TheMagicManSam try playing knowledge pool and imprinting goblin game into it :P or knowledge pool and eye of the storm pretty dumb combo if knowledge pool has instants or sorcery's imprinted
TheMagicManSam My friends and I once played a game of magic where Possibility Storm began in play at the beginning. It was an incredibly weird, fun, and confusing game of magic.
Norin is good for that especially playing casual: add chaos card like confusion in the ranks, Grip of chaos, thieves audition, posibility storm, warp world, knowledge pool, if I was able to Worldfire, Winter orb, Scrambleverse, blood moon, heat stroke, price of glory, Wild evocation, decree of anihilation, jokulhaups, static orb, time shifter and goblin game? heck yeah I did that in EDH casual and the game lasted 2 hours and didnt end because everyone had to go. The second game I milled myself in 3 hours and even 4 sooo yeah Norin chaos is awesome
I once played a game where someone played shahrazad.... the another one......then another one. a game with in a game within a game within a game of magic..... took 7 hours....
For me, Chaos Orb is the biggest omission, that in retrospect, I would have put on the list. The problem is that it only messes with permanents it touches. Not very..."sweeping" if you know what I mean.
+TheManaSource What I was most surprised about was that there were no mention of Eye of the Storm at all. I personally think it s way more chaotic than Knowledge Pool and I think it should be on this list. Nice video in either case! :)
Honorable mention for Timesifter. This thing is nuts in multiplayer. You get an extra turn, you get an extra turn, everybody gets an extra turn!! You'll be saying "whos turn it is?" a lot!
Chaos orb should be in another list. Top 10 weird mechanics in magic. Rolling dice and fliping coins are for the weak. Let's flip cards and force people to buy you drinks
I have used Goblin Game before, but we simplified it - we all took a pencil and a piece of paper, everyone wrote a number on it, then all revealed. When played that way, it makes it a usable card for casual tabletop Magic.
No Chaos Orb/Falling Star? I mean, when your card is so stupidly random that it's not only banned everywhere, but it had to be officially ruled that, and I quote, "It must flip like a coin and not like a Frisbee.", you know you made one hell of a chaotic card.
+Mani Yes it is random, but if you are skilled enough with Chaos Orb, you can pretty much target anything you want, even more than one card, making it the cheapest universal removal spell.. Actually, some players even paid close attention not to put their cards close together to avoid getting blown out by Chaos Orb.
+FiboSai "Actually, some players even paid close attention not to put their cards close together to avoid getting blown out by Chaos Orb." If anything, that contributes to it's awesome weirdness in my opinion :D
+enkor2113 Well, possibility storm is crazy, but it doesn't stop certain decks. Decks that don't rely on single target or specific cards can both benefit from it. It does give each player the opportunity to see their opponent's deck for a bit too.
There's a story that goes around in our FLGS of the early games of commander (and it's a true story FYI, I spoke to the guy that did it myself). Basically, this was the first commander tournament at the shop since commander was designed as a format, and it was a point-based system. People got points for being the last man standing, for knocking people out, etc, and everyone got a point to hand to someone they played against each round for being awesome or showing good sportsmanship, or pulling off a ridiculous combo etc. Now, there were also some tournament-wide specials, like the person who did the most damage in a single turn, and that's the relevant category here. At one point during the tournament one person managed a thousand or ten-thousand damage combo on someone so he was the main contender. That was until one guy played goblin games when he realised there was no way he'd win that round. To avoid the hassle of hiding objects, the players and judges agreed for them to just write down a number. He wrote down five billion, instantly killing himself, getting ALL the sympathy points from the other players for doing something crazy, and simultaneously getting the most damage done to someone in a single turn, since it didn't specify it had to be dealt to opponents.
I build a five color chaos EDH deck and I have to say it's fun to research chaos cards and different combos you can do with them. I currently change my deck to Chaos/Group hug. Some cards I run that didn't make your cut are: Endless Whispers (one of my personal favorite EDH cards), Fight or Flight, Impulsive Maneuvers (good luck tokens decks), and Teferi's Puzzle Box.
+MemeDragon Beware how hard you are going to weird your friends with it. My friend build a chaos EDH deck with more than the whole list shown here and games are getting pretty frustrating. Imagine Knowlege Pool, Possibility Storm and Hive Mind on the field and dare to play something. The stack just became a pile of crazyness waiting to resolve. Sure, at first it is funny. But you dont play many games like this with joy :D
Hülzen von Spackingen It's too late, there's no going back. I found a combo with Blood Moon and this card called Shimmer that makes most of the table's lands gain phasing, which means every other turn they don't exist.
I honestly think Shahrazad is way more chaotic than Goblin Game. If you take into account that Shahrazad is banned in everything, sure, but otherwise, it seems way crazier.
TheManaSource I would say making games last hours is pretty chaotic, just in a different way than Goblin Game or Impending Disaster, for example. In addition, you have to find a different table to play, etc.
+TheManaSource Let's see if you say that after playing a single game where both players are running a play set. I tried proxy playing this once where the only rule was you have to include 4 copies in your deck. It's pretty much impossible to keep track of and finish even a single game. You end up playing a game inside a Shaharazad inside a Shahrazad inside a Shahrazad inside a Shahrazed, each iteration determining who loses the half their life in the iteration before it. Once it all resolves all you have done is determined who loses the life in the final iteration. Then you finally get back to playing the original game and somebody plays it again!!! So then you play game within a game within a game within a game within a game for half the remaining life again!!! We only made it to around the 10th game within a game and we weren't even close to finishing the original match when we just gave up and bought some beer with the ten bucks.
+Michael Dole A couple of weeks ago I put Goblin Game in my commander deck and played with it at commander night at my game store. I happened to draw it, so I played it. Everyone's like "what the hell is that?" the judge was like "fuck, someone did it."
