Chaos Orb
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: Yes
Set: ()
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Oracle Text
{1}, {T}: If this artifact is on the battlefield, flip it onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If this artifact turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy this artifact.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- January 27, 2019
If you are playing Chaos Orb in the Old School format, the card's text is “{1}, {T}: Choose a nontoken permanent on the battlefield. If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, and lands resting on the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.”
Source: scryfall - October 4, 2004
You can arrange your cards any time before the Orb is put onto the battlefield, but not after. In general, you should not stack cards or put them in places where your opponent can't read the names of all of them or count them. This is recommended good gaming practice.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
Chaos Orb can only affect permanents. Cards that are in the game but not on the battlefield, such as those in the Library and Graveyard, can't be affected.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
If you have sleeves on cards, they count as the cards.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
You can't interfere in any physical way with activating this ability.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
This is a not a targeted ability.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
It must flip 360 degrees (that's what "flip" means). And this flip must be in the air and not in your hand.
Source: wotc
Price History
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