Stormchaser Chimera
Creature — Chimera
Flying
: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Journey into Nyx
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28239
Stormchaser Chimera lands as a flying beater that scales with your instant and sorcery count and replaces itself by scrying when it attacks — real pressure stapled to card filtering. The cost is that it's a creature in a role slots that usually want noncreature spells, which means it competes with the very cards that make it good.
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 |
Stormchaser Chimera is a Commander card first and foremost — spellslinger decks running Veyran, Voice of Duality or Melek, Izzet Paragon want cheap, scalable threats that pull double duty as filtering engines, and Stormchaser Chimera does exactly that. In Modern and Legacy the bar for a four-mana creature is severe: it has no immediate protection and dies to every removal spell before the scry trigger ever fires, so it doesn't make the cut in competitive shells. Pioneer is in the same boat. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander dynamic closely enough that it's playable in spell-heavy builds there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Stormchaser Chimera is deep bulk — slot it freely without any budget consideration. Bulk rares rarely recover unless they find a broken combo home, and nothing on the horizon suggests that for this card, so buy a playset for a quarter and don't think about it again.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.