Another great card is eye of the storm. It basically makes it so that anytime anyone casts an instant or sorcery, they can also cast any instant or sorcery that has beem played since Eye of the storm came into play. You can put goblin game and scramble verse on it for good times. Eventually it ends up being that you cast lightning bolt, then you cast brainsorm, swords to plowshares, ad nauseum, wrath of god, goblin game, and rampant growth.
I've been wanting to build an EDH deck, where everything is random, for a long time, and you just handed me my deck list. I knew a few of them, but others are downright unfairly absurd. Thanks Wedge.
Thanks Wedge! You've just inspired me to make a chaos themed modern deck! I can already tell it's going to be a lot of fun, and that will be the entire idea of the deck: Fun.
Used to love playing Sharazad + Fork and other shenanigans that relied on the other player tilting and conceding, if only I had things like eye of the storm and hive mind back in those days,
You basically make a inception style subgame inside a subgame inside a subgame...etc that forces a draw or pisses off the other person so that they quit. You're not trying to win any of the subgames just create another subgame before you lose the current subgame and forks etc made it so they had to kill you more times before getting back to the real game and then they'd have to kill you before you started doing more subgames
+Robert Anderson Not to mention Hive Mind, Risky Move, Game of Chaos and Pyxis of Pandemonium, I'm not saying they all should be in just wondering if they were ever thought of Also Raging River is such a freaking weird card, I put it in all of my red EDH decks just because of the looks people get on their faces when they read it
+Robert Anderson I actually run Eye of the Storm in my Talrand deck, but not for the lulz, but because it's a crazy powerful card in that deck. Note that you CAST the copies of the exiled cards, thus triggering talrand and/or Sphinkx-bone wand! If you have eye of the storm without exiled cards and the wand without counters, you only need to cast 3 spells to dish out 45 damage! 4 spells is already over 100...
I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS VIDEO!!!!!! I have a U/R deck that plays Confusion In The Ranks. That card derails so many people's decks. I combine it with Conjured Currency and Hive Mind for just so much lulz. Keep up the great videos
Eye of the Storm is a card I picked up the other day: 5UUEnchantment: Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery card, exile it. Then that player copies each instant or sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm. For each copy, the player may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
I have a deck box full of dice and counters etc this would be ingenious dump them in my pocket then empty my pocket on the table bam! Then a pocket full of change in addition lol
coolest thing about thieves auction is the cards enter the battlefield as you pick them letting you do crazy stuff with creature fall or land fall triggers
Great idea for a format. You and your friend both buy pre-constructed decks. you then have a third deck filled with all of these random chaotic cards. Every third or fourth turn of the game you reveal the top card of the third deck and that card goes into play.
Yami -chan but the whole point of the format would be the crazy things that the third deck would do for the game. The only way to make that happen is to make sure that both decks are on equal footing. If both players use precon decks then there is no way one deck could start out at a dis-advantage.
Don't get me wrong, I often draw for my 100% useless chaos Zeedru EDH :>. Here, have my Knowledge Pool. I DO have a big heart, don't I? A great one even Kapparino
+Lethal Pigeon I used to play a mono red chaos deck. It was great, and effectively took the power from the power players. More often than not, I died first, but not before I put a dent in their ho-hum strats.
I hate control decks more then I dislike chaos decks, simply because it sucks to have everything constantly returned to your hands. At least when your opponent is using a chaos deck you can still play, somewhat. Well, ok if they've tossed out all your manna that can be annoying af. LOL
Impending disaster is in my Pete Venters Mardu deck. Also I have always wanted to play Goblin Game in a super serious match. Final thing the Richard Garfield life cards (Proposal, Splendid Genesis, and Fraternal Exaltation) are all crazy in my opinion.
I am so glad you mentioned Goblin Game. The moment I saw it was legal in eternal formats, I, too, wanted to see someone use it at a tournament. Imagine the commentary!
Impending Disaster is my favorite thing in Commander when I have a fair number of Slivers in play, including Gemhide/Manaweft Sliver. And the dream is to pop it out on the turn before yours with a hideaway land.
Had a 7 player commander game where possibility storm, grip of chaos and time sifter were all in play at once, literally everything was determined randomly, it was glorious.
Shahrazad wasn't banned in Commander as early as 2014, and I had it in a commander deck with Hivemind, because I'm a horrible person. It has now been banned, and I am sad. Additional chaotic cards that weren't mentioned here are Shared Fate, and Eye of the Storm.
I really loved Urza's Destiny because it had some amazing anti-card spells: "search the controller's graveyard, hand and library for all copies of that card & remove them from the game." I know now this is called "exile" but they're still pretty amazing. When I used to play, there weren't any cards to get "exiled" cards back. ;-) Blue: Quash (anti-spell) Black: Eradicate (anti-creature) Red: Sowing Salt (anti-non-basic Land) White: Scour (anti-enchantment) Green: Splinter (anti-artifact)
God I love Red, Thieves Auction may be my favorite card ever. Not only is it a fantastic backup plan when things head south, but in large multiplayer games its just nuts. The first time I ever cast it was in a 8 player Highlander game and everyone was in shock.
I personally love possibility storm. my brothers and I even made a format that has possibility storm's ability always active. it's pure, sweet, hilarious chaos.
Not a single card, like most of what is mentioned on this list but, I play "Hive Mind" combo-ed with "Eternal Dominion" in my commander. Every time I pull this off, the game goes into a hilarious state. Gotta love epic cards with force copies.
Balance (white) is also crazy too. If you are totally outnumbering your opponent, have more cards and more lands.. bam.. you're now both "equal". Works very well!
We have a cube with most of these cards, and a special rule for Goblin Game. You may only hide one of a specific item/type of item. Makes everything way crazier.
