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Chandra, Hope's Beacon

Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn.
+2: Add two mana in any combination of colors.
+1: Exile the top five cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among those exiled cards.
−X: Chandra deals X damage to each of up to two targets.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
March of the Machine Promos
Price
$2.07
EDHREC rank
#3950
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Chandra, Hope's Beacon card art
Chandra, Hope's Beacon lands and immediately copies the next instant or sorcery you cast — a free spell every turn cycle, stapled to a planeswalker who can also ping, ramp, or blast on her own. Six mana is real, but the payoff is real too: in any deck running The Chain Veil or stacking planeswalker activations, she snowballs fast enough to justify the slot over narrower threats. Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh decks treat her as a near-auto-include, and outside those tribal shells she still earns her keep in any red spellslinger build that can reliably reach six mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh

82.1% of decks · synergy 0.79

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh is the definitive home for Chandra, Hope's Beacon — the deck runs every Chandra planeswalker by design, and Hope's Beacon's copy trigger stacks with the spellslinger payoffs the deck is already assembling to chain activations together.

02
Imodane, the Pyrohammer

Imodane, the Pyrohammer

25.2% of decks · synergy 0.22

Imodane, the Pyrohammer copies instants and sorceries that target a single creature, then flings that damage at each opponent — Chandra, Hope's Beacon's copy trigger effectively doubles every Imodane trigger, turning one burn spell into four simultaneous damage events.

03
Ashling, Flame Dancer

Ashling, Flame Dancer

22.2% of decks · synergy 0.19

Ashling, Flame Dancer rewards casting noncreature spells by creating Elemental tokens and pumping them, so Chandra, Hope's Beacon's copy trigger means each spell cast fires Ashling's ability twice, doubling both the token count and the pump.

04
Lorehold, the Historian

Lorehold, the Historian

15.6% of decks · synergy 0.14

Lorehold, the Historian generates value off casting and copying spells, and Chandra, Hope's Beacon plugs directly into that loop by adding a free copy every turn without requiring an additional spell to be cast.

05

Urabrask

16.7% of decks · synergy 0.13

Urabrask taxes opponents on spells while letting you cheat costs, and Chandra, Hope's Beacon's copy trigger turns the asymmetry even sharper — you effectively cast two spells for the price of one while opponents pay the Urabrask surcharge on each of theirs.

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

Commander is where Chandra, Hope's Beacon does her best work — six mana is easier to reach in a 40-life format, and the copy trigger compounds fast once you're chaining instants and sorceries across multiple turns. In Pioneer and Modern, she's too slow for the formats' tempo demands; a six-mana planeswalker needs an immediate game-warping effect to see serious play, and while the copy trigger is powerful, it doesn't stabilize a board the way those formats require. Legacy and Vintage have the acceleration to slam her early, but those formats have more efficient ways to spend mana on turn three or four, so she rarely sees a competitive slot. Oathbreaker is a natural fit — planeswalker as commander means Chandra, Hope's Beacon can be your general, and the copy trigger on every spell makes her an engine rather than a one-shot threat.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.07 cheap tier

At $2.07, Chandra, Hope's Beacon is a bargain for a mythic planeswalker with a built-in copy trigger — she's priced like a bulk rare despite doing work in every red spellslinger or Chandra-tribal list that can reach six mana. That price is stable: she's not a competitive staple in non-Commander formats, so there's no spike pressure, and Commander demand alone keeps her off the floor.

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