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Spellheart Chimera

Creature — Chimera1 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

A flyer with trample whose body grows out of your own graveyard is doing something unusual for a beatdown threat: it asks the spellslinger to spend cards rather than hoard them, and rewards a turn spent cantripping or burning as much as a turn spent attacking. The toughness sits at a fixed 3, which anchors the design: the creature survives the same removal regardless of how stacked the graveyard is, so the variable power never makes it more fragile, only more lethal. That split matters because it dodges the usual problem with graveyard-fueled creatures, where a big body invites the same answers that empty the yard. Here the chimera stays a 3-toughness blocker on an empty graveyard and a flying, trampling clock once the spells pile up, and the evasion package means it does not need to grow huge to close: even a modest count gets through. The line it draws is the line spells-matter decks have always wanted to draw, between a card you cast for value and a card you cast to win, and this body collapses those into one. Every cantrip and removal spell already in the bin is stored power waiting to be redeployed in the air.

Spellheart Chimera (dds)
DDS · #25uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, trample Spellheart Chimera's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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