You could also use Possibility Storm with Arcane Laboratory or Rule of Law to completely lock the game, after you played a setup that still lets you put cards into play. Hilarious. I'd also put Puca's Mischief on this list, which is switching nonland permanents (sadly, a "may" ability) between players each turn.
There was this one card that changed the target of every spell at random, a lot like grip of chaos, but I’m pretty sure it was a colorless artifact. I remember we were playing a casual 4 person game and someone used it. After that no one had any clue what was happening.
Some blue cards you missed: Eye of the Storm, Zur's Weirding, and Shared Fate and Psychic Battle. Eye turns the game into a stack race. Literally, have fun organizing the stack and all the resolutions. Zur's and Shared, while they don't work together in the best way, independently they are both really silly blue cards. Zur's Weirding requires players to play with their hands revealed AND all draws are revealed, and any player may pay 2 life to stop you from drawing that card. Meanwhile Shared Fate makes you play an opponents deck by exiling the top card of their library face down, you can play those face down exiled card as though they were in your hand. With the new color production rulings, Gold lands are amazing! Psychic Battle plays on the target game. Whenever a spell targets something, anything, each player reveals the top card of their library, the highest cmc spell wins and chooses targets. Finally, two more suggestions that should have been on the list, one red enchantment, another an artifact. Wild Evocation: This 6 drop makes players play cards randomly from their hand during their upkeep. If you flip a land, it is put into play, talk about red ramp. If it's a spell, they cast it without paying its mana cost, if able. This is not a may. Lastly: Omen machine. Kind of like Wild Evocation on steroids. For the same 6 mana (of any color), players can no longer draw cards at all. Instead during each players draw step, they exile the top card of their library, if they exiled a land, they have to put it on the battlefield, if they exile a spell, they cast it, if able. Again, not a may ability. Some of these cards work in insane ways together. For example, Omen Machine gets around Possibility Storm as the card isn't cast from your hand. Shared Fate and Zur's Weirding work together in a sorts, making players play with their hands revealed and the other stuff. Omen Machine and and Necropotence work wonders together too.
Warp World was even better pre-M10 rules, where you owned tokens an effect you own put on the battlefield, even if they entered the battlefield under your opponent's control. So when you gave your opponent a Spirit token with Forbidden Orchard, it upped your permanents owned count for Warp World!
Thieves auction is usually the point where I leave commander rounds, even though I play a lot of the other chaos stuff in my fun deck. But Thieves auction just lets you sit around the table for half an hour not actually playing the game. Chaotic at first glance, but when you actually have to play it out, it bores the crap out of me. I didn't know about Scrambleverse, but that goes the same way.
MOAR!!! I have an izzet commander deck featuring every legal card in this list minus the land destroying one (I'd love to have my deck featured in a deck tech *nudge* *nudge*). Imagine having goblin game resolve while Eye of the Storm is out. Hijynx galore!
Shahrazad might be the most chaotic (or one of) in the game, it also is one of the most flavorful. The girl's goal was to buy time by telling stories to the king who was about to kill her. She told so many stories (1001 to be precise) and that's how the 1001 nights were born, from which we got Aladdin, Ali Baba and many others. Card is weird, but it might also be my all-time favorite.
I remember a Commander game where one of my opponents cast Whims of Fate, and copied it twice, at the end of it he was the only one who had any permanents left. In another game an opponents cast Goblin Game and another of my opponents took apart their watch to get more items to hide.
I had a red white and blue commander deck entirely based upon grip of chaos and contained all the enchantment search I could find. The commander was Ruhan, so my attacks were random, and it contained such beautiful cards as confusion in the ranks, pandemonium, eye of the storm, some targeted exile spells, etc. and my whole strategy was to search for my enchantments and let the rest of the game be decided by the dice... IT WAS A GLORIOUS DECK All time best experience: Friend plays a massive Mycoloth to try and capitalize on the bullshit, the ETB trigger from pandemonium ends up targeting him for lethal
Funny story, I played Possibility Storm in a Commander game once. I played Edric, Spymaster of Trest and Possibility Stormed into a Worldspine Wurm!! It was awesome!
A Friend and I used to play a format called Possibility Storm. The rules are simple. All throughout the game Possibility Storm is active, but with one thing added to the chaos. It affects Lands. Any and all games of Possibility Storm turn into cackling madness.
I made a shahrazad deck once. I just played a bunch of things to copy it. you know, twin cast, reverberate and all that stuff along with some snapcasters and stuff to get it back out of the grave to play again. oh and a bunch oif stuff to slow games to a crawl like stasis, winter orb, and icy manipulator.
Someone played goblin game at a commander tournament I was at. That was nuts, I was mana screwed so I threw myself infront of the bullet to go to 18 only to draw out of the mana problem and almost have a chance later.
I run 4x Goblin Game, 4x Battle of Wits, 4x Master of Predicaments and 4x Liar's Pendulum in a deck just because these Mini-games inside a game make it so much fun. Just need 4x Game of Chaos or a coin flip based deck in general.
Whim of the Fates was dropped turn 5 in a 9 player EDH game I was a part of. 3 people scooped because they took the 50/50 on losing everything or losing nothing (mana was all they had played so far). New rule at our local spot: "No Whim of the Fates" in EDH allowed.
Here's a staple from my cube: Eye of the Storm 5UU Enchantment Whenever a player plays an instant or sorcery card, Remove it from the game. Then that player copies each instant or sorcery card removed from the game with Eye of the Storm. For each copy, the player may play the copy without paying its mana cost.
Possibility Storm is probably my favorite of these cards since it isn't a complete logistical nightmare. It's hilarious with Ruric Thar on board. Also a way to make Tibalt actually useful. Pay RR and flip him into any Planeswalker that isn't Tibalt. VALUE.
This inspires me to make a Boros Chaos deck with playsets of all of the Chaotic MtG cards. Plus, can you do a series on these like the Worst Ever series???????
