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Hopeless Nightmare

First printed in Wilds of Eldraine (2023)

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Hopeless Nightmare

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2.
2 genericBlack: Sacrifice this enchantment.

Illustrated by
Dominik Mayer

Legality

Ruling (1)

  • Hopeless Nightmare's first ability causes each opponent to lose 2 life even if some or all of those players were unable to discard a card.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Hopeless Nightmare in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Wilds of Eldraine (WOE), Premier Draft 58.3% +3.1 +3.5 93360
Wilds of Eldraine (WOE), Sealed 60.9% +4.3 +4.2 4808
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Pioneer In 9 of 649 decks (1.4%), most in UB (unclassified)

Staple: main deck, 3% of decks (#175)

Share of decks
1.4%
▼ 1.5 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-10: 0.8% 2026-08-17: 1.2% 2026-08-24: 1.1% 2026-08-31: 1.2% 2026-09-07: 2.6% 2026-09-14: 3.6% 2026-09-21: 3.2% 2026-09-28: 3.6% 2026-10-05: 3.0% 2026-10-12: 1.9% 2026-10-19: 1.2% 2026-10-26: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
9
9 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
4.0
in the main deck
Win rate
60%
2 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
UB (unclassified) 6.0% 23%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Momentum Breaker100%72.1
Underground River100%72.1
Cryogen Relic100%59.0
Shipwreck Marsh100%40.6
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway100%38.2
Narset, Parter of Veils100%32.5
Nowhere to Run100%27.0
Petrified Hamlet100%21.6
This Town Ain't Big Enough100%18.0
Darkslick Shores100%16.2

Best win rate

DeckRecord
UB
May_Chang in Pioneer Challenge 16
4-2
67%
UB
Beicodegeia in Pioneer Challenge 32
4-2
67%
UB
May_Chang in Pioneer Challenge 16
3-2
60%
UB
Beicodegeia in Pioneer Challenge 32
4-3
57%
UB
Beicodegeia in Pioneer Challenge 32
3-3
50%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
UB
May_Chang,
4 main #5 (top 8)
of 30
4-2
UB
May_Chang,
4 main #13
of 27
3-2
UB
Xul_Daem0n,
4 main 5-0
UB
Beicodegeia,
4 main #15
of 40
3-3
UB
_rednax_,
4 main #32
of 40
1-3
UB
HoldTheElle,
4 main #26
of 26
0-3
UB
HoldTheElle,
4 main #24
of 25
0-2
UB
Beicodegeia,
4 main #7 (top 8)
of 44
4-3

Pauper In 2 of 1835 decks (0.1%), most in UB (unclassified)

Share of decks
0.1%
▲ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-10: 0.0% 2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.2% 2026-08-31: 0.0% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.0% 2026-09-21: 0.2% 2026-09-28: 0.0% 2026-10-05: 0.0% 2026-10-12: 0.0% 2026-10-19: 0.6% 2026-10-26: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
2
2 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
4.0
in the main deck
Win rate
40%
0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
UB (unclassified) 9.8% 1%
WB (unclassified) 0.2% 25%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

DeckRecord
UB
Hansuccio in Pauper Challenge 32
2-3
40%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
UB
Hansuccio,
4 main #23
of 55
2-3
WB
Kiwighost,
4 main #30
of 33
0-2

Commander In 5 of 5780 decks (0.1%), most in Kefka, Court Mage

Share of decks
0.1%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.1% 2026-08-31: 0.0% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.0% 2026-09-21: 0.2% 2026-09-28: 0.1% 2026-10-05: 0.2% 2026-10-12: 0.0% 2026-10-19: 0.1% 2026-10-26: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
5
5 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
1 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Kefka, Court Mage 1.0% 2%
Tinybones, Trinket Thief 0.1% 100%
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 0.0% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Tinybones, Trinket Thief100%1294.8
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar100%719.3
Waste Not100%281.5
Toxic Deluge100%20.8
Reanimate100%8.9
Culling the Weak100%3.5
Dark Ritual100%2.4
Demonic Tutor100%2.1
Sol Ring100%1.0
Liliana of the Veil80%1294.8

Best win rate

No challenge results yet.

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Tinybones, Trinket Thief
greg stein,
1 main #29
of 33
0-4
Kefka, Court Mage
José Luis Castillo Martínez,
1 main #6 (top 8)
of 20
1-3
Tinybones, Trinket Thief
greg stein,
1 main #45
of 66
0-4
Tinybones, Trinket Thief
Ronny Martinez,
1 main #33
of 41
0-3
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
Martin Fojtík,
1 main #27
of 31
0-4