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Chaos Wand

Artifact MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

4, T: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of that library in a random order.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2018-07-13

    If you wish to cast the exiled card, you must cast it while Chaos Wand's ability is resolving. You can't cast it later in the turn. A spell cast this way may be cast at a time you normally wouldn't be able to cast a spell of that type, but other restrictions (such as "Cast this spell only during combat") are enforced.

  • 2018-07-13

    If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, those must be paid to cast the card.

  • 2018-07-13

    If you don't cast the exiled instant or sorcery card, it's put on the bottom of that library with the other cards.

  • 2018-07-13

    If the exiled card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • 2018-07-13

    If the opponent exiles their entire library without exiling an instant or sorcery card, that player stops exiling cards, and the exiled cards are put into their library in a random order.

  • 2018-07-13

    The opponent stops exiling cards as soon as they exile any instant or sorcery card. You don't choose which card type to look for.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Chaos Wand, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 6
Win rate 16.7%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Clara Oswald 1 6 16.7%
The Twelfth Doctor 1 6 16.7%

Colors it shows up in

  • Izzet 1 deck

Every version of Chaos Wand

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Chaos Wand — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.