Mischievous Chimera
Enchantment Creature — Chimera
Flying
Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Scry 1.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #18760
Mischievous Chimera turns every instant and sorcery you cast into a free scry 1, stacking consistent card selection on top of a 2/3 flying body for three mana. It's a low-cost, low-drama inclusion that earns its slot in any spellslinger shell without asking much in return.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mischievous Chimera is at its best in Commander, where a spells-matter deck casts enough instants and sorceries over a long game to convert the scry triggers into a meaningful filtering engine. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, a three-mana 2/3 that only scrys — rather than drawing — can't compete with the raw efficiency those formats demand. Vintage is legal but irrelevant; the card doesn't touch any of the power that defines that format. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant worth mentioning: a spells-heavy Oathbreaker list can generate enough triggers to make the flying body and repeated scry relevant across a shorter game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Mischievous Chimera is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not hunting it down. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow applications rarely climb unless a new commander pushes them into wide demand, so treat this as a free slot-filler rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.