Card text
When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters).
Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
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Mana cost
{1}{B}
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Card text
When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters).
Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Chthonian Nightmare
This page covers the retro frame printing of Chthonian Nightmare (406), an Black Enchantment from Modern Horizons 3 (MH3). It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander and 4 more formats.
We track no other printing of 406 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Modern Horizons 3 is a reprint set, which collects earlier cards, released June 2024. Chthonian Nightmare has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Card details
- Card number
- 406
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
- Set type
- Masters & special set
- Released
- 14 June 2024
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Retro Frame
- Type line
- Enchantment
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Chthonian Nightmare
Other printings of Chthonian Nightmare in Modern Horizons 3
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Chthonian Nightmare in other sets
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