Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Chainer, Nightmare Adept: Legendary Creature - Human Minion, Modern Horizons 2. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{R}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Human Minion
- Colour identity
- Black and red (BR)
- Power / toughness
- 3/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
- Released
- 2021-06-18
- Collector number
- 289
- Artist
- Steve Prescott
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Chainer, Nightmare Adept is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black and red legendary creature from Modern Horizons 2 (MH2), a draft-focused set released in June 2021. It is collector number 289 in that set, with art by Steve Prescott. It costs {2}{B}{R} (two generic, one black and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/2 creature. Its colour identity is black and red. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Commander 2019 (2019) to Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (2021). It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.48 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.48 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Chainer, Nightmare Adept by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Chainer, Nightmare Adept has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #MH2-289 | Rare | 2024 |
| Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #683 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #419 | Rare | 2021 |
| Commander 2019 (C19) #39 | Mythic | 2019 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Chainer, Nightmare Adept, newest first.
- If you somehow activate Chainer's first ability more than once during a turn (perhaps because Chainer left the battlefield and returned), you can cast a creature card for each ability's permission. Similarly, if another effect allows you to cast a creature card from your graveyard, you may use that permission and later use Chainer's permission to cast another creature card.
- You don't choose a creature card to cast while activating or resolving Chainer's first ability. The ability creates a permission for you to cast a creature card from your graveyard later in the turn.
- Chainer's last ability triggers if Chainer enters the battlefield without being cast from your hand.
- Chainer's first ability doesn't change when you can cast the creature card. You can normally only cast it during your turn while the stack is empty, but if the creature card has flash, you can cast it at other times.
- Chainer's last ability triggers if the entering creature was cast from a zone other than your hand, or if it wasn't cast at all and is entering the battlefield from anywhere (including from your hand).
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