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Chaos Wand

Artifact3 generic mana

Theft cards usually steal a thing you can see: a creature, a permanent, a known card from a known hand. This one steals a category instead, reaching blind into an opponent's library and pulling out the first instant or sorcery it finds, then handing it to you for free. The randomness cuts both ways and is the whole tension of the design. You might dig past a fistful of lands to flip their best counterspell or board wipe; you might just as easily surface a cantrip and burn a heavy activation on nothing. The mana commitment is steep (a four-mana activation on top of a three-mana artifact), so the card only earns its keep in decks built to crank the wand repeatedly across a long game rather than as a one-off play. What makes it more than a coin-flip is that the cost it dodges is your opponent's, not yours: the spell you cast is one they paid to put in their deck, free-cast against the grain of whatever color it belongs to. Because the activation carries no timing restriction, it fires at instant speed, so the wand can flip and free-cast a spell on their end step or in response to a threat, not just on your own turn. That puts it in the lineage of cast-from-someone-else's-deck effects, where the appeal is less the average outcome than the occasional theft of something your own colors could never play: a grindy, variance-forward engine for tables that go long enough to let it pay off, and a dead rock anywhere a game ends before then.

Chaos Wand (pm19)
PM19 · #228srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

4 generic mana, Tap: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of that library in a random order.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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