Toxic Nim
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #19469
Toxic Nim hits the board as a potentially massive evasive threat — base 1/1 with infect, it gets +1/+1 for each poison counter your opponents have accumulated, turning a mid-to-late game board into lethal reach. The catch is the five-mana cost on a body that starts at 1/1 and requires setup to be dangerous, which makes it a build-around rather than a standalone threat. In Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon decks that are already poisoning the table, Toxic Nim closes games that Skithiryx cracked open.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon is the natural home — it distributes poison counters fast, often in chunks of four or more, which means Toxic Nim lands on a board where it's already a 4/4 or larger with infect and can finish whoever Skithiryx left at low poison counts.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Toxic Nim is a payoff card for dedicated infect strategies — it does nothing in a vacuum and everything when your poison sub-theme is firing, so it belongs only in decks built to abuse proliferate or stack poison counters quickly. Pauper is where Toxic Nim actually has a case outside of niche tribal builds, since the infect archetype runs aggressive commons and a late-game mana sink that grows off accumulated poison pressure is at least thematically coherent, though the five-mana cost is steep for that format's tempo. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Toxic Nim's ceiling requires a poison-stacked board state that those formats never allow to develop. The card is essentially Commander-or-nothing for competitive purposes.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Toxic Nim sits firmly in bulk territory — it's a freely available pickup that costs nothing to test. Bulk infect payoffs don't tend to spike unless an infect commander breaks into the mainstream, so expect the price to stay flat.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.