Elspeth's Nightmare
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment — Saga
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death #91 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.22 USD
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with power 2 or less.
II — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
III — Exile target opponent's graveyard.
Elspeth's Nightmare has 2 printings, first in Theros Beyond Death (2020). EDHREC ranks it #12,411 among Commander cards. It appears most in Narci, Fable Singer decks (2,720 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Elspeth's Nightmare most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Narci, Fable Singer: 2,720 decks
- Tom Bombadil: 2,046 decks
- Glissa Sunslayer: 246 decks
- Neva, Stalked by Nightmares: 58 decks
- Vadmir, New Blood: 14 decks
- Titania, Rugged Rumbler: 2 decks
Often played with Elspeth's Nightmare
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Once a chapter ability has triggered, the ability on the stack won’t be affected if the Saga gains or loses counters, or if it leaves the battlefield.
- : If multiple chapter abilities trigger at the same time, their controller puts them on the stack in any order. If any of them require targets, those targets are chosen as you put the abilities on the stack, before any of those abilities resolve.
- : Removing lore counters won’t cause a previous chapter ability to trigger. If lore counters are removed from a Saga, the appropriate chapter abilities will trigger again when the Saga receives lore counters.
- : A chapter ability doesn’t trigger if a lore counter is put on a Saga that already had a number of lore counters greater than or equal to that chapter’s number. For example, the third lore counter put on a Saga causes the III chapter ability to trigger, but I and II won’t trigger again.
- : Once the number of lore counters on a Saga is greater than or equal to the greatest number among its chapter abilities, the Saga’s controller sacrifices it as soon as its chapter ability has left the stack, most likely by resolving or being countered. This state-based action doesn’t use the stack.
- : As a Saga enters the battlefield, its controller puts a lore counter on it. As your precombat main phase begins (immediately after your draw step), you put another lore counter on each Saga you control. Putting a lore counter on a Saga in either of these ways doesn’t use the stack.
- : Each symbol on the left of a Saga’s text box represents a chapter ability. A chapter ability is a triggered ability that triggers when a lore counter that is put on the Saga causes the number of lore counters on the Saga to become equal to or greater than the ability’s chapter number. Chapter abilities are put onto the stack and may be responded to.