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Horizon Chimera

Creature — Chimera2 generic manaGreen manaBlue mana

The body is the bribe, and the lifegain trigger is what you actually bought. A 3/2 flier with trample for four mana is a fair-ish flash creature on its own, the kind of thing you flash in during combat to ambush an attacker or hold up at end step to keep mana open for interaction. But the line that earns the slot is the draw-to-lifegain clause, which converts every cantrip, every card-advantage engine, every extra draw into incidental life. The design quietly rewards a deck that was already going to draw cards by stapling a soft offsetting clock to that plan, so the card's value scales with how hard you lean into card flow rather than with anything it does in combat. That makes it a strange hybrid: the two impulses of blue-green expressed in one body, the beatdown-curve creature and the value-engine payoff sharing a frame. The trigger fires on every draw, not just the first per turn, so the more a deck cycles, the more the chimera bleeds the race back in your favor against aggression. Flash is the connective tissue here, letting it land at instant speed so you never tap out into a flier you also want as an attacker. It is a finesse card masquerading as a beater: the stats put it in the red zone, but the reason to run it is the slow drip of life it pays out for doing what your deck wanted to do anyway.

Horizon Chimera (ths)
THS · #194uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Flying, trample Whenever you draw a card, you gain 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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