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Malevolent Chandelier

Artifact Creature — Construct

Flying
{2}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror
Price
$0.04
EDHREC rank
#18597
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Malevolent Chandelier card art
Malevolent Chandelier gives you a repeatable, instant-speed way to put a creature from your graveyard on the bottom of your library — which is exactly the setup Grenzo, Dungeon Warden needs to guarantee his activation hits. The cost is real: five mana to activate is slow, and outside of specific graveyard-to-bottom synergies, the card does almost nothing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Malevolent Chandelier is legal everywhere but sees essentially no play outside Commander, where graveyard-to-library manipulation has a narrow but genuine home. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern, five mana for a creature-recycling ability on an artifact is far too slow to matter. Even in Commander, Malevolent Chandelier is a role-player in a specific lane — decks that care about what's on the bottom of the library — rather than a general-purpose inclusion.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.04 bulk tier

At $0.04, Malevolent Chandelier is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not buying it. That price is stable by default: there's no broader demand to push it up, and its narrow use case keeps it there.

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