The Best Reality Fracture Commander Decks So Far

Reality Fracture (FRA) dropped on October 2, and Commander (EDH) players started building with it as soon as the spoilers hit. Our library now holds more than 7,000 decks that include at least one card from the set, and roughly 3,500 of those are led by one of its new commanders.

We combed through them and pulled out the lists worth copying. Each deck below is a complete, legal 100-card list that a real player built, scored by power level and WotC bracket, and priced at today's card values. New card prices are still in flux, so read every number here as an October 3 snapshot and check the tile for the latest figure.

Emrakul, the Exigent Doom, art by Cristi Balanescu

Quick picks

Under $50

Each of these five decks costs under $50 and plays at bracket 2 or 3. They fit a casual table, a first Commander build, or a low-cost way to test a new commander before committing to it.

Nissa, Leyline Tamer, art by Justyna Dura

Nissa, Leyline Tamer

Nissa, Leyline Tamer arrives from the Reality Fracture Commander deck, and she is a Nissa with no green in her colors. She is white, blue, black and red, and every land that enters the battlefield under your control draws a card. The first land each turn also flips cards off the top of your library until it lands on a creature, then puts that creature straight onto the battlefield.

This $46 build is the most polished deck we found under $50. It runs 17 ramp pieces to keep the land drops coming, five board wipes to reset when it falls behind, and payoffs like Valakut Exploration and Felidar Retreat that reward every land in addition to what Nissa already does.

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Kwia Vigorbloom

Kwia Vigorbloom is one of the set's five Elder Sphinxes and the second most searched new commander, behind only Avacyn. The first time you gain life each turn, Kwia creates a Lotus token that can be sacrificed for three mana of a single color. The lifelink on Kwia itself turns that into a mana engine from the turn it attacks.

This green-white token deck costs $42, with Kwia making up about $9 of it. It plays six cards from the new set, Vigorbloom Charm and Koth of the Homestead among them, plus 16 ramp pieces to get the Sphinx out early.

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Dack Fayden, Helping Hand

Dack Fayden, Helping Hand is a political card. When Dack enters, you flip creatures off your library, one for each opponent, and hand one out to each of them. Those creatures are goaded for the rest of the game, so your opponents spend their turns attacking each other with your gifts.

This mono-white build costs $39 and relies on removal and big angels like Angel of Serenity to clean up whatever survives the chaos.

See every Dack Fayden, Helping Hand deck

Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone

Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone summons Mowu, a 3/3 Dog token, and untaps all your tokens at your end step. That lets your tokens attack and still block, or tap for abilities twice in a turn cycle.

At $40, this is the only bracket 3 deck we found under $50. It packs 20 ramp pieces and roughly as many token makers, with Champion of Lambholt and Full Flowering to grow the board.

Aerid Konstrari

If you want to play as much of the new set as possible, this is the one. 48 of its cards come from Reality Fracture, and the full list costs $39. It plays more like an opened booster box than a tuned list, but it is legal, it holds together, and it is the cheapest way to try a whole set's worth of new cards at a Commander table.

Aerid Konstrari itself is a red-green Elder Sphinx that leaves an artifact mana rock behind when it enters and again when it dies.

See every Aerid Konstrari deck

Strong decks under $200

These four play at bracket 3 or 4 and cost between $60 and $135. This is where the new set delivers the most power for the money.

Codie, Ravenous Codex, art by Steve Prescott

Codie, Ravenous Codex

Codie, Ravenous Codex copies every prepared spell you cast. Creatures with prepare have a spell on the second half of the card, so a deck full of them pulls off two spells for the price of one, over and over.

This build does exactly that. More than 20 of its cards are new creature-and-spell pairs, with older ones like Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor filling the gaps. At $60 and a power level of 5.9, it offers the best power-per-dollar of any deck we found. It is light on interaction, so expect to race rather than respond.

Codie costs three colorless mana but requires all five colors for its activated ability, so the deck is five-color.

See every Codie, Ravenous Codex deck

Jace, Multiverse Architect

Jace, Multiverse Architect is a four-color planeswalker that can serve as your commander, and the most-built commander in the set. Its +1 draws two cards and bottoms one. Its −3 exiles one of your creatures and flips cards until it lands on a creature or planeswalker to replace it.

Many Jace decks are near-copies of the precon. This $133 bracket 4 build is not. The −3 can swap a small creature for whatever creature or planeswalker comes next in the library, and this list makes sure that is often something like Avacyn, Angel of Horror or Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God.

See every Jace, Multiverse Architect deck, or only the bracket 3 lists under $200.

Tam, the Possibility

Tam, the Possibility is printed as a green-blue three-drop, but its proliferate ability costs one mana of every color, so a Tam deck is five-color. Tam makes planeswalkers cheaper and proliferates once for each different planeswalker type you control.

This $114 superfriends list plays a long game, packing 13 removal spells and 18 ramp pieces. New walkers like Ajani Unrelenting and Chandra, Chill of Compliance are the ones Tam drives toward their ultimates.

See every Tam, the Possibility deck, or just the bracket 3 builds.

Jodah, the Unifier

You don't need a new commander to play the new cards. Jodah, the Unifier casts a free legendary spell from your library whenever you cast one from your hand, and Reality Fracture added a lot of legends. This $110 deck plays 25 new cards, ten of them from the "Way of the" cycle, and it carries the highest synergy rating of any deck in this post.

