Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
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What it does
Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library.
During each player's turn, that player may cast a spell from among the cards they don't own exiled with Ian Malcolm, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-11-10
Players must follow all applicable timing rules for casting spells with the permission granted by Ian Malcolm, Chaotician's last ability. For example, if the spell is a sorcery, it can only be cast during that player's main phase while the stack is empty.
- 2023-11-10
The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless. Snow mana is not a type of mana. Ian Malcolm, Chaotician won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source.
- 2023-11-10
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician's first ability can trigger only once each turn for each player. It doesn't matter if Ian was on the battlefield when the first card was drawn. If you control it when a player draws their second card in a turn, that ability will trigger.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Ian Malcolm, Chaotician in the command zone.
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician price history
The Jurassic World Collection #13 · Inverted printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2026 | $6.41 | $11.21 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $6.41 | $11.21 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $6.23 | $11.21 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $6.39 | $11.21 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $6.36 | $11.23 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
2 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Inverted
Jurassic World Collection
- Normal
- $6.41
- Foil
- $11.21
Inverted
Jurassic World Collection
- Foil
- $647.99
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ian Malcolm, Chaotician. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
