Flame-Chain Mauler
Creature — Elemental Warrior
: This creature gets +1/+0 and gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25676
Flame-Chain Mauler hits the board swinging and pinging — a 3/2 with haste that deals 1 damage to any target when it attacks, stapling immediate pressure onto a repeatable damage trigger. The three-mana cost is efficient enough that you're rarely paying a premium for the effect.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Flame-Chain Mauler earns a slot in aggressive red decks that want every attacker to do double duty — the ping trigger scales well when you're swarming with multiple haste creatures each turn. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, three mana for a 3/2 haste is a fair rate but not a format-defining one; it competes in the same lane as creatures that either hit harder or replace themselves. Pauper is where Flame-Chain Mauler has the most room to shine, since common-legal haste threats with built-in reach are genuinely scarce at this cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Flame-Chain Mauler is pure bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk commons rarely climb in price without a breakout competitive performance, so treat it as a zero-cost slot filler rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.