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Nightmare
Limited Edition Alpha · Rare · Illustrated by Melissa A. Benson · 1993
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Price history
Daily NM closing price · TCGplayer
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| Condition | Price | vs NM | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NM | $1399.99 | 100% | Scryfall |
| LP | $1217.99 | 87% | - |
| MP | $1021.99 | 73% | - |
| HP | $811.99 | 58% | - |
| DMG | $574.00 | 41% | - |
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Format Profile
⚔Multi-format staple - legal in Modern, Legacy, and Vintage
Lore & Trivia
Card Lore
Nightmare is a creature type representing terrifying manifestations of fear and the unconscious mind, primarily black but appearing across multiple colors. The type encompasses everything from spectral horses to manifested personal terrors, with notable appearances in planes like Theros, Ravnica, Eldraine, and Duskmourn.
First Nightmare card was the original Nightmare from Alpha, a black flying horse powered by swampsAshiok, a planeswalker, can cull nightmares from minds and manifest them in realityOn Duskmourn, nightmares are individual embodiments of specific fears that grow stronger when multiple people share the same fearDementia casters like Chainer can summon Nightmare Horrors from their personal dementia spaceNightmares are single-minded and only target those who created them, forcing victims to relive their core fear
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💡 When Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths had a strong tribal theme in vision design, Nightmares were the black-centered tribe. They would have been Insects, had Creative not pushed for something more lovable.
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Melissa A. Benson
Limited Edition Alpha · #118 · 1993
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