Wheel of Fortune... too dangerous to take it off the reserved list and reprint? Many decks would love the benefit of a full wheel in EDH I figure.

The Reserved List has nothing to do with power. There are plenty of weak cards on it.

WheelingNEW:Primary: RedThere's a big debate in R&D as to whether this is supposed to be a red ability. It obviously goes all the way back to Limited Edition (Alpha) with Wheel of Fortune, but it's a raw form of card advantage that's supposed to be something red is bad at. For now, it stays in red's part of the color pie.
We decided that we do this infrequently enough that it could just be a red thing. We felt blue didn't need it nearly as bad a red did."Why not just make Wheeling secondary in blue to fix this debate within R&D? I agree with the assessment that wheels work better in Red. You forgo any plans you had for the chance at a better path forward. It leads to a sense of impulsiveness within a game of magic, especially in commander where everyone now has to make up their plans on the fly. If you're worried about card advantage, restrict the cards drawn to the cards pitched, which some wheels already do.
Thanks for your time and this article, it was a fun read!

It was secondary in blue (see the 2017 Mechanical Color Pie). We removed it because it wasn’t an effect we used often enough to have a secondary color.

To follow up the Wheel of Fortune question, how does white symmetrical draw work? What can it do, and what can it not do?

I believe white can make you and any number of opponents (at least one) draw up to three cards.

Can red do targeted rummaging the way blue does targeted looting? Like "Target player discards a card, then draws a card".

No, that would be discard and red doesn’t make opponents discard (with the current exception being Wheel of Fortune where everyone exchanges their hand).

Hey Mark, what are your feelings on wheel of fortune?

It’s more card advantage through drawing than I like in red, but we haven’t found a better place to put the effect.

Which side of the "are wheel effects red" argument are you on?

I think Winds of Change is red but Wheel of Fortune is not. Too much potential card draw fur ted.

There's a card in Boss Monster that makes everyone discard their hand and draw a new one. It's called Jeopardy, and the illustration looks like Alex Trebek. It's a rather oblique reference to Wheel of Fortune.

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Could red get, "target opponent discards a land"?

No. Red doesn’t do permanent discard (with the exception of Wheel of Fortune and Winds of Change variants).

I've been wondering about wheel effects and where it currently stands in the color pie. From what you've said here and recent cards; Red has 'winds of change' effect and sometime 'wheel of fortune' effect. Blue has 'windfall' effect and sometime 'timetwister' effect. Black has 'wheel' effect minus one and blue/black also has 'windfall'. Is this a correct assessment? why is this effect in so many colors?

It’s an effect that’s relatively infrequent that we’ve never nailed down. We should.

Would you be more willing to have the Wheel of Fortune effect be on a Blue/Red card than a mono-red card?

Yes.