Volatile Chimera
Conspiracy: Take the Crown 59 • rare
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Collector number
- 59
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Mathias Kollros
- Market price
- $0.14
What it does
Before you shuffle your deck to start the game, you may reveal this card from your deck and exile three or more creature cards you drafted that aren't in your deck.
1 generic mana red mana: Choose a card at random you exiled with cards named Volatile Chimera. This creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Volatile Chimera was released in 2016 as part of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set Conspiracy: Take the Crown. This set was designed specifically for multiplayer draft formats, introducing mechanics that manipulated the social and political dynamics of the game table. Within this context, the Chimera was engineered as a high-risk, high-reward creature that allowed players to exile cards from their library to potentially mimic the abilities of other creatures, embodying the chaotic and unstable nature of the set's central themes.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Mathias Kollros, who has been a frequent contributor to the Magic: The Gathering franchise. Kollros focused on a grotesque, multi-faceted creature design that visually communicated the card's erratic ability to shift forms. The aesthetic was received as a strong thematic fit for the set, leaning into the darker, more unsettling artistic direction established for the Conspiracy narrative.
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About Volatile Chimera
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