Nightstalker Engine
Portal Second Age 81 • rare
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Collector number
- 81
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $0.69
What it does
Nightstalker Engine's power is equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Part metal, part bone, and all death.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Nightstalker Engine was released in 1998 as part of the Portal Second Age expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set was designed specifically as an introductory product to simplify the complex rules of the base game for new players, utilizing a more streamlined aesthetic and thematic focus on the plane of Rath. The card represents the specialized mechanical constructs utilized by the Phyrexians, the primary antagonists of the block, whose lore centers on the integration of biological and mechanical entities.
The visual design of the card, featuring artwork by Ron Spencer, captures the grotesque and biomechanical nature synonymous with the Phyrexians during this era. Spencer, a prominent artist within the game's early development, utilized a dark, visceral style to convey the unsettling atmosphere of the Rath setting. Upon release, the card served as a functional piece of the set's aggressive black-aligned mechanics, though it remains primarily recognized by enthusiasts as a nostalgic artifact of the simplified Portal-era gameplay experiments.
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