Chaotic Strike
Instant
Cast this spell only during combat after blockers are declared.
Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.54
- EDHREC rank
- #15654
Chaotic Strike flips a coin and draws a card if you win — cheap cantrip-style upside stapled to the exact mechanic that Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom is built around. Outside that shell it's a worse Opt; inside it, every flip trigger is also card selection.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom turns every coin flip into a doubling effect on Okaun's power, and Zndrsplt draws a card on each won flip — Chaotic Strike stacks directly onto both halves of that engine for a single red mana.
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 |
Chaotic Strike is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only matters in one of them. In Commander it earns a slot exclusively in dedicated coin-flip decks — anywhere else it's a one-mana sorcery that sometimes draws a card, which isn't a ringing endorsement. Legacy and Vintage offer no home for it; those formats have no coin-flip payoffs worth building around, and pure cantrips at sorcery speed need to do more than flip a coin to see play. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where a coin-flip oathbreaker could justify it, but the card pool is narrow enough that the same Okaun shell logic applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.54 bulk tier
At $0.54, Chaotic Strike sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for niche demand from coin-flip Commander decks, not broad utility. It won't climb without a high-profile coin-flip commander pushing the archetype, so grab it cheap if you need it and don't expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.