Top 10 New Cards & Reprints in the Reality Fracture Commander Deck

Reality Fracture officially kicks off with prereleases on September 25, but you might have your eyes instead on the Multiverse Reforged Commander Precon. It features eighteen new cards and some smashing reprints. Today, let’s look at the hottest new cards to brew with, and the surprisingly good reprints in the precon

THE BEST NEW CARDS IN THE REALITY FRACTURE COMMANDER PRECON

Multiverse Reforged is the only precon we’re getting for Reality Fracture, and it’s clear that putting all of that focus into one deck has given us a myriad of cool new cards and impressive reprints. 

Omnath, Locus of the Void

First up, let’s check out alt-universe Omnath. Omnath, Locus of the Void is basically the polar opposite to the regular Omnath. Instead of offering the bounty of colored mana and all the benefits therein, he grants buffs to colorless in the form of two colorless mana on landfall, not emptying your unspent mana (and making it colorless), and getting the traditional +1/+1 for each unspent mana in your pool. 

While not the strongest colorless Commander, Omnath does still have potential as a “big colorless” Commander, in the same way OG Omnath was great for playing “big green”. Where I’m excited to run Omnath is within the 99 of colorless decks: Zhulodok, Void Gorger, Kozilek, the Great Distortion, and Ultron, Artificial Malevolence being the big winners here. 

VENSER, FERVENT FORGER

Mono-red Venser is really cool. A six mana flash creature has to have a lot going for it, and this one seems to make the grade. When he enters, you can either copy an instant or sorcery spell an opponent controls twice, or make two tokens that are copies of a permanent an opponent controls (at least until the beginning of the next end step). This is the ultimate equalizer card in red, allowing you to piggyback off of the crazy stuff your opponents are doing. If they play any blink creature like Felidar Sovereign, you get to win off of the back of it. 

Just be careful when you have Venser in play – if an opponent clones it, they’ll have the potential to go infinite too. When they clone Venser, they get to choose two permanents to copy. They pick Venser, and get two copies of Venser. The first Venser EtB copies Venser again, and the other Venser EtB can be anything they like. They can repeat this as many times as they want, and have a full hasty board and infinite mana. Against the wrong deck, you might just give yourself an avoidable loss. A very red card, all told.

NISSA, LEYLINE TAMER

Look what WUBR needs to mimic a fraction of green’s landfall power – a fraction! Nissa, Leyline Tamer costs a whopping seven mana, which is… a lot, especially in a deck without access to green. So, you’re stuffing your deck with mana rocks, but to what end? Well, she’s a Polymorph Commander, essentially. Her landfall trigger cascades into the next creature card and puts it into play. This is a deck that encourages you to run fetchlands, bring them back, and keep cracking them on alternating turns as you go around the table. 

While you’re encouraged to run non-creature ways to generate tokens and play some polymorph effects in order to hit your big haymakers, you should also run fetchlands alongside ways to reuse them. Hitting Sun Titan off of Nissa’s trigger only to bring back a fetchland, draw a card, and have it primed for the next player’s turn – that’s where you get a lot of value. Don’t sleep on Valgavoth here; not just as insane top end, but for stealing an opponent’s fetchland too. 

NIV–MIZZET, GHOST COUNCIL

Probably my favorite card from the precon, new Jace-verse Niv–Mizzet is now the Ghost Counsel, having consumed that actual Ghost Council on Jace’s version of Ravnica. Much like other forms of Niv, he is still all about drawing cards, just now with a decidedly Orzhov flavor. Whenever you gain life, you can pay that much life to draw that many cards – turning your lifegain into card draw whenever Niv is in play, if you want to. Like other Niv before him, he has a tap ability to enable himself. 

With Sheoldred, you can draw two more cards whenever you draw a card. With Blind Obedience, you can staple an Ancestral Recall to each spell you cast (while still having each opponent lose a life). Even old classics like Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim gain new utility here, with a one mana sacrifice outlet that can draw handfuls of cards. 

This is probably going to be the most-brewed Commander from the set in my opinion, and I’m all for it. What a fun card!

THE UR-SPHINX

If Niv-Mizzet has any competition for that top spot it is undoubtedly from The Ur-Sphinx, the Esper Sphinx version of the ever-popular The Ur-Dragon. This Sphinx Commander reduces the cost of the Sphinx spells you cast by {1}. When you do finally get it into play, each players mills as many cards as you have attacking Sphinxes. For each player, you get to cast a card milled in this way for free.

All told, this has The Ur-Sphinx feeling something akin to an Esper Etali, Primal Storm. It won’t come out as early as Etali, but it also won’t brick nearly as much. 

While it’s easy to concentrate on Raffine, Unesh, Tivit and Yennett, it’s some of the older and more midrangey Sphinx cards that warrant consideration here.

THE HOTTEST REPRINTS IN THE MULTIVERSE REFORGED PRECON

While the new cards are often the main draw in Commander precons, we also judge them by the value of their reprints. Are we getting some hidden gold here, or just standard fare? Well, it feels decidedly like gold. Here are the hits. 

SERRA EMISSARY

First up, there’s a copy of Serra Emissary. This seven mana Angel is brilliant finisher in white decks, giving your board protection from removal, or more commonly, protection from creatures – giving them unblockable, and making it so that you take no damage yourself. This is an Angel, sure, but it fits into all manner of white decks looking for white’s top-end finishers. In practice it plays similarly to Moonshaker Cavalry but with some extra utility.

ARCHON OF CRUEL TY

Getting a copy of Archon of Cruelty is advisable if you want to play reanimator at all in black. It’s got a stonkingly good enters and attack trigger, gives you cards and life, hits for a big chunk, and whittles down the opponent’s resources.

Archon of Cruelty is a powerful haymaker and I always want one available in graveyard decks.

REFLECTING POOL

While we still haven’t had shocklands or fetchlands printed in Commander Precon decks, we do occasionally get an expensive land reprinted, and with Multiverse Reforged, that land is Reflecting Pool. Reflecting Pool is perfect for multicolor decks in three, four and five colors, and acts as a good way to get access to multiple colors for meeting requirements on pip-heavy spells. If you’re playing it alongside Triomes, Command Tower and Mana Confluence, you should be able to get it to tap for whatever you want with ease.

Also, for what it’s worth: great, great art. 

FLAWLESS MANEUVER

Flawless Maneuver might not be as flashy as Deflecting Swat or Fierce Guardianship, but it’s still a phenomenal effect to have in your toolbox in white decks. Indestructible for free gives you a lot of room to make plays – either protecting your board from a board wipe or using it offensively to push through damage and have your creatures survive the combat step. Especially good if you’re taking multiple combats, or getting all of your value from making attacks, regardless of what might be able to block you.

ARCHFIEND OF DESPAIR

The most valuable reprint of all, though, is Archfiend of Despair. This Demon, originally from Battlebond, has thus far only had the one reprint in Commander Masters. This reprint is much needed and gives more players access to this powerful effect. It shuts off life gain and has a Wound Reflection stapled to it.

In decks that win through repeated life drain or burn, this kind of top-end is sorely needed, as it accelerates the reduction of life totals, while also throwing in something to think about when opponents decide where to attack. 

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The Reality Fracture precon contains an impressive amount of value across brand new designs and solid reprint value. Whether you’re sold on picking one up or now have some knowledge of singles to look out for, we hope this run down has proven useful. Let us know what you love about the deck on socials.