Serum-Core Chimera
Creature — Phyrexian Chimera
ONEPhyrexia: All Will Be One#215uncommon
Foil
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 960
- Illustrator
- Johan Grenier
- Found in
- Phyrexia All Will Be One MTGO Redemption · Phyrexia All Will Be One MTGO Redemption Foil · 3 more
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature.
Remove three oil counters from this creature: Draw a card. Then you may discard a nonland card. When you discard a card this way, this creature deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery.
2/4Flying
Plays as: Card Draw · Planeswalker Removal · Spell Payoff
Market · per finishspark updated 58m ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+33.3%
$0.04
$0.01 low$0.00 gap
Foil-9.1%
$0.10
$0.01 low-$0.07 gap
Finish
Market
Δ 7D · Trend
Low
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Buy / Sell Gap
Nonfoil
$0.04as of 2026-07-12
+33.3%
H $0.09L $0.01since Feb 2024$0.01
$0.01
$0.000% · normal spread
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Foil
$0.10as of 2026-07-12
-9.1%
H $0.17L $0.04since Feb 2024$0.01
$0.08
-$0.07-700% · buylist > ask
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Cheapest playable copy$0.04· across 1 printing
Rulings
1 · latest Feb 4, 2023 · one tap opens all
- WotCFeb 4, 2023
You don't choose a target for Serum-Core Chimera's last ability at the time you activate it. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you discard a card this way. You choose a target for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.