Nightmare's Thirst
- Mana cost
- {B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Core Set 2019 #111 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.14 USD
You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Nightmare's Thirst has 1 printing, first in Core Set 2019 (2018). EDHREC ranks it #19,337 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gollum, Obsessed Stalker decks (236 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Nightmare's Thirst most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gollum, Obsessed Stalker: 236 decks
- Tivash, Gloom Summoner: 193 decks
- Sol'kanar the Swamp King: 68 decks
- Nazar, the Velvet Fang: 66 decks
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit: 2 decks
- Xun Yu, Wei Advisor: 1 decks
Often played with Nightmare's Thirst
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Nightmare’s Thirst counts how much life you’ve gained this turn, not how much your life total changed. For example, if you’ve gained 5 life and lost 8 before Nightmare’s Thirst resolves, Nightmare’s Thirst has you gain 1 more life, then it gives the target creature -6/-6.
- : If the target creature is an illegal target when Nightmare’s Thirst tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain 1 life.