Izzet Chronarch
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2017
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #17206
Izzet Chronarch returns any instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand the moment it enters — the payoff is immediate and requires no extra mana. The cost is a five-mana 2/2 body, which is steep, but pairing it with Ghostly Flicker turns that limitation into an engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Izzet Chronarch is a Pauper staple, where the Ghostly Flicker loop is a known and respected combo kill and five mana is an achievable threshold in that format's slower games. In Commander, it fills a niche role in Izzet spell-loop decks as a redundant recursion piece, though it faces stiff competition from cheaper alternatives like Snapcaster Mage and Mnemonic Wall. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically legal but offer no realistic home — the card is simply outclassed at every axis in those formats. Izzet Chronarch is a narrow card that earns its slot only when the deck is explicitly built around looping it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card



Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakeIzzet Chronarch
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control
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DisplacePeregrine DrakeIzzet Chronarch
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control
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Illusionist's StratagemPeregrine DrakeIzzet Chronarch
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite blinking; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite untap of lands you control
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DoppelgangIzzet Chronarch
Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite copies of all permanents; Infinite mana permanents you control can produce; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
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Saw in HalfBurnt OfferingIzzet Chronarch
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite red mana; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite black mana
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Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Izzet Chronarch is deep bulk — easy to acquire as a throw-in or cheap pickup. That price is stable; there's no scarcity pressure, and its demand is confined to Pauper and occasional Commander builds that want redundancy on the Ghostly Flicker loop.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.