Chronozoa

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Chronozoa: Creature - Illusion, Planar Chaos. Flying. Vanishing 3. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}{U}
Mana value
4
Type
Creature - Illusion
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Power / toughness
3/3
Rarity
Rare
Set
Planar Chaos (PLC)
Released
2007-02-02
Collector number
37
Artist
James Wong
Commander rank
12,080 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying, Vanishing

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About Chronozoa

Chronozoa is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue creature from Planar Chaos (PLC), an expansion set released in February 2007. It is collector number 37 in that set, with art by James Wong. It costs {3}{U} (three generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. Planar Chaos is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $4.78 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Flying

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

When this creature dies, if it had no time counters on it, create two tokens that are copies of it.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $4.78 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Chronozoa by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PreDHLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Official rulings

Three official rulings apply to Chronozoa, newest first.

  • Chronozoa's last ability creates two Chronozoa tokens that each enter with three time counters and have all of Chronozoa's abilities.
  • If Chronozoa becomes a copy of another creature and is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, no copies will be created. If another creature becomes a copy of Chronozoa and is put into a graveyard from the battlefield (with no time counters on it), two copies of Chronozoa will be created.
  • The ability checks to see if Chronozoa had no time counters on it at the time it was put into a graveyard from the battlefield. This doesn't necessarily mean it must have been sacrificed due to vanishing; it could have been put into the graveyard some other way (say, while the sacrifice ability of vanishing is on the stack).

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