Lexew: they have to be in play. I still have the larger version from some old issue of the Duelist, I love the look on my opponents face when I pull that sucker out!
SlackWareWolf
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(6 votes)
I had to sell mine off years ago to complete a deck, but I was REALLY good with aiming. most everyone stacked Lands and creatures next to each other so it was more a matter of getting a ruler out and making sure it was a foot off and then watching them think "This sucks".
I still have the shredded pieces left from the last time I used one. I heard about the guy who did it and couldn't resist, so I tried, and it worked, and now that it's worth a crap load of cash, I have a reminder not to do that again.
Promatim
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(6 votes)
wolf, you're thinking of chaos confetti, which is worth approximately 50 cents.
you probably ripped up a chaos confetti, not a chaos orb. if you did rip up a chaos orb, not only did you destroy an 80 dollar card, but you played it illegally and without reading it.
Roxolan
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(8 votes)
According to an urban legend, a tournament player once tore his copy to pieces and spread the pieces over his opponent's cards, destroying all of them. His opponent promptly called a judge and had him disqualified for only having 59 cards left in his deck.
@ Arachibutyrophobia: there is also Falling Star. Both are now banned in all formats. Remember this goes back to Alpha, when the rules and tropes of Magic weren't well-defined yet.
person1234
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Wouldn't decks have only 40 cards not 60 when this would have been played?
GainsBanding
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
I guess we'll never get a Magic Online version of this. It wouldn't be quite the same.
Vadoff
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
@Promatim
People actually did rip up their Chaos Orbs in order to hit as many targets as possible, this was sanctioned in tournaments. This was a long time ago when Chaos Orb wasn't that valuable, and when people didn't estimate that the value of these cards would go up so dramatically.
It wasn't due to specifically one person, but rumors in general about this going around was what led Wizard to create the unglued card Chaos Confetti.
ScissorsLizard
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Points for being LEGENDARY in the magic cannon. The story alone is worth a 5/5.
Kartakass
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If it wasn't banned it would be simply the best sideboard card in the whole game. Needs to be unbanned, I'd play one in every vintage deck just for the heck of it.
BathoS
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
One of my favorite decks was a white deck abusing Chaos Orb and Argivian Archaeologist The first time i played with someone always went the same;
Game 1 - Chaos orb, activate it, *flip* destroy 4 lands, 2 creatures, 1 artifact...game over
Game 2 - Chaos orb, activate it, *flip* destroy 1 creature because all his cards in play are on top of glasses, under tables, on windowsills,
taped to counters(no lie). I became good at landing it on top of cards in the most ridiculous of places
...good times
...and then I showed to a tournament where the *restricted* list first came down, my entire deck was gutted, no more good times with the Chaos Orb :(
I love this card so much because of the power(duh), art (Tedin ftw) and especially the flavor. IT'S A BIG ROLLING FACEBALL OF DESTRUCTION!
tom_hero
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5 for awesomeness and iconic value. -1 for difficulty in judging.
hid@n
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
In response to you casting your chaos orb, I am going to move all my permanents at least a foot apart. (This ability can be activated any time you could play an instant) And because card sleeves count as part of the cards (yeah, check the additional rulings), I am also going to get rid of those now. :)
Tezz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
if someone used this against you, couldnt you just grab it in midair and throw it off the table? doesnt say you cant do that :P i would lol so hard
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(10 votes)
Try using it alongside Guardian Beast - since the Orb is destroyed rather than sacrificed, and the Beast prevents artifacts from being destroyed, it will stick around to be used for as many times as you have mana.
Also, it DROOLS LAVA.
Kindulas
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Wow, If you told someone about this nowadays and they didn't know of it, theyt would not believe it existed. Today, we know not to ever let a cards physical existance enter the game
nvirus63116
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
My personal favorite were all the losers at small town tourneys who would jump up and down and scream murder if you tried to move any cards around on a crowded table before they played this. "No you can't move your cards around! I wanna take them ALL out!"
chinkeeyong
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Gatherer rulings are hilarious.
dberry02
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Too bad for you...
