Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Legendary Creature — Human Minion
Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.
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- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21 #683)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2021-08-26
- Artist
- Steve Prescott
- EDHREC rank
- #1,609
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 7
All 7 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Doomed Necromancer
- Buried Alive
- Gravebreaker Lamia
- Magus of the Wheel
- Squee, Goblin Nabob
- Apprentice Necromancer
- Faithless Looting
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Living Death
- Victimize
- Animate Dead
- Feldon of the Third Path
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Shriekmaw
- Big Game Hunter
- Twilight Diviner
- Reanimate
- Ingot Chewer
- Plaguecrafter
- Flayer of the Hatebound
- Entomb
- Archon of Cruelty
- Monument to Endurance
- Disciple of Bolas
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Vile Entomber
- Persist
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Ravenous Chupacabra
- Accursed Marauder
- Anger
- Bone Miser
- Lord of the Forsaken
- Cathartic Reunion
- Combustible Gearhulk
- Thrill of Possibility
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Sneak Attack
- Sheoldred, Whispering One
- Stitch Together
- Shadowgrange Archfiend
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Dread Return
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Massacre Wurm
- Ripples of Undeath
- Grave Researcher
- Sepulchral Primordial
- Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Faithless Looting
- Dragonskull Summit
- Smoldering Marsh
- Rakdos Signet
- Doomed Necromancer
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Buried Alive
- Reanimate
- Magus of the Wheel
- Victimize
- Gravebreaker Lamia
- Blood Crypt
- Chaos Warp
- Squee, Goblin Nabob
- Blasphemous Act
- Sulfurous Springs
- Animate Dead
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Apprentice Necromancer
- Living Death
- Tainted Peak
- Foreboding Ruins
- Feed the Swarm
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Feldon of the Third Path
- Thrill of Possibility
- Luxury Suite
- Rakdos Carnarium
- Anger
- Bojuka Bog
- Shriekmaw
- Haunted Ridge
- Entomb
- Fellwar Stone
- Big Game Hunter
- Plaguecrafter
- Dark Ritual
- Graven Cairns
- Rakdos Charm
- Ingot Chewer
- Twilight Diviner
- Mind Stone
- Bloodstained Mire
Format legality
Rulings
- 2019-08-23
Chainer's first ability doesn't change when you can cast the creature card. You can normally only cast it during your turn while the stack is empty, but if the creature card has flash, you can cast it at other times.
- 2019-08-23
Chainer's last ability triggers if Chainer enters the battlefield without being cast from your hand.
- 2019-08-23
Chainer's last ability triggers if the entering creature was cast from a zone other than your hand, or if it wasn't cast at all and is entering the battlefield from anywhere (including from your hand).
- 2019-08-23
If you somehow activate Chainer's first ability more than once during a turn (perhaps because Chainer left the battlefield and returned), you can cast a creature card for each ability's permission. Similarly, if another effect allows you to cast a creature card from your graveyard, you may use that permission and later use Chainer's permission to cast another creature card.
- 2019-08-23
You don't choose a creature card to cast while activating or resolving Chainer's first ability. The ability creates a permission for you to cast a creature card from your graveyard later in the turn.