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Nihilith
Oracle Text
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Suspend 7—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with seven time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this card is suspended, you may remove a time counter from this card.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Nihilith is a classic delayed threat that fits best in control, disruption, or graveyard-hate shells, where you can turn the opponent’s own churn into acceleration. Its suspended form is the real attraction: every card that hits an opponent’s graveyard from anywhere shaves off time counters, so fetch lands, discard, mill, sacrifice effects, and even removal that sends cards from hand or battlefield to the graveyard can speed it up dramatically. In Commander, pair it with wheels, self-mill punishment, or black sacrifice engines to make the Horror arrive far earlier than turn seven. Once it resolves, a 4/4 body with fear is a respectable finisher in a deck that already pressures boards with black creatures or artifact tokens, since many decks will struggle to block it profitably. The lore feels appropriately ominous: a creeping catastrophe that feeds on decay, growing nearer as the table’s resources collapse.
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Character Background
Nihilith is a classic delayed threat that fits best in control, disruption, or graveyard-hate shells, where you can turn the opponent’s own churn into acceleration. Its suspended form is the real attraction: every card that hits an opponent’s graveyard from anywhere shaves off time counters, so fetch lands, discard, mill, sacrifice effects, and even removal that sends cards from hand or battlefield to the graveyard can speed it up dramatically. In Commander, pair it with wheels, self-mill punishment, or black sacrifice engines to make the Horror arrive far earlier than turn seven. Once it resolves, a 4/4 body with fear is a respectable finisher in a deck that already pressures boards with black creatures or artifact tokens, since many decks will struggle to block it profitably. The lore feels appropriately ominous: a creeping catastrophe that feeds on decay, growing nearer as the table’s resources collapse.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 19:10:44 UTC