Starfield of Nyx
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
As long as you control five or more enchantments, each other non-Aura enchantment you control is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $16.02
- EDHREC rank
- #2172
Starfield of Nyx turns a passive enchantment board into a creature army every upkeep — and when five or more enchantments are in play, it becomes a recursive engine that blankets the game. The cost is real: animating your own enchantments makes them vulnerable to creature removal, and Touch the Spirit Realm or any bounce spell can undo a field in one move, but Anikthea, Hand of Erebos builds exactly the density to make that trade worth taking.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos puts enchantment copies directly into play from the graveyard, so Starfield of Nyx's recursion trigger and its animate-five threshold are both trivially online by the mid-game. The synergy score of 0.66 is the highest on this list for good reason — Starfield is one of the deck's primary payoffs.
Zur, Eternal Schemer
Zur, Eternal Schemer animates non-Aura enchantments as creatures with deathtouch, lifelink, and hexproof, so Starfield of Nyx stacks a second animation layer on top and extends the same treatment to Auras that Zur ignores. The overlap between what Zur wants (enchantments on the battlefield) and what Starfield rewards (density) is near-perfect.
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Aminatou, Veil Piercer strips opponent enchantments and fills your own board, making Starfield of Nyx's five-enchantment threshold easy to hit while the opponent's defenses thin. At 51% inclusion across 16,000 decks, it's a near-staple in the archetype.
Narci, Fable Singer
Narci, Fable Singer drains life whenever an enchantment leaves the battlefield, and Starfield of Nyx's recursion loop — return an enchantment from the yard to the field each upkeep — triggers Narci repeatedly across a long game. The two cards form a soft value engine that doesn't require combat to close out.
Yuna, Hope of Spira
Yuna, Hope of Spira tutors Aeons and Summons directly into play, generating the enchantment density Starfield of Nyx needs to animate and recur while keeping the board stocked without hand investment. It's a narrower pairing than the top of this list, but the threshold math lines up cleanly.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Starfield of Nyx does its real work — enchantress strategies in the 99 have both the density to hit five enchantments consistently and the long game to cash in on repeated recursion. In competitive Commander it's fringe at best, because a five-mana enchantment that doesn't immediately affect the board is too slow for cEDH's turn-three kill windows. In Legacy and Vintage, Starfield of Nyx is legal but sees essentially no play; those formats have no use for a five-mana enchantment engine when faster, cheaper options exist. Pioneer is where it has the most potential outside Commander — enchantment-heavy midrange decks can reach five enchantments on board, though the format's removal density makes the animate clause a liability. Oathbreaker plays like a compressed Commander game, so the same enchantress shells that want it in EDH want it there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Starfield of NyxParallax Wave
Exile all creatures opponents control; Exile all creatures that enter the battlefield under an opponent's control; Infinite blinking; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Day of the DragonsStarfield of Nyx
Draw the game; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Lunar ForceStarfield of NyxAssault Suit
Counter all spells opponents cast; Lock
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the recursion clause is the draw, Replenish costs more but does the job in a single burst — going the other direction, Triumphant Reckoning is in the same price neighborhood and gets artifacts too, though it's a one-shot effect rather than a standing engine. If the animate clause is what you're after, Opalescence does it for every enchantment simultaneously and without the five-enchantment gate, at a comparable or slightly lower price depending on the market; the trade-off is that Opalescence doesn't recur anything and can shrink your lands if you're running non-basic enchantment lands. Starfield of Nyx is the only card that packages both effects in one slot, which is the actual justification for running it over either substitute.
Price Context
Current price
$16.02 mid tier
At $16.02, Starfield of Nyx sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to be a real deckbuilding decision, cheap enough that it's not a chase card. It's been reprinted, which keeps the floor from climbing, and its demand is stable because enchantress is a perennial Commander archetype rather than a spike-driven trend.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.