Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Dragon
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs 
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying, haste
Whenever Chiss-Goria attacks, exile the top five cards of your library. You may cast an artifact spell from among them this turn. If you do, it has affinity for artifacts.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander
- Price
- $2.14
- EDHREC rank
- #7172
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant gives every artifact you cast affinity for artifacts — a passive that can effectively reduce costs to zero in a dense artifact shell — then swings as an 8/8 flying trampler that exiles five cards off the top and lets you cast any artifacts among them for free that turn. The cost is real: nine mana base, with the affinity reduction requiring an already-established board. Imskir Iron-Eater is the natural partner, consuming those free casts for life and draw, but Chiss-Goria earns its slot on raw size and cast-velocity alone.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Imskir Iron-Eater
Imskir Iron-Eater converts the cascade of free artifact casts that Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant enables directly into cards drawn and life gained — every zero-cost artifact off the top of the exile is a trigger for Imskir Iron-Eater's sacrifice outlet, making the two a self-sustaining engine of card advantage and board presence.
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 |
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant is a Commander card through and through — the combination of affinity cost reduction and the attack trigger's free-cast window rewards the 100-card singleton density of artifact payoffs that Commander naturally encourages. In Legacy and Vintage, the nine-mana floor is prohibitive: those formats have faster, more consistent affinity payoffs and no reliable way to leverage the exile-five trigger before the game is over. Oathbreaker is technically legal but suffers the same problem — the effect is splashy, not surgical. Play it in Commander, specifically in artifact-heavy builds, and nowhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.14 cheap tier
At $2.14, Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant sits in budget-mythic territory — powerful enough to anchor a strategy, cheap enough to include without deliberation. Demand is concentrated in a specific Commander niche, so the price is unlikely to spike unless a mass-artifact commander breaks into the mainstream, but it's also not going lower given the raw power ceiling the card offers.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.