By reimagining powerful, popular MTG designs, Reality Fracture was built to be a hit from the start. With many popular Commander cards reimagined, often upgraded from the original, this set offers plenty of options for EDH players.
As the set has aged, the abundance of strong Commander cards has become a blessing in more than one way. Because this set has so much Commander support, many cards have been overlooked and are incredibly cheap. With prices likely to inflate once Reality Fracture goes out of print, picking these budget options up now may be in your best interest.
MTG Gardenize
Price: $1.05
Offering a 3-mana alternative to Black Market
Black MarketWhenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment., Gardenize comes into play much earlier, but it only sees your creatures that die. Still, for Aristocrat decks like Dina, Essence Brewer, and Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Gardenize can rack up counters quickly and generate tons of mana each turn. From here, dropping a game-ending Craterhoof Behemoth
Craterhoof BehemothHaste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. or Finale of Devastation is trivial.
If that weren’t enough, Gardenize can even set up delayed infinite-mana combos with common Aristocrats loops. For example, with Gravecrawler, Phyrexian Altar, and another Zombie, you can put infinite counters on Gardenize, generating all the green mana you could ever want on your next turn.
For reference, Black Market, the card that Gardenize is based on, is currently available for around $7 at the cheapest, highlighting this card’s potential. As Reality Fracture ages, this enchantment is likely to get more expensive once players realize how good it is.
MTG Simulacrum Shaper
Price: $1.95
Similar to Gardenize, Simulacrum Shaper is a retrain of the Commander-famous Solemn Simulacrum, who is frankly a bit weak nowadays for MTG Commander. You do need to be in green to use Shaper, but the cost reduction from four to three is a big deal, letting Shaper hit the battlefield on the same turn as cards like Cultivate. You also get way stronger creature types compared to the sad robot, opening up Typal synergies with Commanders like Lathril, Blade of the Elves
Lathril, Blade of the ElvesMenace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever Lathril deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens.
{T}, Tap ten untapped Elves you control: Each opponent loses 10 life and you gain 10 life., and Maralen, Fae Ascendant.
In many Commander decks, Simulacrum Shaper will perform far better than a typical 3-mana ramp spell like Kodama’s Reach. Blink decks like Roon of the Hidden Realm, for example, can recur Simulacrum Shaper’s enters ability, getting multiple lands from the Elf. Alternatively, Aristocrat decks can use Shaper’s body to trigger its synergistic pieces while drawing a card.
Even without synergies, for decks that are slow to get on the board, Simulacrum Shaper’s ability to block down early attackers can make it a stronger asset than other three-mana ramp pieces. With that in mind, the creature’s current $1.95 price tag seems cheap.
MTG Kindred Judgment
Price: $1.61
As a white variant of Kindred Dominance, Kindred Judgment is bafflingly cheap. After all, this one-sided board wipe is basically an auto-include in every white Typal Commander deck, suggesting that tens of thousands of decks could easily use this as an upgrade. This also goes for a ton of recent MTG Commander precons, like Avengers Assemble, Dance of the Elements, and Lorehold Spirit.
If you have any of these precons sleeved up, picking up Kindred Judgment for just a dollar feels like a steal. For reference, despite having a ton of reprints lately, Kindred Dominance currently goes for $4 at the cheapest, suggesting that Kindred Judgment won’t stay cheap forever.
MTG Liliana, The Repentant
Price: $0.79
For Commander decks that care about the graveyard, like Muldrotha, the Gravetide, or the Sultai Arisen Precon, adding Liliana, the Repentant for a measly $0.80 is a no-brainer.
Milling cards whenever a creature or Planeswalker enters, Liliana can put a ridiculous number of cards into your graveyard with Teval, the Balanced Scale or Sidisi, Brood Tyrant in the command zone. With Sidisi, depending on what you mill, Liliana can even mill through your entire library, creating a Zombie army.
If that weren’t enough, Liliana’s Exhaust ability lets you reanimate a key creature to your strategy. This allows Liliana to pull combo-centric creatures like 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.) out of the bin, or a massive Lord of Extinction
Lord of ExtinctionLord of Extinction's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in all graveyards. from the Sultai Arisen precon. This recursion means that milling over core creatures with Liliana is a much lower risk, making this creature even better than other mill tools.
MTG Rise of the Deathbringer
Price: $0.30
A new take on Return of the Wildspeaker, Rise of the Deathbringer is a boring-looking Reality Fracture rare that has a ton of potential. For any Voltron-esque decks that want to create a massive creature, like Kotis, the Fangkeeper or Skullbriar, the Walking Grave, Rise of the Deathbringer can refill your hand with ease. The board-wipe mode is a perfect pair for these Commanders, clearing small chump blockers that would otherwise jump in front of them.
Even if you don’t have much synergy with this card’s first mode, instant-speed board wipes are rare and extremely powerful. For example, clearing an opponent’s wide Token board before slamming a massive threat can be a huge tempo swing. Alternatively, playing this in response to a massive Overrun
OverrunCreatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) effect can be absolutely devastating.
While Return of the Wildspeaker is only a $2 card right now, it has seen an absolutely ridiculous number of reprints, which has undeniably kept its price low. If Rise of the Deathbringer sees few reprints in the future, its current $0.30 price tag may be a huge bargain.
MTG Face Yourself
Price: $0.33
Of all the cards on this list, Face Yourself might be the one that doesn’t see a huge price increase in the future, but it remains an insanely powerful Commander card in lower brackets. Even without a Planeswalker in play, copying your scariest opponent’s board can be a game-winning maneuver. Of course, for specific Commander strategies that use cards like Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite, you can ignore Face Yourself’s downside, too.
While this is an obvious auto-include for Superfriends decks, or an upgrade for Reality Fracture’s Multiverse Reforged precon, Face Yourself also has a ton of synergy with Aristocrat decks. Cards like Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER or Mayhem Devil can trigger this card’s downside a ton, making it even more potent as an offensive tool. For just $0.33, this might be one of the best budget win conditions in all of Commander.
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