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Chaos Channeler

Creature — Human Shaman2 generic manaRed manaRed mana

The d20 here is doing something quieter than most dice mechanics allow. Where a lot of variance-based cards make you gamble on the outcome, this one sets a payoff floor that only climbs: even the worst attack (a 1 through 9 result) exiles a card from your deck with permission to play it, a rate a mono-red beater would happily wear on its own. The die is not the risk; it is the upgrade path. A 10-plus doubles the yield, a natural 20 triples it, and no roll leaves you empty-handed. Note the wording is exile-and-play rather than draw, so the advantage is bound to the current turn: whatever flips has to be played now, which favors a curve of cheap spells and lands you can dump before end step rather than cards you bank for later. Bind the value to the swing turn and a 4/3 generating advantage on every attack stops being simply overloaded, because the surplus rots if you cannot spend it fast. It sits in the aggressive-red tradition of bodies that turn combat into resources, drawing more from the impulse-exile red of the last decade than from the older discard-to-cast designs, and it pays that lineage back with a mechanic that rewards attacking early and attacking often.

Chaos Channeler (afr)
AFR · #136uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Wild Magic Surge — Whenever this creature attacks, roll a d20. 1—9 | Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn. 10—19 | Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them this turn. 20 | Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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