Help me out please. I am building a cube based on chaos. I anticipate this will take some time to put a full draft together and much longer to truly finalize but I believe it will make for hilarious games for the team and whoever else.
So what am I looking for? Random, chaotic, and potentially detrimental effects. Cards like {tyrant of discord}, {goblin test pilot}, and {vexing devil} come to mind. I want the games to play out as though you have very little control over your own spells. {Dovescape} I am considering as well. I need 360 cards (25-40 of which are nonbasic land) in this theme. Feel free to also mention staples that wont overpower the format such as {path to exile}. I do not know if i will use said staples, but this list is to get a pool of cards to work from.
I am actually fairly new to magic by comparison to a lot of players and have only played standard and edh to great lengths so my over all knowlege of what cards exist is a small portion of what's out there.
{confusion in the ranks} is one of the most chaotic cards I know. You might also add {possibility storm} to make it even more outrageous
What would be a third card to put the combo over the top?
Hmmm. Let me see.
{Forsaken Wastes}
{Havoc Festival}
{Sulfuric Vortex}
{Timesifter}
I'm just throwing out random things
{Descent into Madness}
{Eye of the Storm}
{Shizuko, Caller of Autumn}
{Karona, False God}
Great suggestions! Keep them coming.
{chaos warp}
{naked singularity}
{reality twist}
{goblin game}
talked to Danny (android user so he doesn't post here)
{font of mythos}
{howling mine}
{wheel of fortune}
{reforge the soul}
{the rack}
{scambleverse}
{warp world}
{black vise}
{braids, conjurer adept}
{braids, cabal minion}
{Anvil of Bogardan}
{Burning Inquiry}
{Diminishing Returns}
{Flux}
{Jace's Archivist}
{Rites of Flourishing}
The join forces cycle.
Lots of chaos.
thank you double-O
{final fortune}
{abyssal persecutor}
{platinum angel}
also
{pact of negation}
{near death experience}
{ral zarek}
{stitch in time}
{slaughter pact}
{polymorph}
{mass polymorph}
{shape anew}
I'm trying to build a chaos-based EDH deck. Let me check my deck list for stuff that hasn't been mentioned so far.
{Grand Melee}
{Mana Barbs}
{Mannichi the Fevered Dream}
{Soul Conduit}
{Knowledge Pool}
{Mindslaver}
{Conjured Currency}
{Blood Moon}
{Grip of Chaos}
{Warp World}
{overabundance} is waaay better than {mana barbs} btw.
Quote from: Double-O-Scotch on August 18, 2013, 05:16:12 PM
{overabundance} is waaay better than {mana barbs} btw.
Only if you want to give other players more mana. I just want the pseudo-manaburn effect, so I stuck with barbs :P it's less helpful, more annoying!
Quote from: Gorzo on August 18, 2013, 05:22:53 PM
Quote from: Double-O-Scotch on August 18, 2013, 05:16:12 PM
{overabundance} is waaay better than {mana barbs} btw.
Only if you want to give other players more mana. I just want the pseudo-manaburn effect, so I stuck with barbs :P it's less helpful, more annoying!
i like them both
Please post the list for this cube when your finished.
Quote from: Kaleo42 on August 18, 2013, 05:53:13 PM
Quote from: FlickerYourOwnIdentity on August 18, 2013, 05:49:15 PM
Please post the list for this cube when your finished.
of course
Good! :)
How about cards like {Forbidden Orchard}. {Howling Mine} (may have been said). {Rites of Flourishing}, {Dash Hopes}, mabye some slivers? The old ones. That way if more people play them, all effects apply to all slivers. That being said, if you do that, {Hivestone}
{guild fued}?
Any card from planer chaos?
Suggestions from Joel, my greatest mtg mentor to date.
Here is what I found while looking through the two best decks for this(red and blue): {Teferi's puzzle box}, {temporal aperture}, {crooked scales}, {stuffy doll}, {Puca's mischief}, {juxtapose}, {psychic battle}, {goblin game}, {puppet's verdict}, {tide of war}, {wild evocation}, {Kaboom!}, {stand or fall}, {avatar of slaughter}.
These are good too: {steam vines}, {Necrotic Plague}, {Traveling plague}, {Screams from Within}, {Takklemaggot}(such a cool card!) and {Endless Whispers}. Drop of honey and porphyry nodes. Also, {spreading plague}, maybe {spreading algea}.
I don't think you will be able to make a color balanced cube that fits this(you will find very little white that fits well).
For black, you can have a heavy suite of hand destruction that discards at random(as opposed to reveal) like {Hymn to Tourach} and {hypnotic spectre}.
Cards with the keyword madness might be good too.
{Glyph of reincarnation} if you have enough walls(or you rule that the glyphs work on any creature and then just use them all).
If you want enchantments like {rancor}(ones that you can't get rid of), you should look through enchantments in Urza's block. There is also a cycle of them in time spiral(block?).
Also, do a gatherer search for "Any player may activate this ability", you will get a bunch of hits that will work well.
There is also a card that on your upkeep it gets a counter then destroys stuff that cost the number of counters it has on it. I think it costs five.
You also could make a planar deck that could add a whole lot more lack of control, especially if you require players to take their free roll.
{fuedkiller's verdict}, {survival cache}, {world queller}, keyword clash
{Thieve's Auction}, {Hellcarver Demon}, {Dimensional Breach}
And on top of it, make it Planeschase 😃
Kaleo, thank you and thank your friend for me. I'm pretty sure that last post gave me enough to finish making a complete deck list for my chaos EDH :)
Haha will do
{Possibility Storm}?
Cascade
{Bloodbraid Elf}
Stuff that has to attack every turn like
{Hellraiser Goblin}
I find that when a creature has to attack every turn it makes the game more interesting because it takes choice away from the player
Also stuff that uses dice or coins like
{Goblin Tutor}
{Goblin Rookie}
{Scoria Wurm}
{Elvis Impersonators}
{Tavern Swindler}
And lastly maybe hellbent stuff
{Gathan Raiders}
I almost forgot one of my absolute favorites!
{Karplusan Minotaur}
I'm also new to magic but a good card I think that would work well would be {worldfire}
{Burning Wish} could be a fun one
Quote from: Gorzo on August 20, 2013, 01:22:21 AM
I almost forgot one of my absolute favorites!
{Karplusan Minotaur}
Thats perfect! I need more random creatures
{Gamble}
Mabye we should find a type of chaos for each color!
Red would be {Confusion in the Ranks}, {Scambleverse}, and attack each turn type cards.
Blue would be {Hive Mind}, {Curse of Echos} {Mind Control} type cards.
White would be global effects like {Planar Cleansing}, {Balance}, type cards.
Green could be {Heartbeat of the Spring} type cards.
Black could be {Killing Wave}, {Necrotic Plague}, {Death Cloud}
And Lands could have interesting effects, man lands, {Contested War Zone}
Artifacts... I dunno.
Then we have {Novablast Wurm}, {Karona, the False God}, etc.. For multicolor.
You are mostly on track with what I am already planning.
Red is the only truly chaotic color
White balance type effects are the best form of white chaos
Blue has a great deal of spell redirection and copy effects
Green has hard to control creatures, or power with a drawback, as well as mana sharing
Black has random discard and hurt random player, or hurt you for random adavantage
Multicolor will be a big part of this cube
Lands will be mostly just fixing
One of my old school favourites, {Chaos Lord}
{Stolen goods}, {Whispering madness}, {Scion of Darkness}
I just posted a list of the cards I have physically set aside for this in the casual section.