Cards List
R 0259 – JMP
As this creature enters, choose an opponent.
This creature gets −1/-1 for each card in the chosen player's hand.
Creature
- Nyxathid tracks the hand size of the chosen player even if that player ceases to be an opponent of its controller. (This could happen if that player gains control of Nyxathid, for example.)
- In a multiplayer game, if the chosen player leaves the game, Nyxathid's second ability simply won't do anything anymore.
- Nyxathid's two abilities are linked: The second one refers only to the player chosen by the first one. If another creature becomes a copy of Nyxathid (due to Mirrorweave, for example), the second ability won't do anything because a player was never chosen as a result of the first ability. This is true even if a different ability allowed a player to be chosen as that creature entered.