Chimeric Egg
Artifact
Whenever an opponent casts a nonartifact spell, put a charge counter on this artifact.
Remove three charge counters from this artifact: This artifact becomes a 6/6 Construct artifact creature with trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Darksteel
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #22686
Chimeric Egg sits on the board doing nothing until opponents cast enough noncreature spells — then it becomes a 3/3 artifact creature, which is a fine rate for free but a slow and opponent-dependent payoff. It's a niche role-player, not a generalist inclusion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Chimeric Egg is fringe at best — four mana for a 0/0 that requires three opponent triggers to animate is too slow and too passive against a table that might go wide or combo off before it ever matters. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card quality to make Chimeric Egg irrelevant in competitive lists, and neither format's artifact strategies need a conditional beater. Modern similarly has no home for it. The card is legal in Oathbreaker but faces the same problem: the two-player dynamic means fewer opposing noncreature spells to fuel it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Chimeric Egg is firmly bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for curiosity. Demand is low enough that the price is unlikely to move without a sudden spike in artifact-tribal or Eggs-style Commander interest.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.