With Reality Fracture’s spoiler season well underway, there are tons of goodies for players to see. The uncommons in this set seem particularly powerful, with a surprising number showing multiformat promise. Prophesied End might be the most interesting Reality Fracture uncommon we’ve seen so far, but it’s far from the only powerful thing revealed recently.
MTG Prophesied End
If you’ve played a lot of Commander, especially with prizes on the line, you’ve probably run into the Thassa’s Oracle
Thassa’s OracleWhen this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) and Demonic Consultation combo. By resolving Oracle and naming a card that’s not in your library with Consultation, this combo wins the game for just three mana. Prophesied End offers the perfect removal piece to deal with this combo, forcing your opponent to draw a card and lose the game.
Even if your opponent isn’t running Thassa’s Oracle, unconditional removal for two mana is still a fantastic deal, even if your opponent draws a card in Commander. A lot of common cards, like Tataru Taru, Smothering Tithe
Smothering TitheWhenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color."), and Notion Thief
Notion ThiefFlash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card. also benefit from this card draw, turning it into even more advantage.
Outside of Commander, Prophesied End could even see play in constructed formats like Standard thanks to its conditional clause, making it the best tool in the format for dealing with attacking creatures. That said, while letting an opponent draw a card in an emergency is fine, Erode is a better option if you need to destroy non-attacking creatures consistently.
While this means that Prophesied End’s Standard potential is a little up in the air, the card should certainly make for a fantastic Commander card. Honestly, this could end up being yet another white super staple in the format, falling behind the likes of Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile
Path to ExileExile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle., but just barely.
MTG Cruel Calculations
For fans of milling in MTG, Cruel Calculations is likely the most exciting card in all of Reality Fracture, drawing tons of cards in the right deck. With a Hedron Crab start and a Fetch land follow-up, this card draws a whopping six cards for just three mana! With Brain Freeze
Brain FreezeTarget player mills three cards.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.) in Historic, Legacy, or Commander, you could even draw your entire deck.
While this is already fantastic for mill-based strategies, Cruel Calculations also supports self-mill strategies, making it a strong card with creatures like Emry, Lurker of the Loch. That said, Cruel Calculations looks particularly ridiculous in Dredge strategies alongside cards like Stinkweed Imp
Stinkweed ImpFlying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.). There, instead of drawing five cards, Cruel Calculations will likely trigger a series of Dredge effects, milling upwards of 25 cards from your deck!
This even makes for a great upgrade to a series of popular Commander precons, as Cruel Calculations can refuel your hand withCommanders like Teval, the Balanced Scale and The Wise Mothman. Thanks to its interactions with Dredge, in particular, Cruel Calculations could very well revive an entire MTG archetype.
MTG Face Yourself
Taking the ‘what if?’ theme of Reality Fracture to a whole new level, Face Yourself duplicates your opponent’s board, threatening revenge kills in Commander out of nowhere. With a Planeswalker in the Command Zone, like Dihada, Binder of Wills, Commodore Guff
Commodore GuffAt the beginning of your end step, put a loyalty counter on another target planeswalker you control.
+1: Create a 1/1 red Wizard creature token with "{T}: Add {R}. Spend this mana only to cast a planeswalker spell."
−3: You draw X cards and Commodore Guff deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of planeswalkers you control.
Commodore Guff can be your commander. or the new five-colored Arzakon, fulfilling this card’s condition is trivial, too.
You don’t necessarily need a Planeswalker to keep your tokens around, however, since ending the turn early with effects like Obeka, Brute Chronologist will do the same thing. Outside of turn-ending shenanigans, cards like The Master, Multiplied also stop Face Yourself’s sacrificial clause outright.
If that weren’t enough, Face Yourself is also strong in decks with token payoffs, since Anointed Procession
Anointed ProcessionIf an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. lets you double up on your opponent’s creatures. Alternatively, pairing this card with effects like Grave Pact
Grave PactWhenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice. or Dictate of Erebos will essentially force your opponent to sacrifice their entire board.
