Is Wild Magic Surge a Color Pie Break?
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Posted on June 30, 2023, 9:12 p.m. by DemonDragonJ
WotC has acknowledged that Chaos Warp breaks the color pie, because that card allows red to remove enchantments from the battlefield, which red is not supposed to be able to do (and I personally believe that red also should not be able to deal with creatures or planeswalkers without dealing damage, as well), but the supposed replacement for that card, Wild Magic Surge, has its own problems, in my mind.
Wild Magic Surge destroys any permanent, which red also is not supposed to be able to do, as I stated in my previous paragraph, so I cannot understand how it was printed. The fact that WMS gives a player another permanent does not matter, since, WotC has acknowledged that cards such as Pongify and Ravenform are breaks, since blue is not supposed to be able to destroy permanents, even if it gives the player a new permanent in exchange, so I am very displeased that they broke their own rule with WMS; if Wild Magic Surge shuffled a permanent into its owner's library, I would have no problem with it, but I feel that it is a break, as it currently is.
What does everyone else say about this subject? Is Wild Magic Surge a color pie break?
DemonDragonJ says... #4
plakjekaas, I very much believe that Worldfire is a break, since it does multiple things that red is not supposed to do, and I also believe that Bearer of the Heavens should have been white, not red, since its effect is perfectly in-pie for white, but not for red.
Grubbernaut says... #2
Sort of, yes, but it's thematic to chaos. And neither of them are overly strong, so giving mono R something better than Ratchet Bomb is fine with me.
July 1, 2023 4:57 p.m.