Chaos Maw
Creature — Hellion
When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to each other creature.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Hour of Devastation Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #21515
Chaos Maw enters and deals 3 damage to each non-red creature — a one-sided board wipe stapled to a 7/4 body for seven mana. In red-heavy Commander builds that care about clearing the board without touching their own stuff, it earns its slot; everywhere else, seven mana is too much to pay for conditional sweeper coverage.
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 |
Chaos Maw is a Commander card through and through — seven mana is simply not a rate that competes in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where games end before it could ever matter. In Commander, the asymmetric sweeper text is the entire reason to run it: mono-red and red-dominant creature strategies get a selective board wipe that leaves their own pieces standing while devastating token swarms and utility-creature builds. It fits best in decks that can cheat it into play, sacrifice it for value, or recur it repeatedly, since paying seven honestly is a reasonable but unexciting line in a four-player game. Outside red-based creature decks, a proper board wipe like Blasphemous Act does the job at a fraction of the investment.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available for Chaos Maw right now — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current buylist and retail numbers. Given its narrow application in Commander and absence from competitive formats, it tends to sit in bulk-rare territory, making it an easy pickup if the synergy fits your deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.