I play almost all these in my EDH (Zedruu the Greathearted is perfect for it). Holy Jebus it is chaotic fun. The point of the deck was to thwart people who take commander too seriously by just breaking the game. But I have to say, hands down the most chaotic gamebreaking cards that I play are: Shared Fate. You basically have to draw off other player's libraries. Timesifter. Turn order is decided by who reveals the highest mana cost card on top of the library. Other mentions... Eye of the Storm - seriously wtf Psychic Battle Hive Mind Impulsive Maneuvers Jinxed Choker - this card is so much fun in EDH. Dimensional Breach - watch people agonise over which cards to put back in. Gate to Aether Teferi's Puzzle Box Risky Move
I´m glad I own at least a couple of those cards here, Knowledge pool, goblin game, thieves´auction, grip of chaos... Never used them but I want to build a funny deck with a bunch of these in at some point ,just for fun.
I feel that the great aurora is an honorable mention. I know that it is very similar to warp world but it only puts lands into play and each player draws cards equal to how many permanents and cards in their hand they had to shuffle in. I know that I had it happen to and I drew 12 cards and only got three lands. it was a little bonkers since my opponent who played it got 24 cards and 18 of them were lands that he dropped ( this was in EDH)
Ok Norin EDH with chaos card like confusion in the ranks, Grip of chaos, thieves audition, posibility storm, warp world, knowledge pool, if I was able to Worldfire, Winter orb, Scrambleverse, blood moon, heat stroke, price of glory, Wild evocation, decree of anihilation, jokulhaups, static orb, time shifter and goblin game? heck yeah I did that in EDH casual and the game lasted 2 hours and didnt end because everyone had to go. The second game I milled myself in 3 hours and even 4 sooo yeah Norin chaos is awesome
add bearer of the heavens, kill switch, and wild evocation with norin, besides if there is a sorin markov, Just mindslaver him and 1/4 of a chance to make your life total 10. also, there is radiate so if you dont have possibility storm or have a sensei and saw it, play it against destry target creature and destry every creature but norin. Then add insurrction, Impending disaster, twist alliance, and other artifacts or enchantments and you have madness
I witnessed a Shahrazad game within a Shahrazad game.
thats absokutely ridiculous! and was that game in a dungeon lair game?
BrotherAlpha I witnessed a Shahrazad game within a Shahrazad game and that one was reset with Karn Liberated
+BrotherAlpha someone in my LGS made a deck to just loop shahrazad over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
IamSnippe mine was an EDH game and we had All the Chaos in it
BrotherAlpha O.O
Me in the store: you guys have goblin game?
Guy behind the counter: what's wrong with you?
Possibility Storm is the most fun Magic card ever printed.
you can quote me on that.
+TheMagicManSam scratch that. Goblin Game. forever.
tou-freaking-ché, Wedge.
It is my favorite card. Beside Jaya Ballard.
TheMagicManSam try playing knowledge pool and imprinting goblin game into it :P
or knowledge pool and eye of the storm pretty dumb combo if knowledge pool has instants or sorcery's imprinted
TheMagicManSam My friends and I once played a game of magic where Possibility Storm began in play at the beginning. It was an incredibly weird, fun, and confusing game of magic.
+TheMagicManSam The more possibility storms the crazier :D
I'M BUILDING MONO RED CHAOS AND THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN STOP ME!
Live the dream!
Norin is good for that especially playing casual:
add chaos card like confusion in the ranks, Grip of chaos, thieves audition, posibility storm, warp world, knowledge pool, if I was able to Worldfire, Winter orb, Scrambleverse, blood moon, heat stroke, price of glory, Wild evocation, decree of anihilation, jokulhaups, static orb, time shifter and goblin game? heck yeah I did that in EDH casual and the game lasted 2 hours and didnt end because everyone had to go. The second game I milled myself in 3 hours and even 4 sooo yeah Norin chaos is awesome
PigInATuxedo Code 2319! Stop him!
PigInATuxedo why not izzet chaos then you have access to eye of the storm and hive mind
After 2 Years, I demand a Decklist!
As a red MTG player, I must admit. Worldfire is beautiful.
Edit: Fixed a misspell.
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I once played a game where someone played shahrazad.... the another one......then another one. a game with in a game within a game within a game of magic..... took 7 hours....
the opponent's fault for not bringing a mono red deck and simply smashing the other guy's face.
4 shaharazad and 4 enter the dungeon. Have fun
My new goal in life is to play Goblin Game and hide a person
+Richard Suplee Can you hide yourself?
If you got a way to reveal yourself and everything else. I am now imagining two magicians just going nuts with the card
lol XD
+Richard Suplee "Revealing yourself & going nuts." Sounds like someone is getting charged with public indecency.
@@coreysierchio4650 sounds like a casual saturday to me
For me, Chaos Orb is the biggest omission, that in retrospect, I would have put on the list. The problem is that it only messes with permanents it touches. Not very..."sweeping" if you know what I mean.
Mike L No "un" cards.
TheManaSource What about Eye of the Storm?
+TheManaSource What I was most surprised about was that there were no mention of Eye of the Storm at all. I personally think it s way more chaotic than Knowledge Pool and I think it should be on this list. Nice video in either case! :)
Honorable mention for Timesifter. This thing is nuts in multiplayer. You get an extra turn, you get an extra turn, everybody gets an extra turn!! You'll be saying "whos turn it is?" a lot!
Chaos orb should be in another list. Top 10 weird mechanics in magic. Rolling dice and fliping coins are for the weak. Let's flip cards and force people to buy you drinks
I have used Goblin Game before, but we simplified it - we all took a pencil and a piece of paper, everyone wrote a number on it, then all revealed. When played that way, it makes it a usable card for casual tabletop Magic.
No Chaos Orb/Falling Star?
