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Chandra, Acolyte of Flame

Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

0: Put a loyalty counter on each red planeswalker you control.
0: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.
−2: You may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Core Set 2020 Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#5693
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Chandra, Acolyte of Flame card art
Chandra, Acolyte of Flame enters the battlefield and immediately starts doing work: two 1/1 Elemental tokens every turn and a free replay of any instant or sorcery with mana value three or less from your graveyard, all for three mana with zero loyalty to attack. The catch is that zero loyalty — she dies to a stiff breeze — but any Planeswalker deck running Chandra, Torch of Defiance or Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh already wants this kind of cheap, redundant pressure, and the spell-recursion ability alone justifies the slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh

90.1% of decks · synergy 0.88

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh is the premier home for Chandra, Acolyte of Flame because the deck is already built around stacking Chandra planeswalkers and triggering loyalty synergies — Acolyte of Flame generates tokens that trigger prowess-style effects and her spell-recursion lines up perfectly with the cheap burn spells that flip Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh in the first place.

02
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Purphoros, God of the Forge

29.4% of decks · synergy 0.27

Purphoros, God of the Forge turns every one of Chandra, Acolyte of Flame's two Elemental tokens into two damage to each opponent the moment they enter, which means three mana and one turn cycle converts into four free damage just from Purphoros triggers before any combat math.

03
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Commodore Guff cares about having as many planeswalkers on board as possible and adding loyalty counters to them, and Chandra, Acolyte of Flame is a three-mana body that sits at zero loyalty and is trivially pumped by Guff's passive — making her far more durable than she looks on her own.

04
Juri, Master of the Revue

Juri, Master of the Revue

19.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Juri, Master of the Revue grows whenever a permanent goes to the graveyard, and Chandra, Acolyte of Flame provides a steady stream of sacrificeable 1/1 tokens each turn cycle that feed Juri's power while keeping Acolyte's spell-recursion engine running in the background.

05
Shadow the Hedgehog

Shadow the Hedgehog

15.1% of decks · synergy 0.14

Shadow the Hedgehog decks lean on cheap, recurring threats and value generators that keep replaying spells, and Chandra, Acolyte of Flame's ability to rebuy any instant or sorcery with mana value three or less every turn cycle gives the deck a consistent loop of disruption or draw that Shadow's aggressive game plan can immediately leverage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Chandra, Acolyte of Flame earns her slot in any red deck that recurs spells or assembles Planeswalker synergies — the token generation is reliable chip damage, and the spell-recursion ability is genuinely powerful in a format where one recursion per turn adds up over long games. In Modern and Pioneer she saw fringe play as a value piece in Fires of Invention shells and Chandra superfriends builds, but the zero starting loyalty problem is far more punishing in competitive formats where opponents can attack planeswalkers freely. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken alternatives that Chandra, Acolyte of Flame rarely competes for a slot. Oathbreaker is the other natural home — she can serve as the signature spell's engine in a Chandra-themed shell and her three-mana cost fits cleanly under the format's faster clock.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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The Chain VeilAshnod's AltarTeferi, Who Slows the SunsetChandra, Acolyte of Flame

The Chain VeilAshnod's AltarTeferi, Who Slows the SunsetChandra, Acolyte of Flame

Infinite activations of most planeswalkers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite mana permanents you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures and lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Chandra, Acolyte of Flame isn't currently available here, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. She's a non-mythic planeswalker from a few years back, which historically keeps the ceiling modest, and she sees enough Commander demand to hold some value — pick her up if the price is reasonable rather than waiting.

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