Parallax Nexus
Enchantment
Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Target opponent exiles a card from their hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to their hand all cards they own exiled with it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #27789
Parallax Nexus lets you exile your opponents' hands entirely — five fade counters means five cards gone before they untap, and with the right abuse you can loop the effect indefinitely. The cost is real: it asks for a dedicated engine to recur it, and it does nothing the turn you play it if someone removes it.
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 |
In Commander, Parallax Nexus is a role-player in dedicated combo or stax shells — it strips hands before a combo turn or locks out opponents who rely on instants for interaction. Legacy and Vintage see it only in fringe lists that abuse the fade counter mechanic or pair it with flicker effects, but it has never broken through in either format because the three-turn clock on its counters is too slow against fast combo. In Oathbreaker the compressed game pace and lower life totals make the hand-exile more punishing, and it pairs cleanly with planeswalker activations that add counters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Parallax Nexus sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough that picking up copies is nearly free if the combo appeals to you. It has been reprinted enough times to keep supply healthy, so there is no meaningful price pressure pushing it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.