Chandra, Dressed to Kill

Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

+1: Add {R}. This deals 1 damage to up to one target player or planeswalker.

+1: Exile the top card of your library. If it's red, you may cast it this turn.

-7: Exile the top five cards of your library. You may cast red spells from among them this turn. You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a red spell, this emblem deals X damage to any target (creature, player, planeswalker or battle), where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell."

Tokens

• Emblem Chandra, Dressed to Kill

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (11)

kamarupa on Fanfire

2 days ago

In tonight's friendly game (1v1v1), this deck won 1 of 2 matches against Swarmyard Rats and Red/White Stuffy Doll and 1 of 1 matches against Swarmyard Rats and Tasha's Hideous Laughter *list*. In the first match, the deck was able to use the Harmonic Prodigy + Burning-Tree Emissary trick to ramp to 4 mana on T2 to cast Chandra, Dressed to Kill. On the next turn, I used Chandra's second ability and manaaged to get a Fanatic of Mogis which I was able to cast with a second Burning-Tree Emissary to deal 18 damage to each opponent, leaving them both at 2. I then swung for lethal against the Stuffy Doll deck. The remaining player didn't do anything much and passed. I was able to swing for lethal against him as well, though I also had a Lightning Bolt that would have sealed the deal. T4 win.

The next game I was ganged up on and the Stuffy Doll deck really targeted me. They couldn't change that target tho, so they were eventually overwhelmed. That player having lost twice was allowed to change decks, as per our group's rules. They changed to their Tasha deck.

In game three, everyone hates Tasha and ganged up on that player. Their deck fizzled after removing over half of their opponent's libraries. Then it was was just a slow grind until eventually I drew and played a Fanatic of Mogis for way more damage than I needed for the win. The rats would have had the win if they had one more turn.

Then a tornado warning went off and everyone went offline. Fun night!

wallisface on The Party Pyromaniac

11 months ago

Some thoughts:

• You probably want to be running 3-4 Fiery Temper so that you can fully abuse Party Thrashers effect.

• neither Vexing Devil nor Chandra, Dressed to Kill are any good in burn, or modern in general. I’d suggest ditching both. The above mentioned Fiery Temper makes a good replacement for some of these slots, you could easily run Goblin Guide, or maybe even Blazing Rootwalla to get back up to 60.

Jimmithee on Disco Inferno (Burn, Baby, Burn)

1 year ago

I was half-expecting Chandra, Dressed to Kill to be in here somewhere...

Icbrgr on

1 year ago

Another possible 3MV card I've been considering has been Chandra, Dressed to Kill... the idea is that is your mana flooded and pay {3} on turn 3 her first +1 can ping for 1 damage and provide a {R} for casting a Lightning Bolt/similar and if out of gas possibly use her second +1 to just get that last burn spell... might not be worth it but thought I would bounce the idea off a fellow 2023 burn player.

Icbrgr on Favorite mtg art

1 year ago

I never get tired of threads like this... the artwork is one of my favorite things about this game; even when I was a child and had no clue how to play I used to love looking through my older brothers rubber banded together cards and just look at them... Memory Lapse always intrigued me for some reason.

Now as an adult I tend to get drawn into art for 3 main reasons

• sheer awesomeness Keldon Marauders

• pretty ladies Vulshok Sorcerer

• outright adorable Canyon Jerboa

In recent sets I think my favorite would probably be Chandra, Dressed to Kill... it's my first alternate/borderless art that I've ever picked up and I'm pretty fond of it.

Xica on Chandra or Blood Moon?

2 years ago

I have to point out that Chandra, Torch of Defiance is not what she used to be.

In my estimation she was up there head to head Jace, the Mind Sculptor as the most powerful walker at 4 mana. Then planswalker targeting rules got "errata-ed".

Before the errata, her 1st ability (like all damage aimed at players) could be redirected to hit walkers - which couldn't be targeted by damage spell, instead you had to redirect the damage you aimed at the player controlling the walker.



As such Chandra, Dressed to Kill is "THE" red planeswalker.

In regards to Blood Moon i would say that its likely to become more and more powerful, as effective zero deckbuilding cost domain decks are likely to become more and more common due to cards like Prismatic Ending & Leyline Binding. Which make things like aspiring spike's self mill combo borderline immune to hate.
I would also like to note, that said deck is likely to become the Tier0,5 to Tier0 format warping force. Free counters + t3feri + 2 playset of universal removal + instant win?
...i have hard time immaginig hate cards that could work.

Yes, blood moon is not an auto win.
However it delays your opponent enough to give you a fighting chance.

griffstick on Casting spells from exile (blue …

2 years ago

Apex of Power, Soulfire Eruption, Mind's Dilation, Cast Through Time, Mind's Desire, Urabrask, Heretic Praetor, Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Atsushi, the Blazing Sky, Urza, Lord High Artificer, Chandra, Dressed to Kill, Flameskull, Prophetic Flamespeaker, Epic Experiment

legendofa on The Pain of Red Fell

2 years ago

What do you think about switching Chandra, Pyromaster for Chandra, Dressed to Kill? Lower mana cost, similar effects, but you lose the creature damage from this source.