Chainer, Nightmare Adept
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.
A ready-made Chainer decklist
Complete 100-card Rakdos deck, free to read, with prices and buy links.
How Chainer decks play in EDH
Chainer, Nightmare Adept is a Rakdos commander in black and red costing 2BR, and its legendary creature - human minion line shapes the whole deck around it. It works out of the graveyard, so self-mill and cheap recursion effectively become extra card advantage. The cards below are the ones Chainer, Nightmare Adept decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $78.34Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (1)
Card draw (2)
Creatures (12)
Synergy & payoffs (3)
Lands (2)
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What colours can I use in a Chainer, Nightmare Adept deck?
Chainer, Nightmare Adept has a Rakdos colour identity, so every card in the deck must be black and red or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Chainer, Nightmare Adept?
The cards played most often in Chainer, Nightmare Adept decks include Avacyn, Angel of Horror, Curse-Marred Demon, Smaug, Wicked Worm. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Chainer, Nightmare Adept deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $78.34 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Chainer, Nightmare Adept deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.