Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add .
−3: Chandra deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."
Combos with Chandra, Torch of Defiance
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Cloudstone Curio Planebound Accomplice Infinite
- Infinite planeswalker activations
- The Chain Veil Chandra, Bold Pyromancer Tezzeret the Seeker Infinite
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce
- Infinite untap of artifacts you control
- The Chain Veil Chandra, Bold Pyromancer Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset Infinite
- Infinite untap of permanents you control
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- The Chain Veil Chandra, Bold Pyromancer Ral Zarek Infinite
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite damage
- The Chain Veil Chandra, Bold Pyromancer Teferi, Timebender Infinite
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- The Chain Veil Chandra, Hope's Beacon Tezzeret the Seeker Infinite
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce
- Infinite untap of artifacts you control
- The Chain Veil Chandra, Hope's Beacon Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset Infinite
- Infinite untap of permanents you control
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- The Chain Veil Chandra, Hope's Beacon Ral Zarek Infinite
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite damage
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
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-08-21
If you cast the exiled card, you do so as part of the resolution of Chandra's ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored, but other restrictions (such as "Cast [this card] only during combat") are not.
- 2026-08-21
An effect that instructs you to "cast" a card doesn't allow you to play lands. If the card exiled with Chandra's first ability is a land card, you can't play it and Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent.
- 2026-08-21
You pay the costs for the exiled card if you cast it. You may pay alternative costs such as emerge rather than the card's mana cost.
- 2026-08-21
Loyalty abilities can't be mana abilities. Chandra's second ability uses the stack and can be countered or otherwise responded to. Like all loyalty abilities, it can be activated only once per turn, during your main phase, when the stack is empty, and only if no other loyalty abilities of the planeswalker have been activated this turn.
- 2026-08-21
Chandra's emblem's ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
- 2026-08-21
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Chandra's first ability causes 4 damage total to be dealt to the opposing team.
- 2026-08-21
The emblem created by Chandra's last ability is colorless. The damage it deals is from a colorless source.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Chandra, Torch of Defiance, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh | 2 | 0 | — |
| Spider-Punk | 2 | 0 | — |
| Daredevil, Man Without Fear | 1 | 3 | — |
| Aerid Konstrari | 1 | 0 | — |
| Commodore Guff | 1 | 0 | — |
| Klothys, God of Destiny | 1 | 0 | — |
| Photon, Mighty Marvel | 1 | 0 | — |
| Rakdos, Lord of Riots | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Red 5 decks
- Gruul 2 decks
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
- Jeskai 1 deck
Chandra, Torch of Defiance price history
The Reality Fracture #244 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $1.95 | $2.39 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $1.96 | $2.46 |
| Nov 9, 2026 | $2.15 | $2.44 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $2.00 | $2.45 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $2.10 | $2.74 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $2.10 | $2.76 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $1.96 | $2.69 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $2.00 | $2.65 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $2.07 | $2.55 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $1.96 | $2.57 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $2.13 | $2.57 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $2.17 | $2.48 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $1.96 | $2.66 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $2.09 | $2.72 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $2.17 | $2.81 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $2.37 | $3.01 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $2.25 | $2.82 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $2.27 | $2.64 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $2.19 | $2.42 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $2.09 | $2.40 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $2.30 | $2.69 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $2.33 | $2.81 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $2.08 | $3.84 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $1.98 | $3.78 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $1.78 | $3.76 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $1.94 | $3.68 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $2.06 | $7.60 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $1.85 | $6.98 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $1.79 | $7.07 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $1.80 | $6.80 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $1.65 | $3.08 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $1.53 | $2.70 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $1.64 | $2.60 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $1.78 | $2.59 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $2.02 | $2.82 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $2.41 | $2.86 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $1.98 | $3.13 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $1.72 | $3.45 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $2.29 | $3.83 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $1.88 | $3.87 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $1.86 | $3.82 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $1.96 | $3.89 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $11.71 | — |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Chandra, Torch of Defiance
10 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $1.95
- Foil
- $2.39
Promo
Reality Fracture Promos
- Normal
- $4.97
- Foil
- $6.46
Inverted
- Normal
- $3.09
- Foil
- $5.32
- Normal
- $3.32
Pioneer Challenger Decks 2021
- Normal
- $3.24
Inverted
Signature Spellbook: Chandra
- Normal
- $3.49
- Foil
- $7.80
Promo
San Diego Comic-Con 2018
- Foil
- $63.92
Promo
San Diego Comic-Con 2017
- Foil
- $32.69
- Normal
- $3.59
- Foil
- $12.95
Promo
Kaladesh Promos
- Foil
- $27.03
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Chandra, Torch of Defiance. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
