Hey mark, I'm in an argument with a friend. My friend says that Slaughter Games is a color pie break because it shouldn't be red, because it doesn't need red to do anything it does, since black gets surgical extraction, and black can get "can't be countered" if it needs to (eg: thought distortion.) I'm arguing that that isn't how the color pie works, a card is in pie if all its effects fit in its colors, that a card having too many colors isn't a break. Who's correct?

You’re correct, but there’s a little nuance to it. First, a two-color card is allowed if one of the two colors can do the effect. That’s not considered a color pie break. There some aesthetic reasons we don’t do it too often, but it’s allowed colorpiewise.Second, “can’t be countered” is primary in red and tertiary in black. Black really isn’t supposed to be doing it often, and on a two-color card, tertiary abilities aren’t supposed to be used. That means the “can’t be countered” is coming from red.

Don't we already have Look At Me I'm The DCI in the form of Extirpate, Surgical Extraction and Slaughter Games?

Once again, Look at Me, I’m the DCI bans the card for the match. And yes, those cards are close for the effect for the game.

Why not just put "target non-basic land" on cards like slaughter games, non-basic has been used for years on wasteland and ghost quarter, so if you put it on slaughter games it can now be a awnser for all kinds of things like cavern of souls or valakut

Do you mean any card whatsoever but a basic land or a land but only one that’s non-basic? See the ambiguity?

Maro quick! Name 5 cards that aren't Jackie Chan!

Slaughter Games Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius Vraska the Unseen Growing Ranks and Jackie Chan. Damn it!