Nightmare Shepherd
Nightmare Shepherd: Enchantment Creature - Demon, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Enchantment Creature - Demon
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 149
- Artist
- Tyler Jacobson
- Commander rank
- 4,220 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying
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About Nightmare Shepherd
Nightmare Shepherd is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black enchantment creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 149 in that set, with art by Tyler Jacobson. It costs {2}{B}{B} (two generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 4/4 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Theros Beyond Death (2020) to Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.32 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.32 (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 Nightmare Shepherd by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| 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 Nightmare Shepherd
Nightmare Shepherd has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #79905 | Rare | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death Promos (PTHB) #108p | Rare | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death Promos (PTHB) #108s | Rare | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death (THB) #108 | Rare | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death (THB) #315 | Rare | 2020 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Nightmare Shepherd, newest first.
- If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
- If the token is a copy of a creature whose power and toughness are defined by an ability (usually printed as */* or similar), the token doesn't copy the ability that defines its power and toughness. It remains a 1/1 creature.
- The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that had changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
- The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it existed in the graveyard before it was exiled.
- If something becomes a copy of the token, the copy is also a 1/1 and a Nightmare.
- Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.
Similar cards
Other enchantment creature cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Nightmare Shepherd is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.