Pointed Discussion

EDH FUN TIMES

Seriously though, we all know that one guy who would play something like this.

The obligatory expensive red chaos card.

This one is pretty good, though. Put everything in one pile, you have a 67% chance of losing nothing...

One pile! Every time.

To be honest, if someone cast this, I'd probably do 50% 50% 0% for my piles, 'cause if I get screwed, I'll still have something. But I know a lot of people are gonna do one pile, every time.

Russian Roulette, MTG style

Perhaps a Hail Mary with Barren Glory.

Some fun chaos-inducing combo cards include Twist Allegiance/Reins of Power or Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded for entwining your opponent's fate with yours.

If you liked Game of Chaos, if you played games with ante only to use Amulet of Quoz, you'll love this! And I loved Game of Chaos. I didn't win often, but when I did, my opponents felt bad.

At any rate, before anyone goes off spewing bad math, here's how you do this with a coin, if for some reason you don't have a d6. Flip twice -
H H - Pile 1
H T - Pile 2
T H - Pile 3
T T - Flip both coins again
You can reassign flips to results if you want, but if you do anything else, either you're wasting flips or you're not randomly choosing correctly. LAZENCA HAS SPOKEN!

Fun card for EDH.
Also fun if you can fork it (or twincast or whatnot) a couple of times.

4/5

The "piles can be empty" clause makes this kinda silly. Put everything in one pile, so you have only a 67% chance of losing anything.

That means in a 2 player game, about 45% of the time this will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Put all you egg in one bask-
I mean, all your permanents in one pile!

66% of the time, it works every time.

And here's this set's token overcosted red sorcery that does random stuff to the board. These cards are never playable in any format other than Commander, and even then only if you care more about causing chaos than actually winning.

Looks like I'll be adding this card t my EDH deck!
And losing some friends...

At the Born of the Gods pre-release, you get three packs of BotG (including a semi-randomized one with the promo), and three of Theros. Getting this, Pyxis of pandemonium and three off-colour promos (most of my usable stuff was Red/Green) as my rares did not help my already lacklustre cardpool. I might have had better odds at winning had I gone the pure chaos route, heh.

I wonder if this card can be played seriously. Put most of your creatures in one pile and your Graverobber Spider in another. If your land pile gets nuked, cast Drown in Filth with two Sylvan Caryatids. Cast Showstopper before this card. If you have a creature with Gift of Immortality, put both the creature and the aura in one pile. If that pile is sacrificed, both the creature and the aura will come back.

Probably won't work. It's just meant to be a goofy card.

It's important to note you can't cast any instants or activate any abilities between choosing piles and sacrificing.

I wish this card forced you to divide your cards in hand (facedown) into the piles also. It doesn't do anything to hurt players who rely on high life points or cards in hand, so Azorius Control players will just tap all their lands to play Sphinx's Revelation in response.

@Lazenca_Seifus: Yup. Chance of picking the first pile = 1/4 (chance of HH) + 1/16 (chance of TT then HH) + 1/32 (chance of TT,TT,HH) + ... = 1/3

1/4 + 1/16 + 1/32 + 1/64 + ... = x
4x = x + 1
3x = 1
x = 1/3

guys you are doing it wrong, remember malek? malek, izzet paragon could abuse the crap out of this.

Most of my permanents over here... but all of my Ordeals over here. Hahahahaha

At first I thought this was an awkward effect and essentially useless at that. When you look a little deeper, you see that there is a lot of strategy in choosing piles, even if the outcome is random. There is hardly any reason to make 3 piles so the problem becomes 1 or 2. Strategically splitting your own piles is difficult and the fact that this is a symmetrical effect that may harm you and not your opponent requires it to be built around. It looks like a great kitchen table card but the whole "piles can be empty" kills it for competitive play. That aside, a card that really brings skill and strategy into a game of magic, above and beyond the norm.

Perhaps a deck focused on Admonition angel,Helvault,Faith's Reward etc. would work pretty well with something like this.

Better still: use something like Mindslaver to choose what you want dead. Slaver+ a spell copying effect and this could very easily lead to wiping at least half of your opponent's board and substantially less(if any) on your end.

I will slam this in every draft.