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Nightmare Incursion

Sorcery5 generic manaBlack mana

Most disruption attacks the hand or the board: this attacks the deck itself, and it does so with surgical reach rather than random discard. The Swamp count is the whole calculus, and notably it asks only for the subtype, so a Bayou or a Watery Grave feeds it just as well as a basic Swamp. In a heavily black-saturated mana base, six mana can excise a meaningful slice of an opponent's library, and because you search and choose, you are not hoping to hit the dangerous card; you are picking it out and exiling it where no recursion can reach. That puts it in a peculiar niche between the punisher decks that strip a hand bare and the mill strategies that grind a deck to nothing. It does neither cleanly. It is too slow and too narrow to function as a tempo play, and too expensive to repeat casually, so its value lives in the singular high-impact removal of a combo piece, a key answer, or a one-of bomb before it can ever be drawn. The cost of that precision is the deckbuilding it demands (a mana base dense enough with Swamp-typed lands to make X worth the sorcery) and a full turn spent doing nothing to the board. What it offers in return is certainty against a known threat, the kind of guarantee that hand attack and counters, both contingent on what the opponent actually draws or casts, can never quite promise.

Nightmare Incursion (eve)
EVE · #40rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.13
Foil: $18.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

Search target player's library for up to X cards, where X is the number of Swamps you control, and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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