Waking Nightmare
Sorcery — Arcane
Target player discards two cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #24278
Waking Nightmare makes one opponent discard two cards at sorcery speed for three mana — that's the whole card. Playable in dedicated discard shells, unplayable everywhere else.
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 |
Waking Nightmare sees its only real home in Commander, where dedicated discard commanders like Tinybones, Trinket Thief or Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted reward piling on discard effects. Even there, it competes against Hymn to Tourach and Blackmail, which hit harder for less mana. In Pauper it's legal but too slow and single-target to make the cut in a format with access to better common discard. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — the bar is simply too high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Waking Nightmare is pure bulk — buy it out of a common box if you need it. No scarcity, no reprint pressure, nothing keeping this from sitting at the floor indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.