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Recurring Nightmare

First printed in Exodus (1998)

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Recurring Nightmare

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

In the last 30 days 2.4% of Premodern decks played it (14 of 590). Most played in Mono-Black (unclassified).

Combos

5 combos from Commander Spellbook, the most popular first.

Legality

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta
share of the archetype in the format
Play it
decks of the archetype that play this card
Together
decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift
how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Premodern Other periods →

In 14 of 590 decks (2.4%).

Share of decks
2.4%
▲ 0.4 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-06: 1.7% 2026-08-13: 1.4% 2026-08-20: 2.7% 2026-08-27: 0.9% 2026-09-03: 0.0% 2026-09-10: 2.5% 2026-09-17: 2.9% 2026-09-24: 2.1% 2026-10-01: 2.5% 2026-10-08: 3.6% 2026-10-15: 0.8% 2026-10-22: 2.3%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
14
14 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.4
in the main deck
Win rate
51%
2 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Mono-Black (unclassified) 1.9% 18%
Golgari Midrange 1.7% 80%
BG (unclassified) 1.2% 29%
BRG (unclassified) 1.0% 17%
UBRG (unclassified) 0.2% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Cabal Therapy100%4.7
Duress93%4.2
Llanowar Wastes86%8.2
Graveborn Muse86%7.5
Smother86%4.9
Wall of Blossoms79%19.3
Pernicious Deed71%22.2
Dust Bowl71%10.0
Treetop Village71%3.9
Ravenous Baloth64%25.3

Best win rate

DeckRecord
BG
pokerswizard in Premodern Challenge 16
6-2
75%
BG
Bradykiesling13 in Premodern Challenge 16
3-2
60%
Golgari Midrange
Suchiha in Premodern Challenge 16
3-3
50%
Golgari Midrange
Claudio Godoy Ortiz in Expert level III
2-3
40%
Mono-Black
Xissas in Premodern Challenge 16
2-3
40%
Golgari Midrange
Suchiha in Premodern Challenge 16
2-3
40%

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

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
BG
Bradykiesling13,
1 main #10
3-2
Golgari Midrange
Strudl420,
1 main 5-0
BG
pokerswizard,
1 main #1
6-2
Golgari Midrange
Claudio Godoy Ortiz,
1 main #12
2-3
Mono-Black
Nocksinex,
1 main 5-0
Golgari Midrange
CHAMmini,
1 main 5-0
Golgari Midrange
MChoq,
1 main 5-0
Golgari Midrange
Suchiha,
1 main #8
3-3

No recent decks in: Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander.