MTG Reality Fracture Commander Decklist: Every Card in Multiverse Reforged
Updated: 5 days ago
Wizards finally revealed the full Reality Fracture Commander decklist for Multiverse Reforged.
The deck is led by Jace, Multiverse Architect, with Nissa, Leyline Tamer as the backup commander. The main plan is Polymorph: make small creatures and tokens, then turn them into much bigger threats.
That's the simple version, but the actual decklist gets much stranger. There's a colorless Omnath, a white Ob Nixilis, a black Avacyn and an Ur-Sphinx with Eminence.
Here's everything in the deck and what actually stands out.
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MTG Reality Fracture Commander Decklist Quick Look
Jace and Nissa
Jace gives the deck an actual identity instead of being another pile of Commander cards. Make cheap creatures or tokens, then turn them into the expensive creatures waiting in the deck.
Nissa might be easier to play. Landfall draws cards and helps get creatures directly out of the library without jumping through as many Polymorph hoops.
I could easily see people buying this for Jace and eventually switching to Nissa.
The New Multiverse Reforged Cards
This is very good for Commander players. But a little weird for the precon itself.
There are a lot of cards here that immediately make me want to build a completely different deck.
The Ur-Sphinx is probably the clearest example. Eminence is back, and Sphinx players now have a commander built specifically for them.
Omnath, Locus of the Void finally gives players the colorless Omnath they've been asking for.
Niv-Mizzet, Avacyn, Ob Nixilis, Tamiyo and the rest all have their own obvious build-around ideas too.
That's good for the product.
I'm just not convinced all of them are here because they make Jace better. Some feel like future Commander decks packaged inside the Jace precon.
The Polymorph Package
his one is interesting. You need creatures you don't care about losing, and then you need ways to turn them into something better.
A 1/1 token becoming Archon of Cruelty is exactly what this deck wants to do.
My only concern is what happens when the big creatures start showing up in your hand instead of your library. That's where Jace decks like this can get awkward.
Nissa and the mana rocks help, but this is probably going to be a deck where the good games look really good and the clunky games feel very clunky.
The Big Creatures
We like this one, with a catch.
These are the cards you actually want Jace to find.
Archon of Cruelty is the obvious hit. If I trade some random token for Archon, I'm having a pretty good turn.
The problem is drawing too many of these cards naturally.
That's just part of playing this type of deck, and it's probably the first thing I'd watch when actually playing Multiverse Reforged out of the box.
The Reprints
I'm not putting a dollar value on the deck yet. The list was just revealed, and reprint prices are going to move.
But this isn't a box where all the interesting cards are brand new.
There are recognizable reprints here, and several of them actually belong in the strategy. Mass Polymorph and Proteus Staff aren't just there to make the reprint list look better. They're cards the deck wants.
That's a good sign.
The Mana
Multiverse Reforged includes:
This is a four-color deck, so the mana matters.
There are enough rocks here that hard-casting one of your giant creatures isn't impossible when the Polymorph plan falls apart.
The land base isn't perfect, but this also isn't the kind of old Commander precon where half the mana base makes you wonder what happened.
Three More Turbulent Lands
They're fetchable two-color lands that can enter untapped later in the game.
More importantly for collectors and people following the cycle, Wizards confirmed during the reveal that two Turbulent lands are still missing.
So Reality Fracture gets us closer to finishing the cycle, but not all the way there.
Darksteel Angel Is More Interesting Than It Looks
Darksteel Angel already makes sense as one of the big creatures Jace wants to find, but the artwork is probably the more interesting part of the card.
Gavin Verhey said Wizards had been sitting on the piece for nearly two decades after it was originally created during the old **New Phyrexia vs. Mirrodin Pure** promotion. New Phyrexia became the actual set, Mirrodin Pure never happened, and the artwork was left unused until Reality Fracture finally gave Wizards an alternate reality where it fit.
That story is interesting enough that Darksteel Angel is probably getting its own article.
One Weird Mistake
Ob Nixilis, the Ascended creates a **4/4 white Angel token**, but the first printing of Multiverse Reforged includes the wrong one. Wizards says those decks contain a **3/3 blue Angel token** instead, which is obviously a mistake, but not one that’s going to ruin the deck.
You can use another Angel token and keep playing, and Wizards says later printings will include the correct 4/4 white Angel. The proper token can also appear in Reality Fracture Collector Boosters, so this is more of a strange production error than a serious gameplay problem.
It’s still an odd thing to see in a preconstructed Commander deck.
Full Multiverse Reforged Decklist
Is Multiverse Reforged Good?
There’s a real deck here, and Jace gives it a clear Polymorph plan built around token makers, Polymorph effects and big creatures worth cheating onto the battlefield. Nissa gives you another way to play when you don’t want to rely completely on Jace, while the reprints are solid enough that the deck doesn’t feel like it’s leaning entirely on the new cards.
The new legendary creatures might actually be the best part of the product, even if several of them eventually leave Multiverse Reforged for decks of their own. What I’m not ready to say yet is that the stock list is great out of the box, because I want to see how often the Jace plan comes together compared to how often someone ends up staring at a hand full of expensive creatures they were hoping to cheat into play.
That’s the part playing the deck will answer. Based on the reveal alone, though, there’s plenty here to like.
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