Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Mole Beast
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 5
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal #109 (rare)
- Price
- $0.20 USD
When Nyla enters, exile up to one target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, you lose X life and create X Clue tokens, where X is that card's mana value. (A Clue token is an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no Clues, return target card exiled with Nyla to its owner's hand.
Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth has 2 printings, first in Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (2025). EDHREC ranks it #20,354 among Commander cards. It appears most in June, Bounty Hunter decks (178 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- June, Bounty Hunter: 178 decks
- Azula, On the Hunt: 44 decks
- Zhao, Ruthless Admiral: 43 decks
- Katara, Seeking Revenge: 33 decks
- Zuko, Seeking Honor: 12 decks
- Hammerhead, Maggia Boss: 2 decks
Often played with Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Creating a Clue token this way isn't the same thing as investigating. Notably, an ability that triggers whenever you investigate won't trigger because of creating a Clue token this way.
- : Clue tokens are artifact tokens with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card."
- : Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth's second ability has an "intervening 'if' clause." That means the ability won't trigger at all unless you control no Clues at the beginning of your end step, and the ability will do nothing if you control a Clue by the time it resolves.
- : If Nyla leaves the battlefield before you return the card to your hand with the last ability, the card remains exiled without a way to return it to its owner's hand. If Nyla returns to the battlefield as a new object (such as if you airbend it and cast it again), it doesn't maintain connection to cards exiled by Nyla previously, and they cannot be targeted to return by the current Nyla.