Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #289 · Rare · Legendary Creature — Human Minion

Mana cost: {2}{B}{R}

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Power/toughness 3/2 · Illustrated by Steve Prescott · Released June 18, 2021

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 25, 2026: up $0.11 USD (12.0%) to $1.03 USD; low $0.81 USD, high $1.11 USD.

Printings

  1. The List #MH2-289 (PLST) · Rare · 2024 · $0.76 USD
  2. Jumpstart: Historic Horizons #683 (J21) · Rare · 2021
  3. Modern Horizons 2 #289 (this printing) · Rare · 2021 · $1.03 USD
  4. Modern Horizons 2 #419 (MH2) · Rare · 2021 · $1.01 USD
  5. Commander 2019 #39 (C19) · Mythic · 2019 · $0.94 USD foil

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2019-08-23 · wotc — If you somehow activate Chainer's first ability more than once during a turn (perhaps because Chainer left the battlefield and returned), you can cast a creature card for each ability's permission. Similarly, if another effect allows you to cast a creature card from your graveyard, you may use that permission and later use Chainer's permission to cast another creature card.
  2. 2019-08-23 · wotc — You don't choose a creature card to cast while activating or resolving Chainer's first ability. The ability creates a permission for you to cast a creature card from your graveyard later in the turn.
  3. 2019-08-23 · wotc — Chainer's last ability triggers if Chainer enters the battlefield without being cast from your hand.
  4. 2019-08-23 · wotc — Chainer's first ability doesn't change when you can cast the creature card. You can normally only cast it during your turn while the stack is empty, but if the creature card has flash, you can cast it at other times.
  5. 2019-08-23 · wotc — Chainer's last ability triggers if the entering creature was cast from a zone other than your hand, or if it wasn't cast at all and is entering the battlefield from anywhere (including from your hand).

Played in these commander decks

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  2. Disa the Restless · in 37% of 49 decks
  3. Dihada, Binder of Wills · in 27% of 49 decks
  4. Magar of the Magic Strings · in 26% of 50 decks
  5. Doctor Doom, King of Latveria · in 13% of 46 decks
  6. Terra, Herald of Hope · in 13% of 48 decks
  7. Sauron, Lord of the Rings · in 9% of 35 decks
  8. Sauron, the Dark Lord · in 6% of 50 decks

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