Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth
Legendary Creature — Mole Beast
When Nyla enters, exile up to one target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, you lose X life and create X Clue tokens, where X is that card's mana value. (A Clue token is an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no Clues, return target card exiled with Nyla to its owner's hand.
4 / 5
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (TLE #190)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 5
- Released
- 2025-11-21
- Artist
- Douzen
- EDHREC rank
- #20,243
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Persuasive Interrogators
- Inspiring Statuary
- Troll of Khazad-dûm
- Obsessive Pursuit
- Lich-Knights' Conquest
- Malboro
- Canyon Crawler
- Radiant Lotus
- Nadier's Nightblade
- Mirkwood Bats
- Gloomfang Mauler
- Shefet Archfiend
- Pitiless Carnage
- Academy Manufactor
- Umbral Collar Zealot
- Havengul Laboratory
- Shardless Outlander
- Tamiyo's Journal
- Chitin Gravestalker
- Pactdoll Terror
- Street Wraith
- Rampaging Spiketail
- Demonic Junker
- Scion of Darkness
- Disciple of the Vault
- Marionette Apprentice
- Phantom Train
- Void Beckoner
- Battle at the Bridge
- Marionette Master
- Spectral Snatcher
- Injector Crocodile
- Susurian Voidborn
- Herald of Anguish
- Armix, Filigree Thrasher
- Secluded Starforge
- Twisted Abomination
- Cranial Plating
- God-Eternal Bontu
- Krark-Clan Ironworks
- Monumental Corruption
- Agent of the Iron Throne
- Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
- Annihilating Glare
- Sojourner's Companion
- Deadly Precision
- Tarrian's Journal
- Malevolent Witchkite
- Deadly Dispute
- Voyager Staff
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Persuasive Interrogators
- Troll of Khazad-dûm
- Inspiring Statuary
- Obsessive Pursuit
- Lich-Knights' Conquest
- Mirkwood Bats
- Umbral Collar Zealot
- Malboro
- Nadier's Nightblade
- Canyon Crawler
- Sol Ring
- Radiant Lotus
- Academy Manufactor
- Gloomfang Mauler
- Shefet Archfiend
- Pitiless Carnage
- Arcane Signet
- Havengul Laboratory
- Shardless Outlander
- Marionette Apprentice
- Tamiyo's Journal
- Chitin Gravestalker
- Pactdoll Terror
- Street Wraith
- Rampaging Spiketail
- Demonic Junker
- Disciple of the Vault
- Deadly Dispute
- Scion of Darkness
- Marionette Master
- Phantom Train
- Void Beckoner
- Battle at the Bridge
- Susurian Voidborn
- Spectral Snatcher
- Injector Crocodile
- Cranial Plating
- Herald of Anguish
- Armix, Filigree Thrasher
- Mind Stone
- Secluded Starforge
- Twisted Abomination
- Feed the Swarm
- God-Eternal Bontu
- Krark-Clan Ironworks
- Exsanguinate
- Monumental Corruption
- Bojuka Bog
- Wayfarer's Bauble
Format legality
Rulings
- 2025-10-02
Clue tokens are artifact tokens with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card." - 2025-10-02
Creating a Clue token this way isn't the same thing as investigating. Notably, an ability that triggers whenever you investigate won't trigger because of creating a Clue token this way.
- 2025-10-02
If Nyla leaves the battlefield before you return the card to your hand with the last ability, the card remains exiled without a way to return it to its owner's hand. If Nyla returns to the battlefield as a new object (such as if you airbend it and cast it again), it doesn't maintain connection to cards exiled by Nyla previously, and they cannot be targeted to return by the current Nyla.
- 2025-10-02
Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth's second ability has an "intervening 'if' clause." That means the ability won't trigger at all unless you control no Clues at the beginning of your end step, and the ability will do nothing if you control a Clue by the time it resolves.