I mean, when your card is so stupidly random that it's not only banned everywhere, but it had to be officially ruled that, and I quote, "It must flip like a coin and not like a Frisbee.", you know you made one hell of a chaotic card.
+Mani Yes it is random, but if you are skilled enough with Chaos Orb, you can pretty much target anything you want, even more than one card, making it the cheapest universal removal spell.. Actually, some players even paid close attention not to put their cards close together to avoid getting blown out by Chaos Orb.
+FiboSai "Actually, some players even paid close attention not to put their cards close together to avoid getting blown out by Chaos Orb." If anything, that contributes to it's awesome weirdness in my opinion :D
Alt. Title: "How to lose all your friends in 10 cards or less"
+enkor2113 Well, possibility storm is crazy, but it doesn't stop certain decks. Decks that don't rely on single target or specific cards can both benefit from it. It does give each player the opportunity to see their opponent's deck for a bit too.
enkor2113 That is a great title xD
***** lol
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There's a story that goes around in our FLGS of the early games of commander (and it's a true story FYI, I spoke to the guy that did it myself).
Basically, this was the first commander tournament at the shop since commander was designed as a format, and it was a point-based system. People got points for being the last man standing, for knocking people out, etc, and everyone got a point to hand to someone they played against each round for being awesome or showing good sportsmanship, or pulling off a ridiculous combo etc.
Now, there were also some tournament-wide specials, like the person who did the most damage in a single turn, and that's the relevant category here. At one point during the tournament one person managed a thousand or ten-thousand damage combo on someone so he was the main contender. That was until one guy played goblin games when he realised there was no way he'd win that round. To avoid the hassle of hiding objects, the players and judges agreed for them to just write down a number. He wrote down five billion, instantly killing himself, getting ALL the sympathy points from the other players for doing something crazy, and simultaneously getting the most damage done to someone in a single turn, since it didn't specify it had to be dealt to opponents.
Hahahaha that's awesome
This player is too cool for this game and deserves all of the kudos.
I build a five color chaos EDH deck and I have to say it's fun to research chaos cards and different combos you can do with them. I currently change my deck to Chaos/Group hug. Some cards I run that didn't make your cut are: Endless Whispers (one of my personal favorite EDH cards), Fight or Flight, Impulsive Maneuvers (good luck tokens decks), and Teferi's Puzzle Box.
I'm going to make a chaos deck now just so I can play Goblin Game.
+MemeDragon Beware how hard you are going to weird your friends with it. My friend build a chaos EDH deck with more than the whole list shown here and games are getting pretty frustrating. Imagine Knowlege Pool, Possibility Storm and Hive Mind on the field and dare to play something. The stack just became a pile of crazyness waiting to resolve. Sure, at first it is funny. But you dont play many games like this with joy :D
+Hülzen von Spackingen lmfao some of these cards with hive mind... jesus christ.
Hülzen von Spackingen It's too late, there's no going back. I found a combo with Blood Moon and this card called Shimmer that makes most of the table's lands gain phasing, which means every other turn they don't exist.
+Hülzen von Spackingen Change out possibility storm with eye of the storm and you have a deal.
+MemeDragon make it red green so you can cast Goblin Game faster
New life goal: cast Goblin Game during a feature match.
I kind of want to make a Red Chaos deck for commander now.
I love Wind of Change. Great for a commander 1 drop. I have never seen tables flip so fast.
I honestly think Shahrazad is way more chaotic than Goblin Game. If you take into account that Shahrazad is banned in everything, sure, but otherwise, it seems way crazier.
+Oliver Wolf Its banned because it makes games last hours, not because its chaotic ya know?
TheManaSource I would say making games last hours is pretty chaotic, just in a different way than Goblin Game or Impending Disaster, for example. In addition, you have to find a different table to play, etc.
+Oliver Wolf i'd just carry a backpack full of beads, lol. makes goblin game best card.
+TheManaSource
Let's see if you say that after playing a single game where both players are running a play set. I tried proxy playing this once where the only rule was you have to include 4 copies in your deck. It's pretty much impossible to keep track of and finish even a single game. You end up playing a game inside a Shaharazad inside a Shahrazad inside a Shahrazad inside a Shahrazed, each iteration determining who loses the half their life in the iteration before it. Once it all resolves all you have done is determined who loses the life in the final iteration. Then you finally get back to playing the original game and somebody plays it again!!! So then you play game within a game within a game within a game within a game for half the remaining life again!!! We only made it to around the 10th game within a game and we weren't even close to finishing the original match when we just gave up and bought some beer with the ten bucks.
+Michael Dole A couple of weeks ago I put Goblin Game in my commander deck and played with it at commander night at my game store. I happened to draw it, so I played it. Everyone's like "what the hell is that?" the judge was like "fuck, someone did it."
Wait, did you say Goblin Game wasn't banned.
Craving Collectables i run it in my chaotic rbw deck, and boy does it cause a scramble every time it hits
I wholeheartedly believe that Eye of the Storm should be on this list. I've seen some games go to absolute hell with this card.
I was about to comment Eye of the Storm. I once made one of my roommates scream in pain at the sight of it resolving.
One of my favorite chaotic cards is Terferi's Puzzle Box.
Another great card is eye of the storm. It basically makes it so that anytime anyone casts an instant or sorcery, they can also cast any instant or sorcery that has beem played since Eye of the storm came into play. You can put goblin game and scramble verse on it for good times. Eventually it ends up being that you cast lightning bolt, then you cast brainsorm, swords to plowshares, ad nauseum, wrath of god, goblin game, and rampant growth.
These cards are the reason I love MtG.
I've been wanting to build an EDH deck, where everything is random, for a long time, and you just handed me my deck list. I knew a few of them, but others are downright unfairly absurd. Thanks Wedge.
