Nettlecyst
Nettlecyst: Artifact - Equipment, Foundations Commander. Living weapon. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Artifact - Equipment
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Foundations Commander (FDC)
- Released
- 2026-10-02
- Collector number
- 275
- Artist
- Vincent Proce
- Commander rank
- 1,040 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Equip, Living weapon
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About Nettlecyst
Nettlecyst is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Foundations Commander (FDC), released in October 2026. It is collector number 275 in that set, with art by Vincent Proce. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Modern Horizons 2 (2021) to Foundations Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.20 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control.
Equip {2}
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.20 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Nettlecyst by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Nettlecyst
Nettlecyst has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #91379 | Rare | 2024 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #233 | Rare | 2024 |
| March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #367 | Rare | 2023 |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #752 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #231 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #471 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 Promos (PMH2) #231s | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Nettlecyst, newest first.
- The Phyrexian Germ token enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature and the Equipment becomes attached to it before state-based actions would cause the token to die. Abilities that trigger as the token enters the battlefield see that a 0/0 creature entered the battlefield.
- If a permanent you control is both an artifact and an enchantment, count it only once when determining the bonus from an equipped Nettlecyst.
- If the living weapon trigger causes two Phyrexian Germs to be created (due to an effect such as that of Doubling Season), the Equipment becomes attached to one of them. The other will be put into your graveyard and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
- Like other Equipment, each Equipment with living weapon has an equip cost. You can pay this cost to attach an Equipment to another creature you control. Once the Phyrexian Germ token is no longer equipped, it will be put into your graveyard and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
- If the Phyrexian Germ token is destroyed, the Equipment remains on the battlefield as with any other Equipment.
- The living weapon ability has been updated so that the triggered ability creates Phyrexian Germ tokens rather than Germ tokens. This update applies to all cards with living weapon.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Nettlecyst is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.