Price$50.81 – $71.41
Buy on TCGplayerNykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
LegalRank #170
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, : Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Why is this card good?
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is a ritual-on-a-land that rewards heavily single-colored, pip-dense boards. When you tap it for and choose a color, you're spending 3 mana total to get back your devotion — so it only nets mana once you have 4+ pips of that color in play. At that point it can explode into enormous, repeatable mana that fuels game-ending X spells, big bombs, or just more permanents.
It shines in mono-color decks with low-CMC, high-pip permanents — mono-green ramp/stompy, mono-black devotion, mono-red, mono-white go-wide. Commanders like Yuriko aside, think Krenko, Karametra-style mono-G, or any deck built around a saturated board. Devotion-themed and big-mana strategies love it most.
Don't play it in two-or-more color decks where pips are split between colors — your devotion to any single color stays too low to break even. It's also weak in early turns or low-permanent control shells. If your board isn't reliably four-plus pips of one color, it's just a tapland that costs you mana.
and choose a color, you're spending 3 mana total to get back your devotion — so it only nets mana once you have 4+ pips of that color in play. At that point it can explode into enormous, repeatable mana that fuels game-ending X spells, big bombs, or just more permanents.
It shines in mono-color decks with low-CMC, high-pip permanents — mono-green ramp/stompy, mono-black devotion, mono-red, mono-white go-wide. Commanders like Yuriko aside, think Krenko, Karametra-style mono-G, or any deck built around a saturated board. Devotion-themed and big-mana strategies love it most.
Don't play it in two-or-more color decks where pips are split between colors — your devotion to any single color stays too low to break even. It's also weak in early turns or low-permanent control shells. If your board isn't reliably four-plus pips of one color, it's just a tapland that costs you mana.Related cards
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Printings (3)
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Combos (8)
- Argothian Elder + Wirewood Lodge + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite untap of nontoken creatures you control, Infinite mana nontoken creatures you control can produce
- Rings of Brighthearth + Deserted Temple + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite untap of lands you control
- Magus of the Candelabra + Maze of Ith + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite untap of lands you control
- Silvanus's Invoker + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite untap of lands you control
- Kitsa, Otterball Elite + Frantic Search + Minamo, School at Water's Edge + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
→ Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers, Infinite looting