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Nocturnal Hunger BLB 0102 · common

Nocturnal Hunger · {2}{B} · Instant · Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Destroy target creature. If the gift wasn't promised, you lose 2 life.

Nocturnal Hunger · {2}{B} · Instant · Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Destroy target creature. If the gift wasn't promised, you lose 2 life.

Price
from $0.091 printing
Win rate
57.0% GIH 119,920 instances · Premier Draft
Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 68,374 wins in 119,920 card-in-hand instances.

105,714 distinct games · 34,565 distinct drafts · games recorded Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024.

17Lands file dated Sep 6, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

57.0%when drawn (GIH)

+2.4 pp vs 54.6% average · 119,920 instances

Premier Draft · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · average from 931,230 games

#85 of 258 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.5 on average (189,205 packs).

17 of 41 black cards · 3 of 13 black common cards.

Taken at pick4.353,061 picks
Makes the deck85.6%53,061 picks with known usage
When played55.3%244,479.8 matchesBenched 54.2%
26,432.2 matches
When drawn57.0%119,920 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 54.6% · 49,143 instances
● Drawn later 58.7% · 70,777 instances

In hand 57.0% · 119,920 instances
Unseen in deck 54.0% · 166,780 instances
+3.0 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn57.0%119,920 instances17 of 41
Opening hand54.6%49,143 instances24 of 40
Drawn later58.7%70,777 instances15 of 41
In the deck55.3%288,831 instances19 of 41
Without seeing it54.0%166,780 instances15 of 41
Improvement when drawn+3.0 pp119,920 instances / 166,780 instances19 of 41
When benched54.2%26,432.2 matches34 of 42
Makes the deck85.6%53,061 picks with known usage4 of 42
Pick (last seen)3.5189,205 packs17 of 42
Taken at4.353,061 picks17 of 42

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Squirrelfolk BG58.4%22,407 instancesRatfolk UB58.1%14,265 instancesLizardfolk BR56.9%16,630 instancesBatfolk WB56.6%20,285 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.0% · 119,920 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Jolly Gerbils+6.4 pp10,352 games with both in the deck · 2,406 both drawnBark-Knuckle Boxer+5.0 pp14,280 games with both in the deck · 3,222 both drawnVren, the Relentless+4.2 pp17,757 games with both in the deck · 4,421 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 67% of 258 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

BLB 0102 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · Value Booster$0.09
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster · Value Booster$0.23

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 16 packs (6.17%) · 53.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 140 packs (0.72%) · 22.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 11 packs (8.85%) · 96.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 351 packs (0.29%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 22 packs (4.54%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Play BoosterCommon or bonus-sheet replacement98.5%Common
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil commons100% per positionTraditional foil commons

Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Sam Guay, BLB 102 · Scryfall ↗
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
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