Best Mono-Black budget alternatives to Nazgûl
Nazgûl
$22.57 MarketCard Breakdown: Nazgûl (Creature — Wraith Knight) acts as a key High-Impact Creature Body in competitive and casual EDH / Modern formats. At $22.57, budget-conscious players can leverage vector embedding similarity to achieve comparable game effects for under $5.00.
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Madame Null, Power Broker
(Legendary Creature — Demon Advisor)
Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay life equal to its power. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
Functions as a Legendary Creature alternative to Nazgûl's Creature and shares the exact same mana value (3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #fun-ruling, #gives-pp-counters, #repeatable-pp-counters.
Requires manual mana or tap investment to activate, whereas Nazgûl functions passively.
Arm-Mounted Anchor
(Artifact — Equipment)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a Pirate card. Equip {2}. This ability costs {2} less to activate if you have one or fewer cards in hand.
Functions as a Artifact alternative to Nazgûl's Creature and shares the exact same mana value (3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #fun-ruling, #noncreature-typal, #triggered-ability.
Requires manual mana or tap investment to activate, whereas Nazgûl functions passively.
Thieves' Guild Enforcer
(Creature — Human Rogue)
Flash Whenever this creature or another Rogue you control enters, each opponent mills two cards. As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, this creature gets +2/+1 and has deathtouch.
Matches Nazgûl's Creature card type and costs 2 less mana to cast (1 MV vs 3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #noncreature-typal, #triggered-ability.
At $0.33 (99% less than Nazgûl), it delivers 73% of the mechanical function, but lacks the absolute power ceiling of the original staple.
Sigil of Myrkul
(Enchantment)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, mill a card. When you do, if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control and it gains deathtouch until end of turn. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Functions as a Enchantment alternative to Nazgûl's Creature and shares the exact same mana value (3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #gives-pp-counters, #repeatable-pp-counters.
At $0.22 (99% less than Nazgûl), it delivers 72% of the mechanical function, but lacks the absolute power ceiling of the original staple.
Feral Deathgorger // Dusk Sight
(Creature — Dragon // Sorcery — Omen)
Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. // Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. Draw a card. (Then shuffle this card into its owner's library.)
Matches Nazgûl's Creature card type and costs 3 more mana to cast (6 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #gives-pp-counters, #triggered-ability.
Costs 3 additional mana (6 MV vs 3 MV), making it slightly slower on curve.
Crawl from the Cellar
(Sorcery)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Zombie you control. Flashback {3}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Functions as a Sorcery alternative to Nazgûl's Creature and costs 2 less mana to cast (1 MV vs 3 MV). Overlaps on functional mechanics including #gives-pp-counters, #noncreature-typal.
At $0.13 (99% less than Nazgûl), it delivers 70% of the mechanical function, but lacks the absolute power ceiling of the original staple.
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