Chthonian Nightmare
Modern Horizons 3 330 • rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Collector number
- 330
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Thomas M. Baxa
- Market price
- $4.91
What it does
When this enchantment enters, you get E symbol E symbol E symbol (three energy counters).
Pay X E symbol, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Chthonian Nightmare was released in 2024 as part of the Modern Horizons 3 expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Designed specifically for the Modern format, this set was crafted by Wizards of the Coast to introduce powerful new cards and iconic reimaginings that bypass the standard rotation of the game's core sets. The card reflects the set's thematic exploration of high-power interaction, drawing mechanically from earlier graveyard-recursive engines to offer players a repeatable way to trade small creatures for more potent threats from the graveyard.
The art was rendered by Thomas M. Baxa, a veteran illustrator whose work has appeared in Magic: The Gathering since the mid-1990s. Baxa is known for his signature dark, visceral, and sometimes grotesque aesthetic, which aligns with the card’s title and its thematic roots in Eldrazi-adjacent horror. By emphasizing unsettling biological textures and shadowed forms, the illustration visually communicates the card's ability to pull creatures out of the void and into the game, reinforcing the sense of eldritch corruption inherent in the Modern Horizons 3 narrative arc.
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