Recurring Nightmare

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature, Return Recurring Nightmare to its owner's hand: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Legality

Format	Legality
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

SaberTech on Pattern Recognition #366 - Sacrifice …

1 week ago

Sacrificing creatures as a deck strategy is now typically established in Aristocrat style decks, but what are some of the other prominent decks in MtG's history that highlighted the power of sacrificing creatures?

Some that come to mind for me are:

• Recurring Nightmare decks.
• Arcbound Ravager affinity decks.
• Decks that ran Skullclamp, like some goblin variants.

Are there any others that come to mind?

And from the old-school kitchen table, I'm going to give a quick nod to Breeding Pit for its noble work in helping to repeatedly sate Lord of the Pit's snack attacks back in the day.

jethstriker on How Good is Marshal's Anthem?

6 months ago

Depending on the format, Recurring Nightmare and its creature counterpart, Hell's Caretaker are both repeatable reanimation engines.

SufferFromEDHD on Enchanté

11 months ago

So Reanimate is better in the early game and allows you to utilize your opponents graveyard but it is bad deck building to rely on your opponents. The top of graveyard really bothers you, huh? I guess that's why WOTC did away with that wording. You are running an aristocrats strategy. YOU are in control of what ends up in the bin and when. Recurring Nightmare is banned for a reason. Corpse Dance is the next best thing.

Well you seem to like Legacy are you familiar with Shallow Grave? That's another Dark Ritual + Entomb sequence.

Ritual of the Machine less gimmicky

SpammyV on Modern Horizons 3

11 months ago

It's funny to me that they gave us energy-themed takes on Recurring Nightmare and Aluren but then they seemed like they were worried that players wouldn't be able to figure out combos to break those cards so we have Guide of Souls (Gain 1 life and 1 E when a creature ETBs) and Metastatic Evangel (proliferate when a creature ETBs) just to make sure you can do some nonsense... With Aluren and Nightmare.

ViscountVonSausageRoll on Temporary Graveyard

1 year ago

I can tell when you played xD

And hey, don't sell yourself short, casual 60 card is the epitome of magic.

Budget Suggestions (≤ $10): Griselbrand because he's awesome, Dark Ritual because speed, Go for the Throat or alternatively: I see you're running Bone Shredder. Perhaps considering replacing with Shriekmaw? He's less hardcastable, but he does throw himself into your graveyard in a hurry. Consider Buried Alive to fill the GY? Vampire Nighthawk has been replaced with Nighthawk Scavenger I know, the powercreeper has been powercrept.

Non-Budget Suggestions ($10+): Archon of Cruelty. I mean, read what it does. Right? That's ridiculous.
Recurring Nightmare It's pricey, but it's absolutely busted. (It sacs a dude and bounces to your hand as an additional cost) It never goes away.
Atraxa, Grand Unifier Honestly not my cup of tea, but she's very powerful. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Only because: It's just good in this deck. You're already running Liliana of the Dark Realms x2 and Coffers. Maybe find some heavily played ones?

Make Room: The most unfun part of coming back to any old deck. Well, Liliana Vess is just too expensive now days (even back then she was kinda pricey), but most of the time she ends up being a 5 CMC vampiric tutor at sorcery speed anyways. She never lives long.

Sorin Markov kind of falls under the same boat, at least in this deck imo. Usually by the time you can cast him, opponents aren't at 20 life anymore, so the appeal of "10 dmg" can be somewhat deceptive.

Anyways, welcome back, and I hope you enjoy yourself

Angry_Alan on Drivnod's Desecration

1 year ago

Profet93 Sadly I found out Recurring Nightmare is not edh legal.

Angry_Alan on Drivnod's Desecration

1 year ago

Profet93 Thank you so much, happened to stumble upon another card that would be inpactful with carrier thrall or pawn of Ullamog. It's Recurring Nightmare. Using it to sacrifice Carrier or pawn making 2 tokens typically just to bring it back with the Carnival of souls for the black mana to recast recucurring nightmare. Just a silly way to rotate another creature in and out of graveyards.

Feeling like if I include Carnival that it has to basically be my wincon somehow with the combos it offers or I'll probably lose a bunch of life from someone realizing what it does or another token player.

Again thank you. Very nice that you commented and were willing to bounce ideas off my deck and making a bunch of suggestions.

khunkao on Twenty Years of Playing Magic!

2 years ago

Wow, this sparks some fond memories for me!

I first started playing almost 25 years ago. I started during about a month before Exodus dropped. The "Rath Cycle" is my sentimental favorite! Phyrexians for everyone! When Urza's Saga dropped, I bought 2 booster boxes and pulled 2x Gaea's Cradle, which I still have in my binder!

I took a long break from the game in the early 2000's because my playgroup totally fell apart as everyone got jobs, got married, and moved away. However, some of us have found our way back together and have met some new players, so we're able to squeeze in real-life paper matches once or twice a month.

One thing that's been fun for me is to go back and review my older cards! I often find some serious gems I had overlooked previously because I didn't understand the game well enough to realize how powerful they were. One of my favorite hidden gem cards is Recurring Nightmare. At the time, I simply didn't appreciate what it was, but over the last 5 years or so, I've become the graveyard's biggest fan! I've also found other hidden gems in my collection such as Yawgmoth's Will, Lake of the Dead, Survival of the Fittest, City of Traitors, etc...

I can't begin to tell you how excited I've been for the game since last Fall. Dominaria United, The Brothers' War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, and the coming March of the Machine! Dominaria is still my favorite plane and the Brothers' War and the Phyrexians are my jam!

I'm crossing my fingers & toes that we'll witness the return of Yawgmoth! It's the arch-enemy we all deserve!