Scale of Chiss-Goria
Artifact
Flash
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs 
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
: Target creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #16296
Scale of Chiss-Goria hands you a free artifact equip that grants 5/5 worth of stats — the catch is paying five mana and sacrificing it to do so, which makes it a one-shot pump in most contexts. The one place that cost inverts into an engine is Horobi, Death's Wail, where targeting a creature to equip kills it outright, turning this bulk rare into a repeatable zero-mana removal spell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Horobi, Death's Wail
Horobi, Death's Wail turns every targeting effect into a destroy effect, so equipping Scale of Chiss-Goria to an opponent's creature kills it for free — no mana, no sacrifice cost, just a trigger — making Scale one of the most efficient removal pieces the deck can run.
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 |
Scale of Chiss-Goria is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its relevance is essentially zero outside Commander. In Pauper it's an uncommon, so it doesn't even qualify there — and in Legacy or Modern, paying five mana to equip a +5/+0 boost with no evasion attached is nowhere near competitive. Commander is the only format where Scale earns a slot, and even there it's almost exclusively a Horobi, Death's Wail card; outside that specific shell, the equip cost makes it unplayable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Scale of Chiss-Goria is deep bulk — easy to pick out of a commons box or grab as a throw-in. The price is stable precisely because demand is narrow: it's a staple in Horobi decks and nearly invisible everywhere else.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.