Chaosphere
World Enchantment
Creatures with flying can block only creatures with flying.
Creatures without flying have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $10.48
- EDHREC rank
- #16179
Chaosphere blanket-grants reach to all creatures and strips flying from every non-flying blocker, which functionally shuts down most aerial combat while giving your ground threats a path through the air. It's a one-sided prison piece in any deck that attacks on the ground and needs to punch past fliers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Chaosphere is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the formats where it matters are Commander and, theoretically, Vintage. In Commander, it's a niche but real answer to token-based flying strategies and any board state where your opponent has built an aerial lock; it's permanent, affects all players symmetrically on paper but almost never symmetrically in practice. Legacy and Vintage have cleaner answers to flying threats and faster clocks, so Chaosphere never shows up there in any serious capacity. Oathbreaker is the one other format where its battlefield-warping effect is worth considering if your signature spell plan depends on ground creatures connecting.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Gravity Well is the closest functional replacement — it forces all attacking creatures with flying to lose flying until end of turn, which answers the same problem for under a dollar, though it only triggers on attacks rather than sitting as a static deterrent. If the goal is simply giving your creatures reach, Bower Passage costs even less and is more targeted, but Chaosphere's combination of granting reach and suppressing flying blockers in one enchantment is genuinely hard to replicate at a lower price point.
Price Context
Current price
$10.48 mid tier
At $10.48, Chaosphere sits in the mid tier — expensive for a narrow enchantment but explained almost entirely by its age and limited printings. It holds value because supply is thin and it hasn't been reprinted, not because demand is especially broad, so don't expect it to spike but also don't expect it to drop without a reprint announcement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.