Pandemonium

Spike's Card Retrieval Limits

Unrules question: Can Spike, Tournament Grinder grab cards banned in Arena joke formats? For example, Poly-Raptor and a few others are banned in the Pandemonium event happening right now.

No, it must be an official ongoing format.

Bannings Format Legality Format Legality Humor Magic Arena Pandemonium Spike Spike, Tournament Grinder Un-sets

Pyxis Obscure Facts

It's my birthday! Can I get some trivia on my favorite card, Pyxis of Pandemonium? The more obscure the better!

The card is a top-down Pandora’s Box. Happy Birthday!

Birthday Pyxis of Pandemonium Top Down

Switching Mechanics

Do Mary O'Kill and the Killbots "enter the battlefield" when they are switched, for purposes of a card like Pandemonium?

No, switched cards do not “enter the battlefield”. They just exchange positions.

Enter The Battlefield Exchange Mary O'Kill Pandemonium

Planar Chaos Concept

How about a Planar Chaos set with alternate tribes and parallel timeline cards instead of color pie pandemonium? Flavour discontinuity not mechanical breaks?

I’m not sure the creative team we be on board, but it’s something I’d be more likely to make as a Planar Chaos 2.

Color Pie Colors Discontinuity Flavor Pandemonium Planar Chaos

Rare Mythics in Limited

Are some cards that aren't very good in limited (im thinking of Pyxis of Pandemonium as an example) made rare or mythic so they don't mess up limited play?

Yes.

Limited Pyxis of Pandemonium Rares

Pyxis of Pandemonium

Do you know who designed Pyxis of Pandemonium? It's one of my favorite cards to play right now.

I think that was a Ken Nagle design but I’m not 100%. If not Ken, my next best guess would be Ethan Fleischer.

Ethan Fleischer Ken Nagle Pyxis of Pandemonium

Pandora Reference

Re: Pandora's Box - I thought Pyxis of Pandemonium was a reference to it?

It was. I think the poster liked the name “Pandora’s Mox”.

Pandora's Box Pyxis of Pandemonium

Card Design Preferences

I mentioned it in a comment, but really, I do think putting "you control" or "your opponents" is the worst thing you can do to a card. I will always love Second Sunrise over Faiths Reward, Furnace of Rath over Gratuitous Violence, and Pandemonium over Warstorm Surge, simply because there were more interactive, thought-intensive, and required you to plan around them. They were fun because they had a chance to backfire, not just one-sided set-and-forget "this helps me win harder" cards.

Our data shows you are in the minority on this issue. We’ll still make things universal in effect when we think it’s important to the card but our default right now is affecting only yours or the opponents’ stuff depending on the effect.

Furnace of Rath Gratuitous Violence Pandemonium Second Sunrise Surge Warstorm Surge

Squirrel Chaos

Hypothetically, if I were playing a game of Silver-Bordered Magic, and I had access to a live squirrel, and I put that squirrel onto the table after playing Form of the Squirrel, but then the Squirrel ran out of the room amid the resulting pandemonium. Do I lose the game? I image as silver bordered rules manager you get asked that a lot.

As much as it saddens me, I cannot officially condone the bringing of a live squirrel to a Magic event (They’re basically rats with better PR if you’re unaware.)

Form of the Squirrel Pandemonium Rat Rat Rules Squirrel Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn

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