Chandra, Torch of Defiance card art

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra MV 4

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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

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.

  • Cloudstone Curio Planebound Accomplice Infinite
    • Infinite planeswalker activations
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • 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
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Chain Veil Chandra, Bold Pyromancer Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset Infinite
    • Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Chain Veil Chandra, Bold Pyromancer Ral Zarek Infinite
    • Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
    • Infinite damage
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Chain Veil Chandra, Bold Pyromancer Teferi, Timebender Infinite
    • Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite turns
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • 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
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Chain Veil Chandra, Hope's Beacon Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset Infinite
    • Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • The Chain Veil Chandra, Hope's Beacon Ral Zarek Infinite
    • Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
    • Infinite damage
    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

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-09-20

    The emblem created by Chandra's last ability is colorless. The damage it deals is from a colorless source.

  • 2016-09-20

    In a Two-Headed Giant game, Chandra's first ability causes 4 damage total to be dealt to the opposing team.

  • 2016-09-20

    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.

  • 2016-09-20

    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.

  • 2016-09-20

    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.

  • 2016-09-20

    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.

  • 2016-09-20

    Chandra's emblem's ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger.

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

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In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Chandra, Torch of Defiance, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
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
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh 1 0 —
Commodore Guff 1 0 —
Klothys, God of Destiny 1 0 —
Photon, Mighty Marvel 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Red 2 decks
  • Gruul 1 deck
  • Jeskai 1 deck

Every version of Chandra, Torch of Defiance

9 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 Chandra, Torch of Defiance — 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.