Chrome Companion
Artifact Creature — Dog
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.
, 
: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #11026
Chrome Companion enters as a 0/0 that grows by 1/1 for each artifact you control when it enters — in the right shell, that's a sizeable threat for three mana with no further investment. River Song decks and other artifact-heavy builds treat it as a free payoff; anywhere artifacts are sparse, it's a 0/0 that dies immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
River Song
River Song decks lean heavily on artifact synergies, and Chrome Companion slots in as an efficient payoff that scales with the board — the more artifacts you've assembled for Song's engine, the bigger Chrome Companion lands.
Sophia, Dogged Detective
Sophia, Dogged Detective builds flood the board with Clue tokens, which are artifacts, so Chrome Companion reliably enters as a mid-to-large creature just from the clues already in play.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Chrome Companion is a Commander card — the format's artifact-dense strategies give it enough critical mass to enter as something worth caring about. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, a three-mana vanilla-ish creature with no immediate board impact and no resilience to removal doesn't make the cut. Pauper is its only realistic non-Commander home, where artifact synergies exist and the card's floor is less punishing by comparison. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient payoffs, so Chrome Companion never registers there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Chrome Companion is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if the deck wants it. Bulk artifact payoffs don't appreciate unless a new commander breaks them out, so treat it as a penny and move on.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
- River Song
- Sophia, Dogged Detective
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.