Chaos Warp

Chaos Warp

Mana Cost: {2}{R}

Type: Instant

Oracle Text:
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.

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: rare

Prints: View all prints (1) →

Expansion: Fallout

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Character Background

Chaos Warp is red’s quintessential “chaos removal” — a tempo- and value-oriented answer that trades certainty for flexibility: you eliminate a problem permanent now and hand its owner a coin-flip chance to replace it. It shines in midrange and Commander shells where one-for-one answers and out-of-meta solutions matter most (also useful in combo decks that can tolerate variance). Play it against indestructible, hexproof, or otherwise untouchable threats and you often buy a turn or net a favorable swap. Deckbuilding tip: pair Chaos Warp with library-manipulation artifacts (Sensei’s Divining Top, Scroll Rack in blue splashes) or recursion engines so you can better engineer outcomes when you warp your own pieces, and include multiple generic answers so you aren’t punished by bad reveals. Thematically the card feels like ripping something into the multiverse and letting fate spit back whatever surfaces — a perfect fit for red decks that embrace risk and improvisation rather than symmetrical, deterministic answers.

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