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Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Legendary Creature — Human Minion · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Chainer, Nightmare Adept actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated abilityDiscard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.
What a Chainer, Nightmare Adept deck needs
Plays as graveyard recasts (discard to cast). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures worth recasting from the graveyard
- discard outlets and self-mill
- attack triggers (uncast creatures have haste)
The Chainer, Nightmare Adept deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
- 17× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Chainer, Nightmare Adept
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.
Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
- Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
- Fomori Vault0 mana
- Spymaster's Vault0 mana
- Cryptbreaker1 mana
- Pip-Boy 30001 mana
- Tortured Existence1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Plaguecrafter3 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Chainer, Nightmare Adept is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Slimefoot And Squee + Bloom Tender + Phyrexian Altar188 decks
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Coretapper + Magistrate's Scepter30 decks
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Loran Of The Third Path + Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Ashnod's Altar2 decks
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Sidisi, Undead Vizier + Nexus Of Fate
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Loran Of The Third Path + Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Krark-Clan Ironworks
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Unstable Shapeshifter + Infinite Reflection + Liliana, Dreadhorde General
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