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Nightmare Shepherd

{2}{B}{B}

Enchantment Creature — Demon

THBTheros Beyond Death#108rare
Finishes
Nonfoil · Foil
Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 1210
Illustrator
Tyler Jacobson
Found in
Theros Beyond Death MTGO Redemption · Theros Beyond Death MTGO Redemption Foil · 3 more
Printings6Combos1EDHREC rank#4,234
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
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.
4/4
Flying
Plays as:
Token Copy
Market · per finishspark updated 10m ago · prices as of 2026-08-30
Nonfoil-13.9%
$0.31
$0.10 low-$0.10 gapTCGplayer
Foil-12.1%
$0.51
$0.10 low-$0.10 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$0.31· across 6 printings· you're viewing it

Rulings

7 · latest Jan 24, 2020
  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    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.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    If something becomes a copy of the token, the copy is also a 1/1 and a Nightmare.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    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.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    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.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    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.