Chrome Courier
Artifact Creature — Thopter
Flying
When this creature enters, reveal the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. If you put an artifact card into your hand this way, you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War Commander
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #15575
Chrome Courier lands as a 2/2 with an enters-the-battlefield loot — discard a card, draw a card — which is fine but unremarkable for three mana. The ceiling is in graveyard and artifact synergy decks that want the discard trigger more than the body; everywhere else, it's outclassed.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Chrome Courier is a role-player in artifact or graveyard strategies that need cheap, repeatable discard outlets on a body — think Daretti, Scrap Savant or Feldon of the Third Path shells. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have faster, more efficient looters that make it a non-starter in competitive play. Pauper is the format where Chrome Courier has the most realistic case: common-legal looters are a real category, and a 2/2 body attached to the effect has some game in artifact synergy decks at that level.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Chrome Courier is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the effect. Bulk commons with narrow appeal don't tend to move unless a new synergy commander breaks through, so don't expect this to leave the bulk bin.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.