With all this in mind, Face Yourself looks like a splashy new MTG Commander payoff that should frequent many bracket 2-3 tables after the release of Reality Fracture.
MTG Vigorbloom Charm
For Selesnya players in Standard and Commander, Vigorbloom Charm is a fantastic modal spell that’s basically capable of just doing absolutely everything. Whether you protect your Commander from a removal spell, draw a card and trigger cards like Ajani’s Pridemate
Ajani’s PridemateWhenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature., or use this as removal, this card’s versatility makes it an all-timer.
Alongside being a fantastic upgrade to Secret Lair Miku, Song of the People precons, Vigorbloom Charm has a decent shot of seeing Standard play, especially if Selesnya Landfall variants return. Between protecting your Mightform Harmonizer
Mightform HarmonizerLandfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the power of target creature you control until end of turn.
Warp {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.) and knocking out problematic creatures like Wan Shi Tong, Librarian, Vigorbloom Charm will always do exactly what you need.
MTG Theorix Charm
While I am a bit leery of this card’s playability, many MTG players are quite excited for Theorix Charm in competitive formats. Similar to the other Charms in Reality Fracture, all three of Theorix Charm’s modes are extremely relevant, acting as countermagic, removal, and card draw.
Admittedly, this card’s versatility, combined with its third mode, makes it particularly interesting in Modern, with all kinds of MTG decks getting value for milling cards. Whether you want to mill over Atraxa, Grand Unifier in Esper Goryo’s, or fuel your Psychic Frog
Psychic FrogWhenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw a card.
Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Exile three cards from your graveyard: This creature gains flying until end of turn. and Murktide Regents in Dimir Frog, Theorix Charm’s third mode can punish players for respecting your open mana. If Standard can support a Grixis deck, this card could do something similar in a Grixis Spellementals deck.
In Commander, Theorix Charm can still be impressive in the right MTG decks, but the card is a lot less interesting overall. With how long games go, paying two mana won’t be a difficult thing most of the time, while many of Commander’s threats are outside the -2/-2 effect. Still, considering that we’re smack in the middle of a Regional Championship Season for Modern, Theorix Charm could quickly become a popular card.
MTG Heartwood Crafter
This mana dork might look a bit innocuous, but Heartwood Crafter looks extremely interesting for Gruul Commander decks. The card can essentially ramp you two mana during the game’s opening turns thanks to Heartwood Proxy’s ability to tap for its own Prepared Spell. This gives you four mana to use for cards outside of your hand on turn 3, which your Commander happens to qualify as.
While this makes Heartwood Crafter an interesting option for any Commander deck, the card is even better when played with Commanders like Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
Faldorn, Dread Wolf HeraldWhenever you cast a spell from exile or a land you control enters from exile, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.
{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn. and Hugs, Grisly Guardian. It may not fit in every MTG Commander deck, but this is quite a powerful ramp piece for the right deck.
MTG Theorist’s Proxy
Revealed a few days ago, right after Reality Fracture’s spoiler season kickoff, Theorist’s Proxy might become a multi-format staple. Offering a blocker that replaces itself by Empowering Jace 3, this creature is already pure card advantage, but it gets even better. Making your next spell uncounterable can clear the way for game-winning combo payoffs like Neoform
NeoformAs an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it, then shuffle., Scapeshift, or Green Sun’s Zenith.
While this seems like a great enabler for all kinds of combo decks, Theorist’s Proxy could be even better with the new Reality Fracture combo with Jace’s Machinations and Kasmina, Enigma Sage. On top of making your combo pieces uncounterable, Empower Jace 3 becomes a lot more valuable with Kasmina in play.
While Theorist’s Proxy isn’t quite as exciting in Commander, it may not be a bad option for higher-powered tables. If you win the game by resolving one particularly powerful spell, Theorist’s Proxy can help set that up while replacing itself. That said, cards like Voice of Victory
Voice of VictoryMobilize 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, create two tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.)
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. are strictly better for playing around countermagic, so this may be a card that only impacts constructed formats.
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