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- Legendary Creature — Vulcan AdvisorGUW
Recurring Nightmare puts Sarek, Federation Ambassador onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Legendary Creature — Spirit DetectiveRW
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- Legendary Creature — Phyrexian PraetorW
Recurring Nightmare puts Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Legendary Creature — GodGU
Recurring Nightmare puts Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Creature — TurtleU
Recurring Nightmare puts Ambling Stormshell onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Creature — WolfG
Recurring Nightmare puts Hollowhenge Overlord onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Legendary Creature — Elder GiantRW
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- Creature — Dinosaur DragonR
Recurring Nightmare puts Bonehoard Dracosaur onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- 3GGUULegendary Creature — SerpentGU
Recurring Nightmare puts Koma, Cosmos Serpent onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Creature — Klingon AdvisorB
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- Legendary Creature — Phyrexian PraetorB
Recurring Nightmare puts Sheoldred, Whispering One onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Creature — EldraziBU
Recurring Nightmare puts Sire of Stagnation onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- 4GGGCreature — Plant KrakenG
Recurring Nightmare puts Verdant Kraken onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- 3GGUULegendary Creature — SerpentGU
Recurring Nightmare puts Koma, World-Eater onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- 3GGWWCreature — WurmGW
Recurring Nightmare puts Novablast Wurm onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- 3WWCreature — Elemental IncarnationW
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- Legendary Creature — Elder GiantGU
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- Legendary Creature — SphinxUW
Recurring Nightmare puts Medomai the Ageless onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Legendary Creature — Human Scientist HeroU
Recurring Nightmare puts Reed Richards, Smartest Man onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Legendary Creature — Human MonkRUW
Recurring Nightmare puts Narset, Enlightened Master onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Legendary Creature — HumanBUW
Merieke Ri Berit temporarily takes control of an opponent's creature, and Recurring Nightmare sacrifices it — the opponent loses the permanent for good.
- Legendary Creature — ElementalGR
Recurring Nightmare puts Omnath, Locus of Rage onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Creature — DinosaurBG
Recurring Nightmare puts Grim Giganotosaurus onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Artifact Creature — Phyrexian DreadnoughtC
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- 4RGGWCreature — BeastGRW
Recurring Nightmare puts Godsire onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist1BBLegendary Creature — Human WizardB
Hell's Caretaker3BCreature — HorrorB
Cauldron of Essence1BGArtifactBG
Bonecaller Cleric1BCreature — Human ClericB
Quest for the NecropolisBEnchantmentB
Geth, Thane of Contracts1BBLegendary Creature — Phyrexian ZombieB
Necromancy2BEnchantmentB
Strands of Night2BBEnchantmentB
Doomed Necromancer2BCreature — Human Cleric MercenaryB
Whisper, Blood Liturgist3BLegendary Creature — Human ClericB
Valgavoth's FaithfulBCreature — Human ClericB
Priest of Fell RitesWBCreature — Human WarlockBW