Chimeric Idol
Artifact
: Tap all lands you control. This artifact becomes a 3/3 Turtle artifact creature until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #27729
Chimeric Idol is a three-mana artifact that turns into a 3/3 attacker whenever you tap all your other artifacts — respectable stats for zero additional mana once it's in play. The ceiling rises sharply if Crackdown Construct is on the battlefield, where each activation becomes a free pump trigger and the Idol shifts from role-player to win condition.
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 |
In Commander, Chimeric Idol is a niche pick — it slots cleanly into artifact-heavy strategies that already want to tap their rocks for something beyond mana, and it becomes genuinely threatening in any shell running Crackdown Construct. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy and Vintage, but both formats move too fast and demand too much from a three-mana do-nothing-on-arrival artifact; it sees no meaningful play there. Oathbreaker is the other legal home, where the smaller card pool makes synergy-payoffs like Chimeric Idol easier to exploit.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Crackdown ConstructChimeric Idol
Infinitely large creature until end of turn
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Chimeric Idol is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful, so there's no reason to hesitate picking up copies for a synergy build.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.