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Nightscape Familiar

Creature — Zombie MV 2

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What it does

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.

1: Regenerate this creature.

Combos with Nightscape Familiar

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.

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

10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2004-10-04

    Can never affect the colored part of the cost.

  • 2004-10-04

    The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell's cost.

  • 2004-10-04

    This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.

  • 2004-10-04

    If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell's cost, the cost reduction still applies.

  • 2004-10-04

    The effect is cumulative.

  • 2004-10-04

    The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.

  • 2022-12-08

    A spell you cast that’s blue and red costs 1 less, not 2 less.

  • 2022-12-08

    Activating the ability creates a replacement effect that acts like a shield, replacing the next time Nightscape Familiar would be destroyed that turn. This shield works against effects that try to destroy Nightscape Familiar or lethal damage that would be dealt to Nightscape Familiar.

  • 2022-12-08

    Nightscape Familiar can regenerate even if it isn’t in combat, it’s already tapped, or it’s undamaged.

  • 2022-12-08

    You can activate the regeneration ability even if Nightscape Familiar isn’t at risk of being destroyed.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Nightscape Familiar, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Nekusar, the Mindrazer 1 0 —
Sauron, the Dark Lord 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Grixis 2 decks

Every version of Nightscape Familiar

8 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nightscape Familiar. 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.