ok.. ive got a few ideas about this.... one kukusho, the evening star, one in play one in your grave... on your second main phase after you hit them for 5 with kuk, sac him, bring out another kuk, and make them lose 5 life... and another great combo.... priest of gix (when he comes into play, add 3 black mana to your pool) have one in play, one in the grave, and start flipping them, you do have to give a responce to your opponent,.. if you get a great amount added to that, (the nightmare costs 3 and priest gives you 3... so keep on recasting it as much as you want...) when your ready, just use the last 3 black from the priest, and drop a bitter ordeal! with GRAVESTORM! remove there ENTIRE DECK FROM THE GAME.. (and then prepare yourself for the beating of a life time!) and that combo (both of them) works INCREDIBLE IN A MULTIPLAYER GAME TOO! i give it 4 stars, because the wording is so messed up and the oricle text does help some, but it still needs some clean up... and if you stifle this, the card goes back to there hand, and they lose the creature they sac to it, and they dont get another creature! very very annoying... but fun and survival of the fittest is awesome with it.. and if you can. or have enough mana, use kezzeret leviathan with this... or the new blue creature from new pryexia that makes you draw 7 cards and your opponents hand is reduced by 7 (sorry, forgot the name of that card)!

  -- By mike from pittsburgh pa on May 12, 2011

This really is a Recurring Nightmare. This card is solid. It's totally broken in any form of token generation deck. This is truely one of the best cards that I've ever seen. It's almost like a black tinker that you can play multiple times.

  -- By Anonymous from Sacramento, USA on April 16, 2010

Sacrifice that weenie Willow the Wisp or a chump birds of paradise with a pattern of rebirth and let Spirit Of The Night and some other monsterous creature(w/help of survival of the fittest) from your graveyard run the game board, slap some rancor on them to give him +2+0, if you really want things wild-----beserk your 6/5 creature for a swift killing!

  -- By Ryan Vargo from on December 05, 2001

This card has always been good, but recently it has gotten better with the increase in token-generating cards. The four Mutation cards in Invasion and Apocalypse can generate a large mass of tokens, which are convenient to sacrifice for this card. You can also use it to constantly exchange cards that have effects upon coming into play.

  -- By Nate from on November 27, 2001

Have four of these in my deck and I love using my own discard spells to make me discard my big creatures and then put a squil token into play and sacraficing that so the big creature can get out. I also agree with the other reviews.

  -- By from Chicago IL USa on November 27, 2001

I agree with all of you that wrote reviews for this card and this is HE BEST CARD!

  -- By Chris Adkins from Niles,OH USA on November 25, 2001

This is a card that can fit into many deck types. it helps out fat black decks, nightmare survival(duh!) and decks that have early, middle, and late game creature threats, switching small creatures for huge ones that are killed!

  -- By Ross Nish from Virginia, VB on November 05, 2001

This is without a doubt the BEST recursion card ever made, and combining it with Survival of the Fittest in a Rec-Sur deck is only one of the great ways it can be used. If you discard a big creature quick (Survival is the easiest way to do so) and sac a small creature, Recurring Nightmare can bring that Verdant Force, Sliver Queen, Dragon legend, or whatever in to play very early, where it might just win the game all by itself. Protect it with countermagic and you need not fear Disenchant. Recurring Nightmare is also reusable, making it a truly incredible card!

  -- By Tim Destan from Gilbertsville, PA USA on June 26, 2001

With this card the name says it all, your opponent will get no rest once it hits the table. This card is one of the best graveyard recurrsion engines to date. Recurring Nightmare is one tough customer by itself; put it with it's good buddy Survival of the Fittest and a gang of creatures with comes into play effects and terrorize your opponents! On top of all that, it has some nifty artwork. The only reason it gets four instead of five stars, is that it can only be used in very specific decks.

  -- By Steve Luckman from Faribault, Minnesota. on June 04, 2001