Total Chaos

[dandan]

Total Chaos

Shuffle all permanents in play that you own, all cards in your graveyard and all cards in hand together. Then randomly put X cards into play from this pile, where X is the number of permanents you had in play, then put Y cards into your graveyard, where Y is the number of cards you had in your graveyard. If a Sorcery or Instant would be put into play in this way, instead put it in your graveyard.

I would have preferred to make it permanents you control but I think Wizards are strongly against anything that could result in a card you don't own ending up in your hand and/or graveyard.

Turn 3, three mountains change into any of the 3 lands plus 6 cards you have in hand. Is a Mountain changing into a Dragon chaotic enough for you? Rather hard to cost something like this but I think RRR takes this away from dedicated combo and it a rather unreliable reanimation spell. Timmy loves doing this with 8 lands in play and a full graveyard and why the hell not?

[dandan]

Is this indifference or do you all really feel that the card is perfect? I rather expected a few 'Are you crazy?' type replies.

[Matt]

Isn't this just like that crazy red sorcery from Ravnica, at least in flavor?

[dandan]

Similar but Hand+graveyard+in play is a lot less random than In play+Library and so the chaos is much more likely to be 'controllable' and as such more likely to see play. This spell only affects you so the CC can be lower. As such it is as similar as Terror is to Wrath of God. I'd prefer to think of it as a chaotic Creature/Artifact/Enchantment accelerant than a reset button.

Turn 3 (going first), 3 lands in play, one dork in play, nothing yet in GY, cast Chaos, 4 cards in hand

50% chance of Creature, Artifact, Enchantment from your hand ending up in play, but likely stunted land development and dork development. Better chance if you have more permanents in play (see 'Win more').

That looks reasonable compared to Black's favoured method of re-animation. Probably not good enough to use in Dragon combo 
 

[dandan]

Back from the depths of Time in fine Time Spiral fashion, I'm starting the clock on this one.