Is Victory Chimes good in Commander?

Victory Chimes in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Victory Chimes puts a free mana on the table for every opponent each upkeep — not a fixed boost, but a repeating political lever that scales with pod size. The cost is near-zero: it produces as much mana as it costs to cast within a single rotation, and Lorehold, the Historian runs it in over half of all registered decks for exactly that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Lorehold, the Historian

54.4% of decks · synergy 0.53

Lorehold, the Historian wants to give opponents resources and then punish them for having them, and Victory Chimes is the cleanest mana-gift engine in the format — it triggers every upkeep without any additional action required from Lorehold's controller.

02

Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Yurlok of Scorch Thrash turns unspent mana into damage, so loading opponents up with bonus mana via Victory Chimes is a direct damage delivery system — every unused Chimes activation is life lost.

03

Kruphix, God of Horizons

19.1% of decks · synergy 0.19

Kruphix, God of Horizons converts unspent mana into a colorless bank that never drains, so the free mana Victory Chimes generates on your own turn goes straight into storage rather than disappearing at end of step.

04

Gluntch, the Bestower

17.6% of decks · synergy 0.17

Gluntch, the Bestower is built around gifting opponents resources and accumulating political equity, and Victory Chimes layers mana gifts on top of Gluntch's own triggers to keep multiple players feeling favored simultaneously.

05

Breena, the Demagogue

16.9% of decks · synergy 0.16

Breena, the Demagogue rewards opponents for attacking each other, and Victory Chimes gives them the mana headroom to cast the threats they need to swing — keeping the table moving and Breena's counters stacking.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	not legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Victory Chimes is a Commander card in every practical sense — the multiplayer upkeep trigger is almost entirely irrelevant in one-on-one formats like Legacy and Vintage, where you're handing one opponent a free mana every turn and getting nothing political in return. In Commander and Oathbreaker it reads as a three-mana accelerant that pays back across a full table rotation, which is where the math actually works. Competitive Legacy and Vintage have access to far more powerful mana artifacts, so Victory Chimes won't see play there regardless of legality.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Dowsing Dagger and Rites of Flourishing both put mana in opponents' hands at lower or comparable entry costs, though neither repeats as cleanly as Victory Chimes without additional setup. If the goal is pure political mana gifting, Dictate of Karametra gives everyone additional land drops for similar money and a flash deployment option, though it benefits opponents symmetrically and without the per-player targeting flexibility.

Price Context

Current price

$8.33 mid tier

At $8.33, Victory Chimes sits in the mid tier — justified by its near-exclusive Commander relevance and high inclusion rate in political and group-hug builds. It's a narrow card with a loyal audience, so the price is stable but unlikely to climb without a reprint.