First printed in Commander 2020 (2020)
Legendary Creature — Nightmare Beast
Each other creature you control enters with an additional vigilance counter on it.
, Remove three counters from among creatures you control: Mill three cards, then return a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
3/3
- Illustrated by
- Sam Burley
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (3)
- You can remove any three counters to activate Tayam’s last ability, not just vigilance counters.
- If a card in your graveyard has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. - Because the activated ability doesn’t target the permanent card in your graveyard, you may choose one of the three cards you put there from your library.
Prices
MTGO price: 2.15 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
144 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite self-mill, Put a selection of permanant cards from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield: Devoted Druid + Tayam, Luminous Enigma
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Strangleroot Geist + Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Young Wolf
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens…: Ashnod's Altar + Promise of Bunrei + Tayam, Luminous Enigma
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Ashnod's Altar + Orcish Bowmasters + Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Wall of Roots
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Weaponcraft Enthusiast
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Ashnod's Altar + Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Wall of Roots + Winding Constrictor
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens…: Ashnod's Altar + Hallowed Spiritkeeper + Tayam, Luminous Enigma
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens…: Phyrexian Altar + Promise of Bunrei + Tayam, Luminous Enigma
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Phyrexian Altar + Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Weaponcraft Enthusiast
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens…: Ashnod's Altar + Caller of the Claw + Tayam, Luminous Enigma