Chainer, Dementia Master
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Minion
Oracle Text:
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.
Power/Toughness: 3/3
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Dominaria Remastered
Price ( USD): $0.25
USD: $0.25 · EUR: €0.22
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Character Background
Chainer, Dementia Master is a dark bargain incarnate: he empowers every Nightmare in your reach while turning graveyard dead into immediate board presence. In practice, his role is a grindy control-to-value plan that also functions like a pseudo-tempo engine—casting the black “reanimated” creature for a steep cost ({B}{B}{B}, plus 3 life) can swing the battlefield the turn it lands, and the fact that the returned card becomes a Nightmare means it actively grows the package while giving Chainer a unique win condition: keep reanimating Nightmare threats and outlast the opponent until their resources run dry. Build around high-impact graveyard targets (bombs or utility creatures with strong enter-the-battlefield value) and include a robust Nightmare suite to maximize the always-on +1/+1 pressure; wheel-based or discard support helps ensure you’re hitting the right cards in the graveyard. When Chainer leaves, exile all Nightmares—so treat him as the centerpiece you protect with disruption and careful sequencing to prevent a “setback turn.”
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