Reality Fracture is a fantastic Magic set on multiple axes, but one of its best aspects is the Echoverse versions of popular legendary creatures. These put interesting flavorful and mechanical spins on some of the game’s most beloved characters, like an Orzhov Lifegain Niv-Mizzet and a sacrifice-focused Avacyn. Omnath, Locus of the Void, a particularly strong card in this category, takes the multicolored MTG Elemental and reimagines it as a fully colorless Commander.
Omnath, Locus of the Void MTG
In a callback to its original Mono-Green variant, Omnath, Locus of the Void’s key gimmick is storing mana between turns and phases. In this case that mana becomes colorless, but since you can only run colorless cards in an Omnath deck anyway this isn’t much of a downside.
To make the most of this ability, you’ll want to lean into explosive colorless mana generators like Thran Dynamo and Scorched Ruins. Colorless mana doublers like Forsaken Monument and Ultima, Origin of Oblivion are great here too, especially with Doubling Cube to push things even further. Normally with these cards you run the risk of wasting excess mana each turn, but Omnath solves that problem while buffing itself in the bargain.
Another way to generate huge bursts of mana with Omnath is to build around Landfall, which nets you an Ancient Tombs worth of mana with every drop. Colorless Fetchlands like Fabled Passage and Evolving Wilds
Evolving Wilds{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. essentially become potent rituals thanks to this ability, which Crucible of Worlds can let you reuse. To support this land package, tutors like Urza’s Cave are must-runs, giving you easy access to the Tron lands for even more mana generation.
Once you’ve built up a ton of mana, Omnath will be a fearsome threat on stats alone, making a Voltron playstyle more than viable. With evasion-granting Equipment like Whispersilk Cloak
Whispersilk CloakEquipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2} and Brotherhood Regalia in tow, Omnath can easily take out opponents with Commander damage. Even if your colorless mana stash takes a hit, cards like Excalibur, Sword of Eden and Genji Glove
Genji GloveEquipped creature has double strike.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap it. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Equip {3} can make this happen regardless.
Omnath’s mana-stacking ability also gives you access to a bunch of powerful colorless mana outlets. Cards like Staff of Domination and Endbringer are great here, giving you options during opponents’ turns. Omnath is also fantastic alongside X spells like Walking Ballista and Kozilek’s Command, which get much better when you can invest multiple turns’ worth of resources into them.
If you’re more of a spender than a saver, Omnath’s ability to generate big chunks of colorless mana makes it an ideal home for an Eldrazi Typal sub-theme. You can easily drop huge haymakers like Emrakul, the Promised End and Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger here, diversifying your threat base so Omnath being removed doesn’t totally screw you over. Running big Eldrazi also lets you get a ton of mileage out of Echoes of Eternity, which doubles Omnath’s Landfall ability.
Crushing it With Colorless
Even when played fairly, Omnath, Locus of the Void gives you easy access to plenty of options and a huge beater on the ground, too. The card does have some unfair ways of ending games on the spot, however, such as its infinite Landfall combo with PuPu UFO, Voltaic Construct, and Cloudstone Curio.
Playing any land with Omnath out will net you the two mana needed to untap UFO with Construct, while also bouncing another land. You can then tap UFO to put the bounced land back into play, then rinse and repeat. With Crumbling Vestige, this combo can net you infinite mana, or you can just wipe out the pod immediately with infinite damage from Sunscorched Desert.
If you’d rather get Omnath’s hands (claws?) dirty, it can also net you instant wins in combat with Super State. Because it’s so easy to buff Omnath’s power to an absurd degree, this can easily take out the entire pod in one swing. For a nastier, but more certain, solution, you can give Omnath Infect with Grafted Exoskeleton first, ensuring a win as long as you have at least two mana floating.
Overall, while it’s technically less versatile than the many rainbow-hued Omnaths of the past, Locus of the Void still looks like a fantastic Commander. Though it’s pricey itself, the mana generation and storage here get out of hand fast, resulting in a surprisingly complex deck when you dig into it. Once Reality Fracture hits on October 2nd, you could do worse than try this new Echoverse Elemental.
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