Chaos Warp
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Chaos Warp

{2}{R}

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The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Why is this card good?

Chaos Warp is red's premier catch-all answer, and that's a huge deal in a color historically starved for removal. Red can't reliably destroy enchantments or interact with planeswalkers, but Chaos Warp hits any permanent — artifact, enchantment, creature, planeswalker, even a problematic land. That flexibility is why it's a near-auto-include in mono-red and red-heavy decks. The catch: it doesn't kill anything cleanly. The owner shuffles the permanent away (no graveyard value for them) but gets a free top-deck flip, which can put a permanent onto the battlefield. Roughly a third of the time you're "gambling" them into a new threat. That's an acceptable price for hitting something you otherwise can't touch. Use it on must-answer permanents — an opposing combo piece, a backbreaking enchantment, a flipped Stax engine. Don't waste it on cheap creatures where the random flip could hand your opponent a better card. It's a precision tool, not a value engine. In red, that flexibility is irreplaceable.

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Rulings (5)

  • 2011-09-22

    A permanent card is a card with one or more of the following card types: artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker.

  • 2011-09-22

    The owner of a token is the player under whose control the token was put onto the battlefield. If a token is shuffled into a player's library this way, that player shuffles before revealing the top card of that library.

  • 2011-09-22

    If the revealed card is not a permanent card, it remains on top of that library.

  • 2011-09-22

    If the permanent is an illegal target by the time Chaos Warp tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will occur. No library will be shuffled and no card will be revealed.

  • 2011-09-22

    If the revealed card is a permanent card but can't enter (perhaps because it's an Aura with nothing to enchant), it remains on top of that library.

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