The Elder Sphinxes

Reality Fracture has five Elder Sphinxes, one for each allied two-color pair, and all five rank among the set's most searched commanders. Kwia and Aerid appear above and Ingris further down, so here are all five side by side.

Uldaros Theorix, art by Alexander Mokhov

Uldaros Theorix

When you cast Uldaros Theorix, it exiles one card of each type from your graveyard, copies them, and lets you cast up to six mana's worth of the copies for free. The more card types you have in your graveyard, the bigger that turn gets.

This $189 list is a combo-and-control deck that fills the graveyard on purpose with cards like Gifts Ungiven, and Panharmonicon doubles the Sphinx's trigger. It runs 15 new cards.

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Denzilore Fatehold

Denzilore Fatehold has flash and puts a +1/+1 counter on each of your creatures whenever you scry or surveil. That suits a deck that holds up mana on the opponent's turn and filters its draws.

This $338 list has more interaction than any other deck here outside cEDH, with counterspells like Swan Song, Cyclonic Rift for the big turns, and The Theorist, Jace Beleren as the priciest new card in the deck.

See every Denzilore Fatehold deck, or the ones under $100.

The Ur-Sphinx

The Elder Sphinxes have a boss in The Ur-Sphinx, which makes every other Sphinx cheaper from the command zone. When your Sphinxes attack, every player mills that many cards, and you may cast one milled card from each player for free.

This $1,020 Sphinx kindred deck runs the kindred staples, Herald's Horn and Urza's Incubator among them, so the Sphinxes come down quickly. If that is more than you want to spend, there are 24 Ur-Sphinx decks under $200 in the full search.

No budget, the best builds so far

These are the best-built decks we found for the new commanders, judged on manabase, synergy and interaction rather than cost. They run over $1,000 because they include expensive staples, not because the new cards are pricey.

Avacyn, Angel of Horror, art by Pauline Voss

Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Avacyn, Angel of Horror is the most searched commander in the set. She costs eight mana and has flying and deathtouch. Whenever she or another nontoken creature you control dies, it returns at the next end step.

That makes her an aristocrats commander, where every sacrifice is free. This list runs 22 ramp pieces to reach eight mana, then grinds with Phyrexian Altar and The Meathook Massacre. She is the only Reality Fracture card in the deck, and the deck still plays like a new one because Avacyn changes what every creature in it does.

Want a cheaper entry point? There are 13 Avacyn decks under $200.

See every Avacyn, Angel of Horror deck

Omnath, Locus of the Void

This Omnath has no colors at all. Omnath, Locus of the Void adds two colorless mana on every land drop, and unspent mana never leaves your pool, so it piles up turn after turn. Omnath grows bigger with every unspent mana.

This Eldrazi list spends that mana on Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, Ugin, Eye of the Storms and Emrakul, the Exigent Doom. It carries 27 ramp pieces, the most of any deck here.

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Ingris Stingerquill

Whenever one of your creatures attacks, Ingris Stingerquill has it deal one damage to each opponent, and for four mana it creates a hasty 2/2 Cadet. Wide boards turn into a lot of damage before blockers even matter.

This list turns its tokens into mana with Mana Echoes and chains big turns with Jeska's Will and Reiterate. Ingris is also the easiest Sphinx to build cheaply, with 52 decks under $200.

Reality Fracture in cEDH

The new card cEDH players are adopting is not a commander. Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun gives your instants and sorceries split second, meaning nobody can respond to them with counterspells or abilities. On the turn you go for the win, your combo can't be stopped by a counterspell.

Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun, art by Grzegorz Rutkowski

Samut is already in 156 bracket 5 decks, and most are established lists like Vivi, Y'shtola, Kinnan and Thrasios pairs, not new brews. Geist of Saint Thalia, The Theorist, Jace Beleren and Pia, Aether Ascetic are showing up in those same decks.

The decks below are real cEDH lists with Samut in them. Four are led by older commanders. The fifth, led by Vraska, Soul of Stone, is the new commander that holds up best at this level, because every noncreature spell makes a Treasure creature to fuel a storm turn. Rograkh and Silas Renn is the one to look at if you want cEDH without spending thousands.

See every bracket 5 deck with Samut, every cEDH Vraska list, or the cEDH decks already playing Geist of Saint Thalia.

What about Emrakul?

Emrakul, the Exigent Doom is the third most searched of the new legends and one of the set's most expensive cards at about $23, but almost nobody leads a deck with it yet. Only three decks in our library run Emrakul as the commander. It appears in more than 300 decks as a finisher instead, often in ramp decks like the Omnath list above. You can browse every deck running it. Its price page tracks where it goes from here.

Searches to start from

Every list in this post is one of many. These searches open straight into the full results, and from there you can adjust the budget and bracket or drop any commander or card you don't want to see.

• Jace, Multiverse Architect at bracket 3, under $200
• Vraska, Soul of Stone under $150
• The strongest Codie, Ravenous Codex decks under $100
• Avacyn, Angel of Horror under $300
• Every deck running The Theorist, Jace Beleren
• Every deck running Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun

We will keep updating this post as prices settle and more decks come in.

The cover combines art by Pauline Voss (Avacyn, Angel of Horror), Ryan Pancoast (Kwia Vigorbloom), Volkan Baǵa (Jace, Multiverse Architect), Chase Stone (Ingris Stingerquill) and Arif Wijaya (Omnath, Locus of the Void).