TYPE
Sorcery

ABILITY
Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Roll a six-sided die. When you do, Slight Malfunction deals 1 damage to each of up to X target creatures, where X is the result.

FLAVOR TEXT
"Attention, valued patrons. The Tilt-o-Squirrel is now closed." —Astrotorium public address system

ILLUSTRATOR
Greg Bobrowski

LEGALITIES
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LANGUAGES
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RULINGS

• 2022-10-07 y target artifact.
• 2022-10-07 six-sided die. When you do, Slight Malfunction deals 1 damage to each of up to X target creatures, where X is the result.
• 2022-10-07 If you choose the second mode, Slight Malfunction goes on the stack without any targets. As it resolves, you roll a six-sided die. This causes the reflexive triggered ability trigger. You choose the targets for that ability as it goes on the stack.
• 2022-10-07 If an ability triggers "whenever you roll a die," it will trigger whenever you roll any die, including the planar die. This is a change from previous Un- rules. Some abilities use the result to determine part of the effect. If you get a non-numerical result (currently just the planar die, but the future is long), that part of the effect won't do anything.
• 2022-10-07 Something in the game must tell you to roll a die. If you roll a die for any other reason (to simulate a coin flip, to choose pizza toppings, to create alternate timelines), that roll doesn't count.
• 2022-10-07 Results can be numbers not ordinarily possible on a six-sided die. Spells like Scooch can change the result to 0 or 7, for example.
• 2022-10-07 If a die is rerolled, the original roll essentially never happened: it doesn't cause any abilities to trigger, and no effect that cares about die rolls will consider it.
• 2022-10-07 Each die is identified by the number of faces it has. A six-sided die is a die with six equally likely outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The roll must be fair. Although physical dice are recommended, digital substitutes are allowed except in cases where the physical die is required for the effect.
• 2022-10-07 Some effects may modify the result of a die roll. This may be part of the instruction to roll a die, or it may come from other cards. Anything that references the "result" of a die roll is looking for the result after these modifications.