Thanks for the Commander deck tech! :)
Thanks Wedge! You've just inspired me to make a chaos themed modern deck!
I can already tell it's going to be a lot of fun, and that will be the entire idea of the deck: Fun.
I was expecting CHAOS ORB to be on this list.
Used to love playing Sharazad + Fork and other shenanigans that relied on the other player tilting and conceding, if only I had things like eye of the storm and hive mind back in those days,
How does that even work ?
You basically make a inception style subgame inside a subgame inside a subgame...etc that forces a draw or pisses off the other person so that they quit. You're not trying to win any of the subgames just create another subgame before you lose the current subgame and forks etc made it so they had to kill you more times before getting back to the real game and then they'd have to kill you before you started doing more subgames
No mention of Hive Mind?
Just imagine a multiplayer game with Hive Mind (or two!) on the board, and any of the sorceries mentioned in the video.
Wedge, you should make a video explaining what the Power 9 is to new players and why they're considered so powerful
yes, i am so tired of explaining why black lotus is broken
no eye of the storm? that in a multi game with burn and cancel decks gets pretty crazy, especially with possibility storm
+Robert Anderson Great addition!
+Robert Anderson Not to mention Hive Mind, Risky Move, Game of Chaos and Pyxis of Pandemonium, I'm not saying they all should be in just wondering if they were ever thought of
Also Raging River is such a freaking weird card, I put it in all of my red EDH decks just because of the looks people get on their faces when they read it
+Robert Anderson I actually run Eye of the Storm in my Talrand deck, but not for the lulz, but because it's a crazy powerful card in that deck. Note that you CAST the copies of the exiled cards, thus triggering talrand and/or Sphinkx-bone wand! If you have eye of the storm without exiled cards and the wand without counters, you only need to cast 3 spells to dish out 45 damage! 4 spells is already over 100...
I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS VIDEO!!!!!! I have a U/R deck that plays Confusion In The Ranks. That card derails so many people's decks. I combine it with Conjured Currency and Hive Mind for just so much lulz.
Keep up the great videos
If any of my friends ever play Goblin Games on me, I'm unfriending them for life.
Eye of the Storm is a card I picked up the other day: 5UUEnchantment: Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery card, exile it. Then that player copies each instant or sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm. For each copy, the player may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Goblin game I have a pocket full of pennies.
I have a deck box full of dice and counters etc this would be ingenious dump them in my pocket then empty my pocket on the table bam! Then a pocket full of change in addition lol
+TheManaSource keep being awesome Wedge!
AKA: the red-est list ever
coolest thing about thieves auction is the cards enter the battlefield as you pick them letting you do crazy stuff with creature fall or land fall triggers
So who's building that mono red chaos deck? Lol
mono red with a splash of white :D
Love it! Goblin Game is one of my favorite cards. Will always play it when drafting red out of my cube. Too much fun!
lol, tap krenko for 50 billion tokens. SCRAMBLEVERSE!!! :D
i wonder why i dont have friends...
Warp world makes more sense.
+Crimson Vulpes Then opponent plays worldfire
Great idea for a format. You and your friend both buy pre-constructed decks. you then have a third deck filled with all of these random chaotic cards. Every third or fourth turn of the game you reveal the top card of the third deck and that card goes into play.
Precons are boring tho.
Yami -chan but the whole point of the format would be the crazy things that the third deck would do for the game. The only way to make that happen is to make sure that both decks are on equal footing. If both players use precon decks then there is no way one deck could start out at a dis-advantage.
So.... Planechase? Planechase.
Isaac Kopstein If Wizards released a second Modern Event Deck, then use those? But even Clash Packs have too low a power level.
Deoflska is right. Your hypothetical format is just planechase. Look it up
This should be called "top 10 reasons people hate chaos decks".
Don't get me wrong, I often draw for my 100% useless chaos Zeedru EDH :>. Here, have my Knowledge Pool. I DO have a big heart, don't I? A great one even Kapparino
+Lethal Pigeon Thieve's Auction causes RL fights... It's also a really good argument for putting sleeves on your cards
+Lethal Pigeon I used to play a mono red chaos deck. It was great, and effectively took the power from the power players. More often than not, I died first, but not before I put a dent in their ho-hum strats.
I hate control decks more then I dislike chaos decks, simply because it sucks to have everything constantly returned to your hands. At least when your opponent is using a chaos deck you can still play, somewhat. Well, ok if they've tossed out all your manna that can be annoying af. LOL
Impending disaster is in my Pete Venters Mardu deck. Also I have always wanted to play Goblin Game in a super serious match. Final thing the Richard Garfield life cards (Proposal, Splendid Genesis, and Fraternal Exaltation) are all crazy in my opinion.
I am so glad you mentioned Goblin Game. The moment I saw it was legal in eternal formats, I, too, wanted to see someone use it at a tournament. Imagine the commentary!
Impending Disaster is my favorite thing in Commander when I have a fair number of Slivers in play, including Gemhide/Manaweft Sliver.
And the dream is to pop it out on the turn before yours with a hideaway land.
Had a 7 player commander game where possibility storm, grip of chaos and time sifter were all in play at once, literally everything was determined randomly, it was glorious.
Shahrazad wasn't banned in Commander as early as 2014, and I had it in a commander deck with Hivemind, because I'm a horrible person. It has now been banned, and I am sad. Additional chaotic cards that weren't mentioned here are Shared Fate, and Eye of the Storm.
You know what card gets you murdered instantly in multiplayer? Havoc Festival
Wild Evocation, Omen Machine, Eye of the Storm, Hive mind, Unexpected results, anything with Cascade
Kiefer Baker and Grip of Chaos protects itself randomly so Naturalize will have a hard time hitting it
omen machine when every dumps their hands and cant draw new cards is hilarious with a grip of chaos out.
