Nightmare Price

Updated 2026-08-04

Nightmare in 7th Edition is a classic black creature rare with decades of presence in the game, appearing in numerous core sets and carrying the iconic visual of a shadow horse whose power and toughness scale with Swamps in play. The 7th Edition core set used the white-border treatment that was standard for core sets of that era, which separates it from the original Alpha and Beta black-border printings that carry a substantially higher collector premium. The card has drifted slightly lower over the past month with no week-over-week movement, consistent with a thinly traded collector card gradually losing ask-side support. Nightmare has no current competitive format relevance, so the price is driven entirely by nostalgic demand from players who remember it as a centerpiece of early game experiences and from collectors completing core-set runs. Condition matters considerably here: white-border cards from 7th Edition can yellow at the edges, and genuinely clean copies are less common than raw population figures suggest.