Nykthos Paragon
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever you gain life, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Do this only once each turn.
Combos with Nykthos Paragon
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.
- Emiel the Blessed Crystalline Crawler Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-06-18
Once you have chosen to put +1/+1 counters on your creatures, further instances of gaining life will not cause the ability to trigger.
- 2021-06-18
If multiple instances of the ability are on the stack, you will be able to put +1/+1 counters for only one of those instances. Once you do that, other instances will do nothing as they resolve.
- 2021-06-18
If a creature you control is dealt lethal damage at the same time that you gain life, it won't receive +1/+1 counters from Nykthos Paragon's ability in time to save it.
- 2021-06-18
Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time and you haven't used it yet, Nykthos Paragon's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
- 2021-06-18
"Do this only once each turn" refers to putting +1/+1 counters on your creatures using the triggered ability. As long as you haven't yet chosen to put +1/+1 counters on your creatures with it, all instances of gaining life will cause Nykthos Paragon's ability to trigger.
- 2021-06-18
"Do this only once each turn" refers only to the ability it is attached to, not other instances of the same ability. In other words, if you control multiple Nykthos Paragons, you will be able to do this once for each of them.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Nykthos Paragon, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn | 1 | 0 | — |
| Trostani, Selesnya's Voice | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Selesnya 2 decks
Every version of Nykthos Paragon
5 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.
Foundations Jumpstart
- Normal
- $0.69
The List
- Normal
- $0.65
- Normal
- $1.07
- Foil
- $1.72
Showcase
- Normal
- $0.83
- Foil
- $0.82
Promo
Modern Horizons 2 Promos
- Foil
- $3.73
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nykthos Paragon. 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.
