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Horizon Chimera

Creature — Chimera

Flash
Flying, trample
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 1 life.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander 2016
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#13063
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Horizon Chimera card art
Horizon Chimera stacks three relevant abilities — flash, flying, and a lifegain trigger on every card you draw — onto a 3/2 for four mana, and the draw-to-life conversion is the reason it gets played. Drogskol Reaver turns that trigger into a loop engine, and Shanna, Purifying Blade converts the life total directly into power, making Horizon Chimera a load-bearing piece rather than a fair roleplayer.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Shanna, Purifying Blade

Shanna, Purifying Blade

37.3% of decks · synergy 0.37

Shanna, Purifying Blade cares about life gained, and Horizon Chimera turns every draw step and cantrip into a life trigger that feeds her ability — the more cards your deck draws, the faster Shanna scales.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Horizon Chimera is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees play almost exclusively in Commander. In competitive non-rotating formats, a 3/2 flash flyer for four that gains you incidental life doesn't pass the rate check — there are simply better threats at that cost. In Commander, the calculus flips: the draw-trigger lifegain is continuous, synergy decks can chain dozens of triggers in a single turn, and the flash lets it ambush in response to a wheel or a mass draw spell. That's the format where Horizon Chimera earns its slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Horizon Chimera is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a box rather than order individually. That price is stable; it's not a hidden gem waiting to spike, just a cheap enabler for the specific life-gain-from-drawing synergy it enables.

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