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Combine Chrysalis

Artifact

Creature tokens you control have flying.
{2}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#5510
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Combine Chrysalis card art
Combine Chrysalis turns every token you create into a free Insect — on board, that means a token-doubling engine that scales with anything that makes creatures at scale. Plumecreed Mentor decks and Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy decks are the natural homes: both generate enough incidental tokens that the Chrysalis triggers constantly without asking you to build around it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

52.5% of decks · synergy 0.50

Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy creates artifact tokens natively and cares about having them around, so Combine Chrysalis slots in as a free multiplier — every Gremlin spawned becomes two bodies without any extra investment.

02
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

47.9% of decks · synergy 0.44

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist forces Salamander tokens onto all players, and Combine Chrysalis converts each of those forced gifts into an additional Insect on your side, turning your opponents' table equity into your board advantage.

03
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

41.9% of decks · synergy 0.38

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters already doubles token creation, so Combine Chrysalis stacks on top of that effect — every token trigger resolves into two doubled bodies, compounding exponentially in the late game.

04
Esix, Fractal Bloom

Esix, Fractal Bloom

40.6% of decks · synergy 0.36

Esix, Fractal Bloom shapes what tokens become, and Combine Chrysalis ensures there's always a fresh Insect entering to give Esix something to copy, making the two cards naturally self-reinforcing.

05
Volo, Guide to Monsters

Volo, Guide to Monsters

27.8% of decks · synergy 0.24

Volo, Guide to Monsters copies creature spells that share no type with anything in the graveyard, and the Insects Combine Chrysalis produces expand the creature-type diversity on board, giving Volo more copying triggers over the course of a game.

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

Combine Chrysalis is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play — the 100-card singleton format rewards build-around engines that generate incremental value over many turns, and token-doubling effects are at their best with a dedicated synergy package behind them. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically castable but competes against formats that end before token strategies get rolling, so it sees no meaningful play there. Modern is the only non-rotating constructed format where it could theoretically find a home in a go-wide shell, but the card doesn't impact the board immediately enough for that metagame. Stick to Commander and Oathbreaker, where the three-mana investment pays off across the full arc of a game.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Combine Chrysalis isn't currently available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its niche role in token-focused Commander decks and the relatively small pool of commanders that prioritize it, it tends to sit in the low-bulk-rare range — worth picking up while demand is limited to a specific archetype.

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