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Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Legendary Creature — Human Minion
Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.
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“Reanimator tempo: discard creatures, cast them hasty from the yard.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Commander damage
Reanimator, Sacrifice, Aristocrats
Strategy
Chainer, Nightmare Adept is a graveyard-focused reanimator commander that turns your discard pile into a second hand. Every turn, you can pitch a card to reanimate a creature directly to the battlefield, and that creature gets haste, letting you attack immediately. The deck wants to fill your graveyard quickly with good creatures while generating value through discard outlets, then chain reanimation spells into a growing army of hasty threats.
Your gameplan revolves around discarding high-impact creatures (think large flyers, ETB effects, or combo pieces) and then casting them for free from the graveyard. Since they enter with haste, you're essentially converting discard into tempo while maintaining threats. You'll win through a combination of commander damage, hasty creature attacks, and the value generated by creatures with strong enter-the-battlefield effects. The deck gets stronger the more you lean into creatures with upsides when they hit play.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors like Mystical Tutor; use mid-range discard engines like Faithless Looting and Stitcher's Supplier, and fill graveyard with decent creatures from Standard sets instead of chase mythics.
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