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Pyxis of Pandemonium

Artifact1 generic mana

Symmetry as a gameplay engine, played out across an entire table. Every activation feeds the same hopper for all players at once, building a face-down stockpile no one can read, and the payoff dumps the whole thing onto the battlefield simultaneously: lands, creatures, artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, whatever the random exile happened to bury. What complicates the design is that it promises a board-state explosion but hands the same explosion to everyone, so its value depends entirely on who is positioned to exploit a sudden flood of permanents and who drowns in it. The seven-mana plus tap plus sacrifice cost on the back half is a real commitment, and the gap between the cheap tapper and the expensive detonator is the whole game: you spend turns charging an artifact whose output you cannot see and cannot aim, then pay a premium to flip the coin for the table. It rewards builds that can convert raw permanents into immediate advantage faster than opponents, and punishes the player who triggers a payoff that gives a rival the missing piece. It belongs to the same symmetrical-engine tradition as Howling Mine or Temple Bell, but where those share cards, this shares a deferred, randomized board wipe-in-reverse that resolves all at once for everyone who owns something in the pile.

Pyxis of Pandemonium (ths)
THS · #220rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $2.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Each player exiles the top card of their library face down. 7 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Each player turns face up all cards they own exiled with this artifact, then puts all permanent cards among them onto the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

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