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The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Why is this card good?
Chaos Warp is red's premier catch-all answer, and that's a huge deal in a color historically starved for removal. Red can't reliably destroy enchantments or interact with planeswalkers, but Chaos Warp hits any permanent — artifact, enchantment, creature, planeswalker, even a problematic land. That flexibility is why it's a near-auto-include in mono-red and red-heavy decks.
The catch: it doesn't kill anything cleanly. The owner shuffles the permanent away (no graveyard value for them) but gets a free top-deck flip, which can put a permanent onto the battlefield. Roughly a third of the time you're "gambling" them into a new threat. That's an acceptable price for hitting something you otherwise can't touch.
Use it on must-answer permanents — an opposing combo piece, a backbreaking enchantment, a flipped Stax engine. Don't waste it on cheap creatures where the random flip could hand your opponent a better card. It's a precision tool, not a value engine. In red, that flexibility is irreplaceable.
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