Card
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Mana cost {2}{R}{R}
Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra
+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent. +1: Add {R}{R}. −3: Chandra deals 4 damage to target creature. −7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 18 known combos. 7 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · KLD · #110
- Cheapest printing
- €1.63
- EDHREC salt
- 0.30
- Color identity
- Red
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
18 known combos.
- The Chain Veil + Chandra, Hope's Beacon + Chandra, Torch of Defiance + Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
Produces: Infinite untap of permanents you control, Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite colored mana
View on Commander Spellbook - The Chain Veil + Chandra, Hope's Beacon + Chandra, Torch of Defiance + Ral Zarek
Produces: Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite damage
View on Commander Spellbook - The Chain Veil + Chandra, Hope's Beacon + Chandra, Torch of Defiance + Tezzeret the Seeker
Produces: Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite damage, Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast the exiled card, you do so as part of the resolution of Chandra's ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored, but other restrictions (such as "Cast [this card] only during combat") are not. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands. If the card exiled with Chandra's first ability is a land card, you can't play it and Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
You pay the costs for the exiled card if you cast it. You may pay alternative costs such as emerge rather than the card's mana cost. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
Loyalty abilities can't be mana abilities. Chandra's second ability uses the stack and can be countered or otherwise responded to. Like all loyalty abilities, it can be activated only once per turn, during your main phase, when the stack is empty, and only if no other loyalty abilities of the planeswalker have been activated this turn. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
Chandra's emblem's ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Chandra's first ability causes 4 damage total to be dealt to the opposing team. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
The emblem created by Chandra's last ability is colorless. The damage it deals is from a colorless source.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast