Chimeric Staff
Artifact
: This artifact becomes an X/X Construct artifact creature until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #26497
Chimeric Staff turns itself into an X/X creature for a single activation, which pairs explosively with Crackdown Construct — one activation makes Construct arbitrarily large at instant speed. Outside that specific interaction, a six-mana artifact that becomes a creature on your terms is too slow and too small to matter.
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 |
Chimeric Staff is a Commander card in the narrowest sense: it exists almost entirely to enable the Crackdown Construct combo, and that combo lives in colorless or artifact-heavy Commander shells. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — five and six mana do far more broken things in those formats. Modern has the same problem at a lower power ceiling; there's no shell that wants a vanilla animate-artifact at that cost. Commander is the only place Chimeric Staff earns a slot, and even there it's a dedicated combo piece rather than a flex include.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Crackdown ConstructChimeric Staff
Infinitely large creature until end of turn
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Chimeric Staff is pure bulk — pick it up without hesitation if you're building the Crackdown Construct line. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, but it's also not going anywhere meaningful downward from here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.