Ghitu Chronicler
Creature — Human Wizard
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20231
Ghitu Chronicler is a two-mana 1/3 that returns an instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand when it enters — value you get on the body without spending extra mana. The catch is kicker: paying the full five mana lets you cast that spell directly, which is the line that makes Ghitu Chronicler worth building around in big-red and goblin storm shells, particularly alongside Battle Hymn to bankroll the kicker.
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 |
Ghitu Chronicler is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it earns its keep almost exclusively in Commander and Pauper. In Commander, redundancy in graveyard recursion is everywhere, so the card competes hard — it fits goblin-heavy or spell-storm lists where the kicker is a realistic turn-four or five play. In Pauper it's a legitimate role-player: commons that rebuy spells at common rarity are thin, and the 1/3 body isn't irrelevant in a format where burn rules the ground. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer simply move faster than a five-mana kicker ever can — Ghitu Chronicler never makes those 60-card lists.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Battle HymnCloudstone CurioGhitu ChroniclerRevolutionist
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite red mana; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Ghitu Chronicler is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box or throw in a trade binder without thinking. Bulk rares and niche commons rarely appreciate unless they spike in a popular format, and nothing about Ghitu Chronicler's power level points toward that outcome.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.