Recurring Nightmare
Recurring Nightmare is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Exodus printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€65.43) · TCGplayer ($82.06) · Scryfall
How often Recurring Nightmare is played
Recurring Nightmare is maindecked in 3 of 77 tournament decks in this archive (4%), averaging 1.3 copies; used by 1 of 21 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 45 decks that can cast black cards, 3 of them play it (7%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Recurring Nightmare
- The Rock: The engine: sacrifice a spent creature to return a better one from the graveyard, and the Nightmare bounces back to hand to do it again. Rats becomes Graveborn Muse, Elder becomes Krosan Tusker, forever.
Tournament decks with Recurring Nightmare
- The Rock: 3rd Place at Premodern MTGO Challenge (1× mainboard)
- Junk Nightmare: 1st Place at Premodern Monthly (2× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (1× mainboard)
