Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
T: Add .
2, T: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Combos with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
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.
- Wakeroot Elemental Infinite
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Silvanus's Invoker Infinite
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Gretchen Titchwillow Oboro Breezecaller Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite landfall triggers
- Near-infinite mana among colors with which you have devotion
- Magus of the Candelabra Maze of Ith Infinite
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Argothian Elder Wirewood Lodge Infinite
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Felidar Guardian Deadeye Navigator Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana among colors with which you have devotion
- Mind Over Matter Bestial Bloodline Infinite
- Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Lilysplash Mentor Cloud of Faeries Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Infinite creature ETB
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
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2013-09-15
The second ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
- 2013-09-15
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
- 2013-09-15
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
- 2013-09-15
Numeric mana symbols ({0}, {1}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- 2013-09-15
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer | 1 | 1 | — |
| Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait | 1 | 0 | — |
| Aphelia, Viper Whisperer | 1 | 0 | — |
| Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh | 1 | 0 | — |
| Forest | 1 | 0 | — |
| Giada, Font of Hope | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kratos, God of War | 1 | 0 | — |
| Marrow-Gnawer | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 5 decks
- Mono-Green 3 decks
- Mono-Red 2 decks
- Mono-White 2 decks
- Golgari 1 deck
- Dimir 1 deck
- Simic 1 deck
- Orzhov 1 deck
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx price history
The Theros #223 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $47.63 | $157.94 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $48.09 | $157.94 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $48.73 | $157.94 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $48.23 | $157.94 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $48.94 | $157.94 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $49.46 | $157.94 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $50.91 | $158.23 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $52.28 | $158.23 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
3 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.
Promo
Pro Tour Promos
- Normal
- $71.50
- Foil
- $254.66
The List
- Normal
- $57.24
Theros
- Normal
- $47.63
- Foil
- $157.94
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, Shrine to Nyx. 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.
