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Chronosavant

Creature — Giant

{1}{W}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. You skip your next turn.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Time Spiral
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#29681
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Chronosavant is a seven-mana 5/5 that reanimates itself every upkeep — the catch is skipping your next turn, which makes it a liability without a way to sacrifice it on demand. Pair it with Ashnod's Altar and that drawback vanishes: sac it for mana in response to the trigger, replay the loop, and you have a recursive threat that never costs you a turn.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Chronosavant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no competitive play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the self-reanimate loop is too slow and fragile against interaction-dense fields; cheaper and more reliable reanimation targets exist. Commander is the format where Chronosavant actually earns a slot — specifically in sacrifice and recursion shells that can exploit the repeated enters-the-battlefield trigger or combo around the skip-turn clause entirely.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Chronosavant is deep bulk — easy to pick up in trade binders or as a throw-in. That price is unlikely to move much given its narrow home, but for the decks that want it, the cost of entry is trivially low.

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