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Chainer, Dementia Master

Chainer, Dementia Master

Legendary Creature — Human Minion · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander

All Nightmares get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, 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.
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What Chainer, Dementia Master actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Chainer, Dementia Master deck needs

Plays as nightmare typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Chainer, Dementia Master deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Chainer, Dementia Master

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  2. Banehound1 mana
  3. Fear of Lost Teeth1 mana
  4. Haunt of the Dead Marshes1 mana
  5. Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel3 mana
  6. Dream Beavers1 mana
  7. Zagoth Mamba1 mana
  8. Dread Presence4 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  4. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  5. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  6. Millikin2 mana
  7. Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
  8. Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Tainted Pact2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Herald's Horn3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Get your board back after a wipe

  1. Victimize3 mana
  2. Lively Dirge2 mana
  3. Living Death5 mana
  4. Gisa, Glorious Resurrector4 mana
  5. Liliana's Talent2 mana
  6. Living End0 mana
  7. Rise of the Dark Realms9 mana
  8. Patriarch's Bidding5 mana

Combos with Chainer, Dementia Master

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Chainer, Dementia Master is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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