Chthonian Nightmare

As of Aug 8, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Chthonian Nightmare is $0.60 (MH3 #83), and the most expensive is $11.64 (MH3 #330, Borderless, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.60, up 15.4% over 7 days, up 5.3% over 30 days, up 57.9% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $4.48 (2024).

Chthonian Nightmare has 4 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including borderless, alt art and prerelease treatments.

MH3 #83

$0.60

CK $0.99 / $0.15 75%

MP $0.36 128 avail

MH3 #83 Foil

$0.69 +15%

CK $1.49 / $0.38 45%

MP $0.52 30 avail

MH3 #406 Alt Art

$1.75 +192%

CK $2.79 / $0.95 46%

MP $1.01 30 avail

PMH3 #83s Prerelease Foil

$2.36 +293%

CK $3.49 / $1.30 45%

MP $1.46 11 avail

MH3 #406 Alt Art Foil

$4.79 +698%

CK $7.99 / $3.20 33%

MH3 #330 Borderless

$5.03 +738%

CK $4.99 / $1.50 70%

MP $3.51 32 avail

MH3 #330 Borderless Foil

$11.64 +1840%

CK $16.99 / $8.50 27%

MP $9.37 11 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $8.50 cash for MH3 #330 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 50% (wide).

• Jun 7, 2024 Chthonian Nightmare's last ability must have a target to be activated. You can't activate it without a target in order to return Chthonian Nightmare to your hand.
• Jun 7, 2024 Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
• Jun 7, 2024 Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
• Jun 7, 2024 If a card in your graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 when determining its mana value.
• Jun 7, 2024 If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.

Chthonian Nightmare has been reprinted 7 times. The Modern Horizons 3 reprint cut the price 78% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
MH3 #83	2024-06-14	Rare	Standard	$4.48	$2.60	$2.70	$2.39
MH3 #330	2024-06-14	Rare	Borderless	$10.18	$7.44	$7.11	$7.11
MH3 #406	2024-06-14	Rare	Alt Art	$17.14	$15.23	$13.92	$13.52
MH3 #406	2024-06-14	Rare	Alt Art	$7.84	$5.20	$5.26	$3.89
MH3 #330	2024-06-14	Rare	Borderless	$27.15	$24.41	$23.47	$20.61
MH3 #83	2024-06-14	Rare	Standard	$10.84	$3.06	$2.42	$3.00
PMH3 #83s	2024-06-14	Rare	Prerelease	$14.72	$10.63	$4.46	$3.22

Chthonian Nightmare is the #2,269 most-played card on EDHREC, down 53 places over the last 30 days.