Chronatog Totem
Artifact
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: This artifact becomes a 1/2 blue Atog artifact creature until end of turn.
: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. You skip your next turn. Activate only once each turn and only if this permanent is a creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #19837
Chronatog Totem is a slow, fragile mana source that animates into a 4/4 by skipping your next turn — a cost so steep it almost never makes sense to pay it. Outside of niche skip-your-turn synergy decks, this is a colorless rock that produces blue mana and does nothing else worth talking about.
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 |
Chronatog Totem sees essentially no competitive play in any format where it's legal. In Commander, the only context where it earns a slot is a dedicated skip-your-turn shell — commanders like Zedruu the Greathearted or Paradox Haze decks that weaponize the drawback — and even there it's fringe. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it; better colorless mana rocks exist at every price point and the combat upside is irrelevant at those power levels. Chronatog Totem is a Commander-only card, and a narrow one at that.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Chronatog Totem is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. Don't expect that to change; the card has no competitive demand and its Commander applications are too narrow to drive price movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.