WE'RE PLAYING CASUAL! *flips card into the air*
tantallum99
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
how bizzare. both the flipping into the air, and the fact that the art is a big fireball vomiting.
theabyss
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(3 votes)
i love making this card indestructable..its so much fun to thorw it each turn BTW its EDH legal
Rakdos.Da.Purifier
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
My friends play with their lands in piles.....
SolidSoldier
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Reminds me of the falling moon from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask... except, well... it's drooling LAVA.
And it's kind of funny, in the video game, you have 3 days until the moon dropped. In Magic, you have 3 turns (unless you ramped) until the orb activates. :D
Madrai
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Glissa, the Traitor has a new best friend.
helluin
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(11 votes)
From the rulings: "If you have sleeves on cards, they count as the cards."
(6): Hit your opponent with a pillow. Every turn. And it uses no Un-cards
Arachibutyrophobia
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
wow really
ChaosK
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
"10/4/2004 You can't interfere in any physical way with the casting of this card."
Whoa - does that mean i cant punch them in the face if they play that card? Big let down :(
But seriously - hilarious card, in so many ways
Nooneyouknow
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Why does Gatherer have this card listed as Legal in Vintage and Legacy? o.0;;
Russian.Thunder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is officially my favorite card.
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Mind boggling how this made it into the game. Much like ante, there are certain things you just don't do if you want to be taken seriously.
drpvfx
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
So the other night, my fine lady, she's like, "yo, boy- I gots ya a card. A card that can wreck a whole buncha cards!" So I open it up and see this banned sh*t, and I'm like "B*tch, don't you know this all banned by the DCI and sh*t? It's not a part of this system!" I THREW IT ON THE GROUND.
The ground was then destroyed, as was Chaos Orb.
IUHoosier
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Make it indestructible with That Which Was Taken in a deck of any colors so you can reuse it!
Use top loaders as sleeves.
Also, instead of tearing it up, just tear pieces off the edges so you still have enough of the card that your opponent can't get you disqualified for being a card down.
Purple_Shrimp
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
they should make an oversized promo version of this card
Fill3r
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
toss it like ol' Remy Lebeau. Surprised to get the first Gambit reference on this.
sk00kes
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card used to be my absolute favorite card. My group of friends would allow me to play it, even though it was banned. It was so fun to use amongst friends, but after awhile i singled out one single pal of mine with it and would only use it on him. Why? Because he always deserved it, that's why... 2 things. After a bit of practice my form was to hold the card by the side using my thumb and index finger. Then simply release my thumb and let the card flop, worked like a charm EVERY single time. And i sold all the card in my collection, and i don't even want to speculate how much they would be worth today, i know a huge amount. But i have no regrets really, but the one card i do regret not keeping is one Chaos Orb i owned which i had signed by Mark Tedin at a convention in Seattle. i asked him if he could not only sign it, but add a cartoonish caption above the artwork with the words "Bleeeeaaahhh", just as if you could hear the beast vomiting lava. He looked at me kind of funny at first, but he was totally cool, and signed it like that, and we both got a good laugh at the notion. Yah i wish i would have kept that one...
kiseki
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
You are complicating things umumwhatshisname. Just imprint this onto Prototype Portal to make your exploding pillow tokens. That is for the first use, and for each subsequent use.
BonniePrinceCharlie
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
@ Wizards, please make this an oversize promo card. Thanks.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Why is this banned? To many QQ in tourney.
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
We need a ruling for this regarding tokens. If I somehow manage to create a token of Chaos Orb, am I allowed to use a big pillow or other large objects, or do they have to have the same size as cards?
TwentyFifthBaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So, if you had darksteel forge out, this would be indestructible and becomes "Flip the card until you run out of mana."
Good times.
Anzu-chan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@TheWrathofShane : Because this card requires manual dexterity, like Falling Star.
nsweet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is so bizarre and unique 5/5 for being so awesome!
