Daybreak Chimera
Creature — Chimera
This spell costs 
less to cast, where X is your devotion to white. (Each 
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)
Flying
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25312
Daybreak Chimera is a 3/3 flyer that can cost as little as one white mana if your devotion is high enough — the ceiling is real, but so is the floor. Outside dedicated white-devotion shells, it's a five-mana vanilla flyer, and that's not a card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Daybreak Chimera is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it has the best shot at relevance — white devotion strategies there can reliably discount it by turn three or four. In Commander, the card is too conditional: devotion across 100-card singleton is inconsistent, and a 3/3 flyer at reduced cost still doesn't move the needle in a format where threats scale to eleven. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have no reason to look at it when white has far more efficient threats at every point on the curve. This is a Pauper role-player at best, and a bulk rare in every other context.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Daybreak Chimera is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a dollar box without looking. It won't hold or gain value; casual demand for a conditional, format-specific common is essentially zero outside Pauper, where it costs the same to pick up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.