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Chandra, Flame's Catalyst

Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

+1: Chandra deals 3 damage to each opponent.
−2: You may cast target red instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
−8: Discard your hand, then draw seven cards. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Core Set 2021
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#12038
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Chandra, Flame's Catalyst card art
Chandra, Flame's Catalyst enters as a 5/5 haste creature that hits for 5 the turn it lands — that's more immediate pressure than Chandra, Torch of Defiance at the same mana cost. The catch is a six-mana price tag, which means she competes with your best spells rather than enabling them; she's a finisher, not a support piece, and she wins that role over slower Chandra builds but loses it anywhere Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh is doing the heavy lifting earlier on the curve.

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Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh

77.6% of decks · synergy 0.76

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh is a planeswalker-tribal commander, and Chandra, Flame's Catalyst is one of the most-played pieces in that shell — a 5/5 haste body doubles as both a damage source to flip Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh and a late-game stabilizer once the planeswalker engine is running.

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

Chandra, Flame's Catalyst sees virtually no play in competitive formats — Modern and Legacy have no interest in a six-mana 5/5 haste when faster, cheaper threats exist at every point on the curve. Pioneer is theoretically legal but the same logic applies. Commander is where she actually shows up, almost exclusively in Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh planeswalker-tribal builds where every Chandra card counts toward critical mass. In Oathbreaker she's a legal option but too expensive to be a reliable signature spell, and the format's condensed games punish six-drops that don't immediately close things out.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Chandra, Flame's Catalyst isn't available in this page's dataset — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given her narrow appeal outside of Chandra-tribal Commander builds, she typically sits in bulk-rare territory and is worth picking up cheaply if you're building that archetype.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.