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Witch-Maw Nephilim

Creature — Nephilim

Whenever you cast a spell, you may put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Whenever this creature attacks, it gains trample until end of turn if its power is 10 or greater.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{G}{W}{U}{B}
Color identity
BGUW
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$0.62
EDHREC rank
#21798
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Witch-Maw Nephilim card art
Witch-Maw Nephilim can become an arbitrarily large trample threat with very little setup — a single spell that costs four or more mana doubles its power, and Animation Module turns every counter trigger into a free servo that fuels the next attack. The cost is a four-color identity that locks you into Yore-Tiller, Chaos Incarnate, or Nephilim-specific Commander builds.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Witch-Maw Nephilim gets to do its best work, either as the commander itself in a four-color shell or as a curve-topper in decks that already cast expensive spells. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with threats that win faster and don't require five turns of combat math. Oathbreaker is a fringe possibility in a high-CMC signature-spell build, but the four-color requirement makes slotting Witch-Maw Nephilim into any existing shell a real deckbuilding constraint.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.62 bulk tier

At $0.62, Witch-Maw Nephilim is firmly bulk — demand is narrow enough that the price has nowhere meaningful to go. Pick it up for pocket change whenever you're building around it; there's no reason to pay more than a dollar for a copy.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.