Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist
Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library.
During each player's turn, that player may cast a spell from among the cards they don't own exiled with Ian Malcolm, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Jurassic World Collection
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10888
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician rewards you for leaning into chaos effects — random outcomes, coin flips, and wheel-adjacent variance — by turning that unpredictability into a consistent card-advantage engine. The cost is real: you're building around a legendary creature whose payoff depends on your deck doing something most decks actively avoid.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Ian Malcolm, Chaotician belongs — the multiplayer environment gives you more triggers, more opponents to benefit from randomized effects, and a broader card pool to assemble chaos-themed synergies. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but has no competitive footprint; those formats have no interest in a three-mana legendary whose value accrues slowly over a game. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning: Ian Malcolm, Chaotician as a signature spell target or paired planeswalker shell could create a niche chaos-value loop, though the format's smaller deck size limits consistency.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Ian Malcolm, Chaotician isn't available at the moment, so check your preferred retailer or Scryfall for the current market rate. As a named-IP legendary with a narrow but dedicated audience, supply and demand tend to swing sharply around its release window — picking it up sooner rather than later is usually the safer call for cards like this.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.