defensive boost. It sees play almost exclusively in dedicated enchantress or Theros-flavored builds that want any enchantment creature body, not because the card is good.
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 Triton is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees negligible play in all of them. In Commander, it occasionally surfaces in Tatsunari, Toad Rider or Siona, Captain of the Pyleas shells that are explicitly counting enchantment creatures, not evaluating individual card quality. In Pauper, where commons see the most scrutiny, the rate is simply too poor — five mana for a +1/+2 aura is unplayable when Armadillo Cloak and Ethereal Armor exist at lower costs. Nyxborn Triton's only real argument across every format is that it's both a creature and an enchantment simultaneously, and even that niche is crowded.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Nyxborn Triton sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price accurately reflects its demand — there's no competitive pressure or casual breakout context pushing it higher. It holds no meaningful value and is unlikely to move unless an enchantment-creature-counting Commander gets printed that specifically rewards low-power Theros filler.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.