Shimmerwing Chimera
Enchantment Creature — Chimera
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return up to one other target enchantment you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20872
Shimmerwing Chimera bounces a permanent you control to return an enchantment from your graveyard to your hand — that's a repeatable recursion engine stapled to a 2/2 flier for four mana. The cost is real: you need a steady stream of permanents worth bouncing and enchantments worth recurring, so it does nothing in a vacuum but goes infinite with Sage of Hours under the right setup.
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 |
Shimmerwing Chimera is a Commander card through and through — the formats where it's legal but sees no meaningful play (Legacy, Modern, Pioneer) are too fast and too focused for a four-mana do-nothing without a dedicated enchantment loop. In Commander, the 100-card singleton environment gives you the time and redundancy to assemble the recursive engine it demands, and enchantress strategies are deep enough to make that engine hum. Oathbreaker can occasionally support it in the same shells, but the 20-life clock cuts short the slow setup it needs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Sage of HoursShimmerwing ChimeraAwakened Awareness
Infinite turns; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Shimmerwing Chimera is pure bulk — the price of a sleeve, not a slot. It holds that floor indefinitely unless a new enchantment combo pushes it into the spotlight, so pick up copies freely without any concern about scarcity.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Sage of Hours
- Awakened Awareness
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.