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A Lesson in Chaos Theory
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Commander

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Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. During each player's turn, that player may cast a spell from among the cards they don't own exiled with Ian Malcolm, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Creature
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician (rex) 13

Commander

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"Talking to myself..."

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Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (sld) 1394
Cut Your Losses

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Cut Your Losses (snc) 38
Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (clb) 722
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (clb) 724
Irencrag Pyromancer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, this creature deals 3 damage to any target.

Creature
Irencrag Pyromancer (j22) 559
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Planeswalker
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (plst) WAR-54
Keeper of Secrets

First strike, haste Symphony of Pain — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent.

Creature
Keeper of Secrets (40k) 78
Maddening Cacophony

Kicker {3}{U} Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (znr) 67
Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or greater.

Sorcery
Tasha's Hideous Laughter (sld) 1395
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (plst) M19-68
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (mkc) 234
Radiate

Choose target instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single permanent or player. Copy that spell for each other permanent or player the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those permanents and players.

Instant
Radiate (tor) 113
The Mindskinner

The Mindskinner can't be blocked. If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage and each opponent mills that many cards.

Creature Enchantment
The Mindskinner (dsk) 357

"Talking to myself..."

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Essence of Chaos

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (cma) 30
Brand

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Brand (plst) USG-176
Chaos Mutation

Exile any number of target creatures controlled by different players. For each creature exiled this way, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card, puts that card onto the battlefield, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant
Chaos Mutation (40k) 111
Chaos Warp

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.

Instant
Chaos Warp (sld) 741
Chef's Kiss

Gain control of target spell that targets only a single permanent or player. Copy it, then reselect the targets at random for the spell and the copy. The new targets can't be you or a permanent you control.

Instant
Chef's Kiss (mh2) 120
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 419
Ensnared by the Mara

Each opponent faces a villainous choice — They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then you may cast that card without paying its mana cost, or that player exiles the top four cards of their library and Ensnared by the Mara deals damage equal to the total mana value of those exiled cards to that player.

Sorcery
Ensnared by the Mara (who) 384
Filter Out

Return all noncreature, nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Instant
Filter Out (mat) 7
Guff Rewrites History

For each player, choose target nonenchantment, nonland permanent that player controls. Those permanents' owners shuffle them into their libraries. Each player who controlled one of those permanents exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player may cast the nonland card they exiled without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Guff Rewrites History (cmm) 737
Invert Polarity

Choose target spell, then flip a coin. If you win the flip, gain control of that spell and you may choose new targets for it. If you lose the flip, counter that spell.

Instant
Invert Polarity (mh3) 190
Jace Reawakened

You can't cast Jace Reawakened during your first, second, or third turns of the game. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. +1: You may exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your hand. If you do, it becomes plotted. −6: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Planeswalker
Jace Reawakened (otj) 271
Mages' Contest

You and target spell's controller bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of 1. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid. If you win the bidding, counter that spell.

Instant
Mages' Contest (plst) INV-154
Perplexing Chimera

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may exchange control of this creature and that spell. If you do, you may choose new targets for the spell. (If the spell becomes a permanent, you control that permanent.)

Creature Enchantment
Perplexing Chimera (bng) 48
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (lcc) 166
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (clb) 734
The Twelfth Doctor

The first spell you cast from anywhere other than your hand each turn has demonstrate. (When you cast that spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever you copy a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on The Twelfth Doctor.

Creature
The Twelfth Doctor (who) 164
Tibalt's Trickery

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant
Tibalt's Trickery (khm) 153
Wild Magic Surge

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a permanent card that shares a card type with that permanent. They put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant
Wild Magic Surge (clb) 206
Zoyowa's Justice

The owner of target artifact or creature with mana value 1 or greater shuffles it into their library. Then that player discovers X, where X is its mana value. (They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. They cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into their hand. They put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Instant
Zoyowa's Justice (lci) 173
Zur's Weirding

Players play with their hands revealed. If a player would draw a card, they reveal it instead. Then any other player may pay 2 life. If a player does, put that card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player draws a card.

Enchantment
Zur's Weirding (ice) 110

Essence of Chaos

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Land

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Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (blc) 297
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (lcc) 329
Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Frostboil Snarl (otc) 298
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 280
Izzet Boilerworks

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (otc) 302
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Land
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (dmc) 217
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dsk) 283
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
Riverglide Pathway

Land
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (blc) 331
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (rvr) 298
Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Stormcarved Coast (who) 308
Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (blc) 333
Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (otc) 329
Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Thundering Falls (mkm) 331
Training Center

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Training Center (cmm) 665

Land

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Life Finds A Way

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Izzet Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Artifact
Izzet Signet (otc) 259
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (mkc) 156
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (p30m) 2
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (c21) 269
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414

Life Finds A Way

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The Butterfly Effect

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Burning Inquiry

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Sorcery
Burning Inquiry (plst) M10-128
Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Verbosity (clb) 717
Cutthroat Negotiator

Parley — Whenever this creature attacks, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token. Then each player draws a card.

Creature
Cutthroat Negotiator (moc) 127
Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment
Dictate of Kruphix (pjou) 37
Fevered Visions

At the beginning of each player's end step, that player draws a card. If the player is your opponent and has four or more cards in hand, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Fevered Visions (soi) 244
Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size. {X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards. {2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
Folio of Fancies (peld) 46p
Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment
Forced Fruition (wot) 18
Horn of Greed

Whenever a player plays a land, that player draws a card.

Artifact
Horn of Greed (cn2) 211
Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact
Howling Mine (plst) M10-212
Humble Defector

{T}: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of this creature. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Humble Defector (otc) 170
Jace Beleren

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Planeswalker
Jace Beleren (cmm) 850
Jace's Archivist

{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Creature
Jace's Archivist (plst) M12-59
Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Creature
Kami of the Crescent Moon (voc) 107
Lore Broker

{T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Creature
Lore Broker (rav) 57
Magus of the Wheel

{1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature
Magus of the Wheel (cmm) 241
Memory Worm

Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this creature deals 2 damage to target player. That player discards a card, then draws a card. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Memory Worm (who) 90
Noggle Ransacker

When this creature enters, each player draws two cards, then discards a card at random.

Creature
Noggle Ransacker (pca) 102
Red Death, Shipwrecker

Alluring Eyes — {T}: Goad target creature an opponent controls. That player draws a card. You add {R}. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Red Death, Shipwrecker (pip) 116
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (ema) 232
Storm Fleet Negotiator

Flying Parley — Whenever this creature attacks, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, you create a Map token. Then each player draws a card. (A Map token is an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Creature
Storm Fleet Negotiator (lcc) 78
Temple Bell

{T}: Each player draws a card.

Artifact
Temple Bell (c16) 277
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451
Wheel and Deal

Any number of target opponents each discard their hands, then draw seven cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Wheel and Deal (sld) 1262
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123
Words of Wisdom

You draw two cards, then each other player draws a card.

Instant
Words of Wisdom (ody) 114

The Butterfly Effect

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