Nadir Kraken
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Whenever you draw a card, you may pay 1. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
Combos with Nadir Kraken
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Jalira, Master Polymorphist Timestream Navigator Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit Intruder Alarm Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite rummaging
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite untap of all creatures
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Dire Undercurrents Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Dire Undercurrents Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Dire Undercurrents Thermopod Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Species Specialist Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Species Specialist Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-01-24
You choose whether to pay 1 after drawing the card and seeing what it is. If you draw multiple cards, you see them all before deciding how many of the resulting triggers you'll pay 1 for.
- 2020-01-24
If Nadir Kraken leaves the battlefield after its ability has triggered, you can still pay 1 and get a Tentacle, even though you won't put a +1/+1 counter on Nadir Kraken.
- 2020-01-24
While resolving Nadir Kraken's ability, you can't pay 1 multiple times to create multiple Tentacles or to give it multiple +1/+1 counters.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Nadir Kraken, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign | 2 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 2 decks
Nadir Kraken price history
The Foundations Jumpstart #332 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Nov 1, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.33 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Nadir Kraken
9 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.25
- Normal
- $0.38
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Normal
- $0.48
March of the Machine Commander
- Normal
- $0.35
- Normal
- $0.47
Extended Art
- Normal
- $4.34
- Foil
- $9.27
- Normal
- $0.33
- Foil
- $0.59
Promo
Theros Beyond Death Promos
- Normal
- $0.61
- Foil
- $1.36
Promo
Theros Beyond Death Promos
- Foil
- $2.76
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nadir Kraken. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
