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
- Commander 2019 (C19 #39)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2019-08-23
- Artist
- Steve Prescott
- EDHREC rank
- #1,641
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- 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
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Faithless Looting
- Living Death
- Victimize
- Animate Dead
- Feldon of the Third Path
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Shriekmaw
- Reanimate
- Twilight Diviner
- Big Game Hunter
- Ingot Chewer
- Plaguecrafter
- Entomb
- Flayer of the Hatebound
- Archon of Cruelty
- Monument to Endurance
- Disciple of Bolas
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Vile Entomber
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Persist
- Anger
- Ravenous Chupacabra
- Accursed Marauder
- Bone Miser
- Cathartic Reunion
- Lord of the Forsaken
- Combustible Gearhulk
- Thrill of Possibility
- Sneak Attack
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Shadowgrange Archfiend
- Stitch Together
- Sheoldred, Whispering One
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Dread Return
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Massacre Wurm
- Ripples of Undeath
- Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- Grave Researcher
- Sepulchral Primordial
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
- Blood Crypt
- Gravebreaker Lamia
- Chaos Warp
- Blasphemous Act
- Squee, Goblin Nabob
- Sulfurous Springs
- Animate Dead
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Living Death
- Apprentice Necromancer
- 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
- Haunted Ridge
- Entomb
- Shriekmaw
- Fellwar Stone
- Big Game Hunter
- Dark Ritual
- Plaguecrafter
- Graven Cairns
- Rakdos Charm
- Twilight Diviner
- Ingot Chewer
- Bloodstained Mire
- Mind Stone
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.