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Chromatic Sphere

Artifact

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#5159
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Chromatic Sphere card art
Chromatic Sphere replaces itself the moment you crack it — one mana in, one card out, any color produced — and that zero net cost is exactly what artifact-combo engines want. The ceiling isn't the mana fixing; it's that Emry, Lurker of the Loch can cast it from the graveyard turn after turn, turning a bulk trinket into a repeatable draw trigger.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

38.7% of decks · synergy 0.37

Emry, Lurker of the Loch loops Chromatic Sphere from the graveyard for free, generating a draw and a colored mana each pass — stack enough free or cost-reducing artifacts and the loop becomes a full engine rather than a one-shot.

02
Glissa, the Traitor

Glissa, the Traitor

27.2% of decks · synergy 0.27

Glissa, the Traitor recurs Chromatic Sphere every time a creature dies on your opponents' side, which in a removal-heavy board means near-constant access to a cantripping mana rock that also feeds artifact-count synergies.

03
Lyse Hext

Lyse Hext

27.1% of decks · synergy 0.27

Chromatic Sphere is exactly the cheap, expendable artifact Lyse Hext wants to sacrifice or recur for value, and its self-replacing draw means it costs nothing in card economy to slot it into the engine.

04
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain

21.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Every historic permanent is a Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain trigger, and Chromatic Sphere delivers two in one line — cast it to draw, crack it to draw again — making it one of the most efficient cantrip chains in the deck.

05
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

16.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts on a steady stream of artifacts entering and leaving play, and Chromatic Sphere's low cost and built-in sacrifice make it a reliable way to grow Syr Ginger while replacing itself in hand.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Chromatic Sphere earns its slot almost exclusively in artifact-combo shells — it's not a generic mana-fixer but a cheap cantrip that decks running Emry or Jhoira treat as a free spell. In Pauper, the card sees occasional play in artifact-synergy brews and Affinity-adjacent strategies where the self-replacing draw matters more than the color production. Legacy and Vintage have access to more powerful zero-mana artifacts, so Chromatic Sphere is a fringe role-player there rather than a staple. Modern can run it but rarely does — the bar for one-mana do-nothings is high and better cantrip-artifacts exist in most shells. Pioneer and Standard are off the table entirely.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Chromatic Sphere is firmly bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not any scarcity premium. Bulk artifacts with active combo use tend to sit flat or drift slightly upward over time, but at this price the only reason to hesitate is deciding whether your deck actually wants it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.