Card
Chainer, Dementia Master
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Minion 3/3
All Nightmares get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 140 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · TOR · #56
- Cheapest printing
- €0.13
- EDHREC salt
- 0.45
- Color identity
- Black
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
140 known combos.
- Chainer, Dementia Master + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Gray Merchant of Asphodel + Dimir House Guard
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Chainer, Dementia Master + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Gray Merchant of Asphodel + Viscera Seer
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Buried Alive + Reanimate + Chainer, Dementia Master + Viscera Seer + Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
The creature put onto the battlefield by Chainer's activated ability is black only, not black in addition to its other colors. It is, however, a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. As it enters the battlefield, it is already a black Nightmare (and perhaps some other creature types); it doesn't enter and then become a black Nightmare.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast