Crystal Chimes
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.96
- EDHREC rank
- #8777
Crystal Chimes enters and immediately returns every enchantment from your graveyard to your hand — the payoff is front-loaded and the three-mana cost is almost incidental. In Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor builds it's a reset button for your entire curse engine, and outside of dedicated enchantment decks it has no home.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor runs curses that cycle through opponents' graveyards and boards, and Crystal Chimes refuels the entire package in one shot — every curse you've lost over the game comes back to hand ready to redeploy.
Daxos the Returned
Daxos the Returned wants enchantments cast repeatedly to stack experience counters, and Crystal Chimes turns a depleted graveyard into a full reload, letting you chase additional counters in the same turn cycle.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Crystal Chimes is a Commander card, full stop — the 100-card singleton format naturally fills graveyards with enchantments over a long game, giving the Chimes real targets. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but functionally invisible; dedicated enchantress shells there don't need a three-mana artifact when faster recursion exists. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Crystal Chimes can show up in enchantment-heavy signature spell piles, though the smaller starting life total compresses the game enough that its late-game reload is often too slow.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.96 bulk tier
Crystal Chimes sits at $0.96, firmly bulk territory, and that price is stable — it's a narrow card with a narrow audience, so there's no pressure driving it up. Pick it up cheaply if you're building Lynde or Daxos; there's no reason to wait.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor
- Daxos the Returned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.