My favorite choice for a mono-black EDH general. He's mana and life hungry, but a Vampire theme in the deck will give you access to Nirkana Revenant and repeated Malakir Bloodwitch activations from his ability and a sacrifice outlet, partially solving both of those problems. His final Nightmare exiling ability can be a issue, particularly since protecting him in a mono-black deck can be an issue, but Muck Drubb, Blessing of Leeches and Shroud-granting equipment can give him at least some degree of safety.
Posted By:
MrPink343
(4/27/2010 2:52:22 PM)
Add Nim Deathmantle, it can change the creature type from Nightmare to something else so the creature doesn't get exiled when Chainer dies.
Posted By:
Etsap
(1/9/2012 2:18:30 PM)
Not that it really matters in most cases, but if you don't want to worry about the nightmares getting removed when he leaves play, remove him in response to playing his ability; then his triggered ability will go on the stack before the revived "nightmare" come into play.
Great for deal with pesky eldrazi... especially coupled with Seal of Doom
Posted By:
raptorman333
(3/20/2012 11:28:47 AM)
This guy.
He's the king of the nightmares! What more is there to say? A true legend.
And I would totally have do chainer.
Posted By:
Dream_Twist
(6/16/2012 8:08:38 PM)
@Leonidus: The weave will transform Chainer, meaning his effect doesn't go through.
Although you can totally remove all his abilities or turn him into a copy of something else to prevent that LTB trigger and keep your nightmares. Gotta love self-targeted Ego Erasure or Sudden Spoiling!
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(5/3/2013 6:10:05 AM)
Why in Karona's name did he have to self-nerf???
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(9/14/2011 2:27:34 PM)
Can anybody explain wtf is he wielding? This has gotta be the most awkward flail ever.
Posted By:
Arachnos
(8/28/2012 6:36:52 PM)
dwarf in the site that gives all minons +1/+1
also known as balthor the defiled :)
Posted By:
thaviel
(8/2/2009 5:04:45 PM)
Pretty good, but how can a Minion be a Legend?
Posted By:
UNBAN_SHAHRAZAD
(1/7/2010 10:33:29 AM)
This is one of my favorite cards (proven by my user-name), for multiple reasons, first of all, look at him! He's a total bad***! His abilities may be regarded as useless because who uses nightmares? Ill tell you who uses nightmares....you do with this card, you may lose three life and have to pay 3 black to use this, but in a black deck, you have to expect a little sacrifice to gain something great. Perfect example: say you have chainer out on you're field, and you're opponent is using a beefy green deck (my personal favorite) and you have 5 health left and just a little mana, they have 7 health left and a thorn elemental in their graveyard..a simple answer is to take the thorn, use Rite of Consumption to sacrifice it and deal 8 damage (because of the +1/+1 from chainer) and you just won the game with a total of 3 black and 3 health. Even better if this happens close to the beginning because while you may lose some life, the opposing player loses even more.
Posted By:
chainerrhysaltaiir
(8/27/2009 8:52:41 PM)