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Nihil Spellbomb

Artifact1 generic mana

Graveyard hate that doesn't cost you a card is the pitch, and the death trigger is what gives the card its staying power past the run of one-shot disruption artifacts that exile a yard and ask nothing else. Any deck can run it as a single-mana answer to flashback, delve, dredge, or reanimation, holding it until a graveyard is worth attacking, then tapping and sacrificing to wipe one player's clean. That colorless mode pays a real cost, because the replacement draw is gated behind a black source: sacrifice without Black mana untapped and you are simply down a card. The black version is the value play, paying Black mana on the death trigger to swap the spellbomb for a fresh draw so you are never stuck holding a dead artifact waiting for a target. That clause earns a narrow hate piece its longevity. Most situational answers commit a slot you might never need; this one converts into a cantrip the moment a black mana is available, which lets it sit in a deck with no specific reason to fear graveyards and still pull weight. The targeting matters too: it hits a single player's graveyard, not all of them, so against multiple recursion threats it answers one and forces a choice. As a tap-and-sacrifice artifact it telegraphs early and exiles totally rather than surgically, but the price of admission stays low enough that running it rarely feels like a tax.

Nihil Spellbomb (som)
SOM · #187common
Pricing
Normal: $2.62
Foil: $19.42
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay Black mana. If you do, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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