Volatile Chimera
Creature — Elemental Chimera
Before you shuffle your deck to start the game, you may reveal this card from your deck and exile three or more creature cards you drafted that aren't in your deck.
: Choose a card at random you exiled with cards named Volatile Chimera. This creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #30710
Volatile Chimera is a shapeshifting threat that continuously mutates into a random creature type each turn, making it unpredictable to block and difficult to hate out with tribal removal. The cost is exactly that unpredictability — you don't control what it becomes, so synergy payoffs are luck-dependent.
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 |
Commander is where Volatile Chimera has the most room to breathe, particularly in Chaos or Shapeshifter-tribal builds that lean into randomness as a feature rather than a liability. In singleton, the lack of redundancy means you're running it for the chaos effect itself, not as a reliable combo piece. Legacy and Vintage are legal but essentially irrelevant — the card is too underpowered and inconsistent to compete in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other context worth noting, where a lower-power table might enjoy the chaos angle without punishing you for the inconsistency.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Volatile Chimera is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because the effect costs nothing to try. Bulk rares with niche appeal rarely recover meaningfully, so treat this as a throw-in, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.