Chandra's Ignition
Sorcery
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Special Guests
- Price
- $17.56
- EDHREC rank
- #493
Chandra's Ignition turns any large creature into a sweeper and a Fling all at once — hit every opponent and every opposing creature for the same number as the creature's power. The ceiling is absurd: attach it to Blightsteel Colossus and you're dealing 11 infect damage to each opponent simultaneously, which is a table wipe at instant-notice speed. Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom decks run it as a primary win condition because Okaun's doubling power quickly gets the number high enough to kill everyone in one cast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom is the defining home for Chandra's Ignition — Okaun's power doubles with each heads flip, so a single lucky sequence puts the number high enough to kill the table the moment Ignition resolves.
Thromok the Insatiable
Thromok the Insatiable devours your board to become a creature whose power scales with how many tokens you've built, and Chandra's Ignition converts that stored damage into a one-shot sweep that threatens lethal across all three opponents at once.
Melek, Reforged Researcher
Melek, Reforged Researcher cares about casting instants and sorceries, so Chandra's Ignition pulling double duty as a board wipe and a kill shot fits cleanly into the copy-and-value gameplan — especially when Melek's triggers have grown a creature to a threatening power level.
Wolverine, Best There Is
Wolverine, Best There Is accumulates +1/+1 counters from dealing damage, and Chandra's Ignition closes the loop: once Wolverine is large enough, a single cast deals that power to every creature and player, finishing what the counter buildup started.
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence grows from life-loss effects, and Chandra's Ignition is exactly the kind of mass life-loss event that spikes her power mid-game while simultaneously clearing the board — the two cards reward each other in the same turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Chandra's Ignition is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander by a wide margin. The five-mana cost is too slow and too dependent on having a large creature in play to compete in any 60-card format where opponents are winning on turn three or four. In Commander, the math changes entirely: five mana is unremarkable by mid-game, and a commander that naturally grows large — or one you've been pumping for several turns — turns Ignition into a one-card game-ender rather than a tempo loss. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card variant where it can shine, since planeswalker-adjacent creature synergies push power totals high faster.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Xenagos, God of RevelsMalignusChandra's Ignition
Near-infinite damage; Each opponent loses the game
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Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If Chandra's Ignition is out of budget, Comet Storm covers the "deal X to each opponent" half but skips the board wipe and requires much more mana investment. Soul's Fire is a strict single-target version at a fraction of the price — it keeps the "deal power to one target" effect but loses the sweep entirely, which matters a lot in a four-player game where clearing the board is half the reason to cast Ignition in the first place.
Price Context
Current price
$17.56 mid tier
At $17.56, Chandra's Ignition sits in mid-tier pricing — expensive enough to sting for a budget build, reasonable for a card that routinely ends games. It's been reprinted before and likely will be again, so holding off for a reprint dip is a legitimate strategy, but the card is ubiquitous enough in creature-combo Commander decks that demand keeps the floor stable.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Blightsteel Colossus
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
- Thromok the Insatiable
- Melek, Reforged Researcher
- Wolverine, Best There Is
- Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
- Jumbo Cactuar
- Xenagos, God of Revels
- Malignus
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos
- Frenetic Efreet
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.