Nightmare
Magic 2014 108 • rare
- Set
- Magic 2014
- Collector number
- 108
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 5 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Vance Kovacs
- Market price
- $0.23
What it does
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
The thunder of its hooves beats dreams into despair.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Nightmare first appeared in the Alpha set of Magic: The Gathering in 1993, representing the quintessential black creature that grows in strength based on the player's control of Swamp lands. As a staple of the game's early identity, it was designed to reward players for committing heavily to a single color, establishing a mechanical template for scaling power that would influence many future cards. Its presence in the Magic 2014 core set served as a tribute to this legacy, featuring updated artwork by Aleksi Briclot.
For the Magic 2014 printing, Briclot aimed to capture the ethereal, haunting quality of the creature while utilizing modern digital illustration techniques. The design emphasizes the spectral, skeletal nature of the nightmare, moving away from the more literal, horse-like renderings found in earlier iterations. The card was received by the player base as a nostalgic inclusion that maintained the creature's status as a reliable, if traditional, finisher in limited environments.
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