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Chandra, Pyromaster

Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to up to one target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. That creature can't block this turn.
0: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
−7: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Choose an instant or sorcery card exiled this way and copy it three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Magic 2014
Price
$0.47
EDHREC rank
#12464
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Chandra, Pyromaster card art
Chandra, Pyromaster lands and immediately neutralizes a small blocker or utility creature with her zero, then generates card advantage every turn via her minus — that's real board presence for four mana. She's not Chandra, Torch of Defiance, but she does things Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh can't, and in the right shell she earns her slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh

78.5% of decks · synergy 0.77

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh decks run Chandra, Pyromaster at a 78% clip because the planeswalker-tribal angle rewards stacking Chandras — Pyromaster's exile-and-play ability turns every top-deck into a threat while Fire of Kaladesh pressures the board, and together they give the deck two distinct axes of pressure.

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, Pyromaster is a value piece in red-heavy or planeswalker-tribal builds — her zero neutralizes a utility creature each turn while her minus slowly extends your hand, and her ultimate can steal a game outright if she survives. In Pioneer and Modern, she's been pushed out of competitive consideration by more impactful four-drops; the formats have moved fast enough that a planeswalker without an immediate board-state grab or life-total threat rarely makes the cut. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — four mana is an eternity there, and the effect doesn't scale to the power level. Oathbreaker is the sweet spot outside Commander if you're building around her specifically, where she can serve as the planeswalker commander of a red spell-slinging list.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.47 bulk tier

At $0.47, Chandra, Pyromaster sits firmly in bulk planeswalker territory — the price reflects her competitive irrelevance, not a bad card. For Commander, this is one of the better value pickups in the Chandra family: you get a four-loyalty planeswalker with a repeatable effect for essentially nothing.

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