Chainer, Dementia Master card art

Chainer, Dementia Master

Legendary Creature — Human Minion MV 5

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What it does

All Nightmares get +1/+1.

, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.

When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Combos with Chainer, Dementia Master

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Wurmcoil Engine Phyrexian Altar Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Wurmcoil Engine Phyrexian Altar Blood Artist Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Verdant Sun's Avatar Phyrexian Dreadnought Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Phyrexian Dreadnought Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Angelic Chorus Phyrexian Dreadnought Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Gray Merchant of Asphodel Sadistic Hypnotist Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Gray Merchant of Asphodel Viscera Seer Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Gray Merchant of Asphodel Dimir House Guard Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2022-12-08

    The creature put onto the battlefield by Chainer's activated ability is black only, not black in addition to its other colors. It is, however, a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. As it enters the battlefield, it is already a black Nightmare (and perhaps some other creature types); it doesn't enter and then become a black Nightmare.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Chainer, Dementia Master, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Chevill, Bane of Monsters 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Golgari 1 deck

Every version of Chainer, Dementia Master

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Chainer, Dementia Master — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.