Chance Encounter
Enchantment
Whenever you win a coin flip, put a luck counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has ten or more luck counters on it, you win the game.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $1.36
- EDHREC rank
- #6848
Chance Encounter wins the game on the spot if you untap with ten luck counters — the whole point is stacking those counters fast, which is exactly what Frenetic Efreet does by letting you flip coins repeatedly at instant speed for zero mana. The natural home is Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom, where every coin flip does triple work: counters on Chance Encounter, cards from Zndrsplt, and a doubling power bonus on Okaun.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
Yusri, Fortune's Flame
Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Chance Encounter is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only matters in one of them. In Commander, it's a viable alternate win condition in the right deck — ten counters is achievable when your commander generates flips every turn, and the enchantment's slow clock becomes irrelevant if your opponents can't interact with it. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, Chance Encounter competes with combo decks that win on turns one through three; a four-mana enchantment that needs multiple additional turns is simply too slow, and no competitive coin-flip shell exists in any of those formats to support it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Frenetic EfreetChance Encounter
Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$1.36 cheap tier
At $1.36, Chance Encounter sits in the range where a casual player picking up a coin-flip Commander deck grabs it without thinking twice. Demand is niche but stable — it shows up in nearly 90% of Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom lists — so the price is unlikely to crater, but equally unlikely to move meaningfully without a reprint that broadens the player base.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Frenetic Efreet
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
- Yusri, Fortune's Flame
- Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.