I really loved Urza's Destiny because it had some amazing anti-card spells: "search the controller's graveyard, hand and library for all copies of that card & remove them from the game." I know now this is called "exile" but they're still pretty amazing. When I used to play, there weren't any cards to get "exiled" cards back. ;-)
Blue: Quash (anti-spell)
Black: Eradicate (anti-creature)
Red: Sowing Salt (anti-non-basic Land)
White: Scour (anti-enchantment)
Green: Splinter (anti-artifact)
God I love Red, Thieves Auction may be my favorite card ever. Not only is it a fantastic backup plan when things head south, but in large multiplayer games its just nuts.
The first time I ever cast it was in a 8 player Highlander game and everyone was in shock.
Here's The best part about Knowledge pool, the spell without CMC DONT HAVE TO BE YOURS :D
I personally love possibility storm. my brothers and I even made a format that has possibility storm's ability always active. it's pure, sweet, hilarious chaos.
Best EDH moment I played: Having 5 copies of Goblin Game on the stack, after fending off 2 counter spell, in mono-red. It was hilarious.
+TheManaSource I just wanted to tell you that your intro is awesome, I love it!
+ns Hmm my tagging function isn't working. Weird
Zur´s weirding is amazing especially the one that is pretty much an upskirt pic of Zur, haha.
Not a single card, like most of what is mentioned on this list but, I play "Hive Mind" combo-ed with "Eternal Dominion" in my commander. Every time I pull this off, the game goes into a hilarious state. Gotta love epic cards with force copies.
I'm so gonna make a casual deck with some of these cards.
Balance (white) is also crazy too. If you are totally outnumbering your opponent, have more cards and more lands.. bam.. you're now both "equal". Works very well!
We have a cube with most of these cards, and a special rule for Goblin Game. You may only hide one of a specific item/type of item. Makes everything way crazier.
I've total run most of these in a Grixis chaos EDH deck. I love these cards.
You could also use Possibility Storm with Arcane Laboratory or Rule of Law to completely lock the game, after you played a setup that still lets you put cards into play. Hilarious. I'd also put Puca's Mischief on this list, which is switching nonland permanents (sadly, a "may" ability) between players each turn.
There was this one card that changed the target of every spell at random, a lot like grip of chaos, but I’m pretty sure it was a colorless artifact. I remember we were playing a casual 4 person game and someone used it. After that no one had any clue what was happening.
Some blue cards you missed: Eye of the Storm, Zur's Weirding, and Shared Fate and Psychic Battle.
Eye turns the game into a stack race. Literally, have fun organizing the stack and all the resolutions.
Zur's and Shared, while they don't work together in the best way, independently they are both really silly blue cards. Zur's Weirding requires players to play with their hands revealed AND all draws are revealed, and any player may pay 2 life to stop you from drawing that card. Meanwhile Shared Fate makes you play an opponents deck by exiling the top card of their library face down, you can play those face down exiled card as though they were in your hand. With the new color production rulings, Gold lands are amazing! Psychic Battle plays on the target game. Whenever a spell targets something, anything, each player reveals the top card of their library, the highest cmc spell wins and chooses targets.
Finally, two more suggestions that should have been on the list, one red enchantment, another an artifact.
Wild Evocation: This 6 drop makes players play cards randomly from their hand during their upkeep. If you flip a land, it is put into play, talk about red ramp. If it's a spell, they cast it without paying its mana cost, if able. This is not a may.
Lastly: Omen machine. Kind of like Wild Evocation on steroids. For the same 6 mana (of any color), players can no longer draw cards at all. Instead during each players draw step, they exile the top card of their library, if they exiled a land, they have to put it on the battlefield, if they exile a spell, they cast it, if able. Again, not a may ability.
Some of these cards work in insane ways together. For example, Omen Machine gets around Possibility Storm as the card isn't cast from your hand. Shared Fate and Zur's Weirding work together in a sorts, making players play with their hands revealed and the other stuff. Omen Machine and and Necropotence work wonders together too.
Warp World was even better pre-M10 rules, where you owned tokens an effect you own put on the battlefield, even if they entered the battlefield under your opponent's control. So when you gave your opponent a Spirit token with Forbidden Orchard, it upped your permanents owned count for Warp World!
Knowledge Pool + Curse of Exhaustion. Enjoy your hardlock :D Also seeing Warp World when playing an allies deck is the best feeling ever
My EDH deck has Eye of the Storm in it.
That can get quite silly.
Thieves auction is usually the point where I leave commander rounds, even though I play a lot of the other chaos stuff in my fun deck. But Thieves auction just lets you sit around the table for half an hour not actually playing the game. Chaotic at first glance, but when you actually have to play it out, it bores the crap out of me. I didn't know about Scrambleverse, but that goes the same way.
MOAR!!! I have an izzet commander deck featuring every legal card in this list minus the land destroying one (I'd love to have my deck featured in a deck tech *nudge* *nudge*). Imagine having goblin game resolve while Eye of the Storm is out. Hijynx galore!
Shahrazad might be the most chaotic (or one of) in the game, it also is one of the most flavorful. The girl's goal was to buy time by telling stories to the king who was about to kill her. She told so many stories (1001 to be precise) and that's how the 1001 nights were born, from which we got Aladdin, Ali Baba and many others. Card is weird, but it might also be my all-time favorite.
I remember a Commander game where one of my opponents cast Whims of Fate, and copied it twice, at the end of it he was the only one who had any permanents left.
In another game an opponents cast Goblin Game and another of my opponents took apart their watch to get more items to hide.
