Chainer's Edict
World Championship Decks 2002 cr57 • uncommon
- Set
- World Championship Decks 2002
- Collector number
- cr57
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Ben Thompson
- Finish
- Gold
What it does
Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Flashback 5 generic mana black mana black mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
The pits have their own form of mercy.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Chainer's Edict was originally printed in the Torment expansion in 2002, serving as a powerful removal spell that exploited the graveyard mechanics central to the set's theme. The card gained significant tournament notoriety when Carlos Romão used it as a cornerstone of his Psychatog-based control deck to secure victory at the 2002 Magic: The Gathering World Championship in Sydney. The version released in the 2002 World Championship Decks product serves as a commemorative reproduction, featuring the gold-bordered face and signature of the champion to celebrate his tactical success.
The card was illustrated by Anthony S. Waters, who captured the eerie, gothic aesthetic of the Otarian setting. The design focused on the flavor of the character Chainer, a dementia-warped pit fighter capable of manifesting nightmares. This specific World Championship edition was curated by Wizards of the Coast to allow players to experience the exact deck composition used by Romão at the highest level of competitive play, effectively acting as a historical artifact of the tournament meta-game from that era.
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