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◇ Catalog #98

Nighthowler

DIGITAL ONLY

pio·#98·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Nils Hamm

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Dec '24

1 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #4,127 · Niche pick

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Enchantment Creature — Horror

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

0/0

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

2013-09-15wotc

On the stack, a spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both, although it's an enchantment spell in either case.

2013-09-15wotc

Nighthowler's last ability functions only from the battlefield. In other zones, Nighthowler is a 0/0 enchantment creature.

2013-09-15wotc

Unlike other Aura spells, an Aura spell with bestow isn't countered if its target is illegal as it begins to resolve. Rather, the effect making it an Aura spell ends, it loses enchant creature, it returns to being an enchantment creature spell, and it resolves and enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PIO — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #98 of *Pioneer Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2024 Pioneer Masters release.

Card type: Enchantment Creature — Horror, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{B}{B} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Bestow.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #4,127 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Nils Hamm. Rarix catalogs 782 other cards credited to this artist.