I had a red white and blue commander deck entirely based upon grip of chaos and contained all the enchantment search I could find. The commander was Ruhan, so my attacks were random, and it contained such beautiful cards as confusion in the ranks, pandemonium, eye of the storm, some targeted exile spells, etc. and my whole strategy was to search for my enchantments and let the rest of the game be decided by the dice... IT WAS A GLORIOUS DECK
All time best experience: Friend plays a massive Mycoloth to try and capitalize on the bullshit, the ETB trigger from pandemonium ends up targeting him for lethal
Funny story, I played Possibility Storm in a Commander game once. I played Edric, Spymaster of Trest and Possibility Stormed into a Worldspine Wurm!! It was awesome!
A friend of mine played possibility storm too. I played 1 mana essence warden and got Terastodon (i didn't destroy possibilty storm with terastodon)
A Friend and I used to play a format called Possibility Storm.
The rules are simple.
All throughout the game Possibility Storm is active, but with one thing added to the chaos.
It affects Lands.
Any and all games of Possibility Storm turn into cackling madness.
Great top 10 Wedge! I mean it's no "worst cards ever printed" but still good!!!
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Once I played against this card in Commander. We were 6 people. This took way to long...
So what this video really is, is a review of my friend's Norin, the Wary deck. Good job haha I knew he was doing Norin right.
I made a shahrazad deck once. I just played a bunch of things to copy it. you know, twin cast, reverberate and all that stuff along with some snapcasters and stuff to get it back out of the grave to play again.
oh and a bunch oif stuff to slow games to a crawl like stasis, winter orb, and icy manipulator.
Confusion in the ranks+grip of chaos+possivility storm+Norin....
Someone played goblin game at a commander tournament I was at. That was nuts, I was mana screwed so I threw myself infront of the bullet to go to 18 only to draw out of the mana problem and almost have a chance later.
I run 4x Goblin Game, 4x Battle of Wits, 4x Master of Predicaments and 4x Liar's Pendulum in a deck just because these Mini-games inside a game make it so much fun. Just need 4x Game of Chaos or a coin flip based deck in general.
Whim of the Fates was dropped turn 5 in a 9 player EDH game I was a part of. 3 people scooped because they took the 50/50 on losing everything or losing nothing (mana was all they had played so far). New rule at our local spot: "No Whim of the Fates" in EDH allowed.
Here's a staple from my cube:
Eye of the Storm 5UU
Enchantment
Whenever a player plays an instant or sorcery card,
Remove it from the game. Then that player copies
each instant or sorcery card removed from the game with
Eye of the Storm. For each copy, the player may play the copy
without paying its mana cost.
Impending disaster works really well when most of your spells are 1 cost Goblins.
great. now I'm on a quest to build the boros chaos deck featuring Sharhazod, goblin game, and worldfire. There goes my week.
Possibility Storm is probably my favorite of these cards since it isn't a complete logistical nightmare. It's hilarious with Ruric Thar on board. Also a way to make Tibalt actually useful. Pay RR and flip him into any Planeswalker that isn't Tibalt. VALUE.
This inspires me to make a Boros Chaos deck with playsets of all of the Chaotic MtG cards.
Plus, can you do a series on these like the Worst Ever series???????
wow i did not think there was anything more insane than charazad but you certainly surprised me
I play almost all these in my EDH (Zedruu the Greathearted is perfect for it). Holy Jebus it is chaotic fun. The point of the deck was to thwart people who take commander too seriously by just breaking the game. But I have to say, hands down the most chaotic gamebreaking cards that I play are:
Shared Fate. You basically have to draw off other player's libraries.
Timesifter. Turn order is decided by who reveals the highest mana cost card on top of the library.
Other mentions...
Eye of the Storm - seriously wtf
Psychic Battle
Hive Mind
Impulsive Maneuvers
Jinxed Choker - this card is so much fun in EDH.
Dimensional Breach - watch people agonise over which cards to put back in.
Gate to Aether
Teferi's Puzzle Box
Risky Move
Love all your lists!
Axel icious AXEL I am going to make a r/b chaos deck and bring it to a legacy tournament MWAHHAHAAHHAHA CHAOS!!!
Awesome video! Just what I wanted while I was sick.
I´m glad I own at least a couple of those cards here, Knowledge pool, goblin game, thieves´auction, grip of chaos... Never used them but I want to build a funny deck with a bunch of these in at some point ,just for fun.
I was expecting Bearer Of the Heavens to be on here... 10/10 giant creature with "When bearer of the heavens dies, destroy all permenants"
A few years ago, I built a deck called "It's not unglued" entirely because I discovered Goblin Games. Love that card!
This video makes me want to make a narset deck based around all of these cards. That would be an interesting commander game.
nice videos bro, I spend some time at magic tg and its cool the see people also spend their time at the game, the same fun hobby.
I thought that'd be for sure an Eye of the Storm in there, but seems funny to try and build an EDH with some number of them
I feel that the great aurora is an honorable mention. I know that it is very similar to warp world but it only puts lands into play and each player draws cards equal to how many permanents and cards in their hand they had to shuffle in. I know that I had it happen to and I drew 12 cards and only got three lands. it was a little bonkers since my opponent who played it got 24 cards and 18 of them were lands that he dropped ( this was in EDH)
Ok Norin EDH with chaos card like confusion in the ranks, Grip of chaos, thieves audition, posibility storm, warp world, knowledge pool, if I was able to Worldfire, Winter orb, Scrambleverse, blood moon, heat stroke, price of glory, Wild evocation, decree of anihilation, jokulhaups, static orb, time shifter and goblin game? heck yeah I did that in EDH casual and the game lasted 2 hours and didnt end because everyone had to go. The second game I milled myself in 3 hours and even 4 sooo yeah Norin chaos is awesome
add bearer of the heavens, kill switch, and wild evocation with norin, besides if there is a sorin markov, Just mindslaver him and 1/4 of a chance to make your life total 10. also, there is radiate so if you dont have possibility storm or have a sensei and saw it, play it against destry target creature and destry every creature but norin. Then add insurrction, Impending disaster, twist alliance, and other artifacts or enchantments and you have madness