Ibn_Shisha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would pay money to see Stainless's reaction if WotC told them they wanted this in the next DotP.
Would be a cool unlockable if they ported to the Wii, though...
Lord_of_phyrexia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
prototype portal using pillows as tokens MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TreeCutterDoug
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I run a well played, signed alpha orb in my 5color edh deck. I do not abuse it, recur it, or in any way make a big stink... although it has shut down a game, with the stink that another player made about it. Upon casting the orb, I ask my opponents in this wonderfully casual format, if I may play it as it reads, and possibly destroy nothing, or play it as a colorless vindicate.
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I still have the shredded pieces left from the last time I used one. I heard about the guy who did it and couldn't resist, so I tried, and it worked, and now that it's worth a crap load of cash, I have a reminder not to do that again.
you probably ripped up a chaos confetti, not a chaos orb. if you did rip up a chaos orb, not only did you destroy an 80 dollar card, but you played it illegally and without reading it.
@ Arachibutyrophobia: there is also Falling Star. Both are now banned in all formats. Remember this goes back to Alpha, when the rules and tropes of Magic weren't well-defined yet.
People actually did rip up their Chaos Orbs in order to hit as many targets as possible, this was sanctioned in tournaments. This was a long time ago when Chaos Orb wasn't that valuable, and when people didn't estimate that the value of these cards would go up so dramatically.
It wasn't due to specifically one person, but rumors in general about this going around was what led Wizard to create the unglued card Chaos Confetti.
The first time i played with someone always went the same;
Game 1 - Chaos orb, activate it, *flip* destroy 4 lands, 2 creatures, 1 artifact...game over
Game 2 - Chaos orb, activate it, *flip* destroy 1 creature because all his cards in play are on top of glasses, under tables, on windowsills,
taped to counters(no lie). I became good at landing it on top of cards in the most ridiculous of places
...good times
...and then I showed to a tournament where the *restricted* list first came down, my entire deck was gutted, no more good times with the Chaos Orb :(
I love this card so much because of the power(duh), art (Tedin ftw) and especially the flavor. IT'S A BIG ROLLING FACEBALL OF DESTRUCTION!
-1 for difficulty in judging.
Also, it DROOLS LAVA.
WE'RE PLAYING CASUAL! *flips card into the air*
And it's kind of funny, in the video game, you have 3 days until the moon dropped. In Magic, you have 3 turns (unless you ramped) until the orb activates. :D
So put your Chaos Orb deck in REALLY BIG SLEEVES!
(6): Hit your opponent with a pillow. Every turn. And it uses no Un-cards
Whoa - does that mean i cant punch them in the face if they play that card? Big let down :(
But seriously - hilarious card, in so many ways
"yo, boy- I gots ya a card. A card that can wreck a whole buncha cards!"
So I open it up and see this banned sh*t, and I'm like
"B*tch, don't you know this all banned by the DCI and sh*t? It's not a part of this system!"
I THREW IT ON THE GROUND.
The ground was then destroyed, as was Chaos Orb.
Use top loaders as sleeves.
Also, instead of tearing it up, just tear pieces off the edges so you still have enough of the card that your opponent can't get you disqualified for being a card down.
2 things. After a bit of practice my form was to hold the card by the side using my thumb and index finger. Then simply release my thumb and let the card flop, worked like a charm EVERY single time.
And i sold all the card in my collection, and i don't even want to speculate how much they would be worth today, i know a huge amount. But i have no regrets really, but the one card i do regret not keeping is one Chaos Orb i owned which i had signed by Mark Tedin at a convention in Seattle. i asked him if he could not only sign it, but add a cartoonish caption above the artwork with the words "Bleeeeaaahhh", just as if you could hear the beast vomiting lava. He looked at me kind of funny at first, but he was totally cool, and signed it like that, and we both got a good laugh at the notion. Yah i wish i would have kept that one...
Just imprint this onto Prototype Portal to make your exploding pillow tokens.
That is
Good times.
Would be a cool unlockable if they ported to the Wii, though...