Insane Multiverse Reforged MTG Precon Includes 13 Wild New Legends

At long last, Wizards of the Coast has fully revealed the Multiverse Reforged precon for Reality Fracture. This MTG set may only be getting one precon, but Wizards has gone all out, creating 16 brand-new cards for it. Out of these, 13 of the new cards are fantastic reality-swapped legendary creatures, and there are a few stellar new staples, too.

(Notably, the decklist below is currently missing Plan for All Outcomes, but we’ll update the deck once that’s available online.)

MTG Jace, Multiverse Architect

As the face Commander for the Multiverse Reforged precon, MTG players have been waiting for this Planeswalker for a while. Sadly, while this Jace can do some interesting things, its power doesn’t match some of the insane legends within the 99. That said, since you can ultimate Jace, Multiverse Architect as soon as it enters, shenanigans are definitely possible.

Notably, while cheating in a high-value creature or Planeswalker is always good, it’s vital to the Multiverse Reforged precon. This deck contains tons of high power and high mana value creatures, but very little ramp to play them normally. As such, you’ll likely be leaning on Jace to cheat things out early, although even he’s not very cheap.

Unfortunately, while Jace’s ultimate can do work, its passive and plus ability aren’t much to write home about. Technically, the first ability is decent protection, but since the cost is per turn, not per creature, it’s easily avoided. The plus ability, meanwhile, is just pretty meager card selection, which is useful, but hardly groundbreaking.

All in all, given the hype around him, Jace, Multiverse Architect is a bit of a letdown. Hopefully this card will actually play alright in the precon; otherwise it might end up being replaced there. If this does happen, this Jace will likely be relegated to the 99 of existing Superfriends decks.

MTG Nissa, Leyline Tamer

If you don’t like the look of Jace, Multiverse Architect, Nissa, Leyline Tamer is the secondary Commander option in Multiverse Reforged. Sadly, Nissa doesn’t really look like a great choice for the deck, either, since she costs seven mana. Once again, the lack of traditional ramp is a real problem here, but that doesn’t mean that Nissa is always bad.

Outside of the Multiverse Reforged precon, Nissa, Leyline Tamer has one of the best Landfall abilities in MTG. Being able to cheat in a creature every turn, even if only once per turn, this Nissa can easily take over a game on her own. While this will make her a very powerful build around in a dedicated deck, admittedly, she’s still not perfect.

As much as it might be a fun deckbuilding constraint, the lack of access to green is devastating for Nissa, Leyline Tamer. It’s no secret that all of the best ramp cards, not to mention Landfall cards, are green, and Nissa can’t use any of them. Due to this, Nissa, Leyline Tamer may end up being relegated to the 99 of five-color decks, which feels like a real shame.

MTG Omnath, Locus of the Void

For better or worse, Omnath, Locus of the Void will have no problems when it comes to its color identity. Technically, you can cram this legend into any deck, but realistically it’ll just be a Landfall and Ramp-focused card. In either of these archetypes, however, Omnath will more than pull its weight, easily creating tons of mana.

Beyond just fueling your future plays, Omnath’s mana retention is an always useful ability, especially alongside cards like Seedborn Muse Seedborn Muse Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step. . To top it all off, Omnath even gets buffed when you hoard mana, making it an all-in-one engine and threat. In theory, you could even run it as a Commander, too, but it’s definitely better suited to the 99.

MTG Ob Nixilis, the Ascended

As one of the least expected and best-looking reality-swapped cards, Ob Nixilis, the Ascended absolutely slaps. Its abilities aren’t all too bad, either, as it’ll work wonders in Angel Typal and Lifegain-focused Commander decks. Whichever way you go, this Ob Nixilis isn’t hard to exploit, as you can fairly easily get four Angels per turn cycle.

Thanks to this potent token-producing ability, Ob Nixilis, the Ascended even makes for a solid Commander. Here, its devastating board wipe becomes a repeatable, albeit expensive, threat that can shut games down. While its abilities are somewhat simple, this definitely isn’t a card that you’ll want to underestimate.

MTG Dack Fayden, Helping Hand

While it technically has a major downside, Dack Fayden, Helping Hand is an absolutely nuts Magic: The Gathering card. For six mana, you get to cheat up to three cards into play, which should easily net you positive value. The big downside, however, is that these cards will be gifted to your opponents, though they do get Goaded.

Thankfully, this does mean that you should be safe from whatever Dack Dayden, Helping Hand gives away. On top of this, since they all enter normally first, you’ll get to reap the benefits of any enters abilities. So long as you focus on these one-and-done abilities and high-power creatures, Dack Fayden, Helping Hand can be a real menace.

MTG Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Speaking of being a menace, Avacyn, Angel of Horror is very difficult to remove. Unlike most cards with similar effects, this Avacyn’s reanimation ability includes itself, allowing self-reanimation at every end step. Considering Avacyn also has insane stats and solid evasion, too, this legend can be a serious beater.

Notably, while Avacyn, Angel of Horror does more than enough to be a solid Commander, it’s arguably best in Aristocrats decks. Since you can sacrifice your entire board, itself included, every turn, this archetype will get no end of triggers. The only thing you’d really have to watch out for is exile-based board wipes, as that’s one of the very few foils to this card.

MTG Jhoria, Weatherlight Corsair

Continuing Multiverse Reforged’s mishmash theme, Jhoria, Weatherlight Corsair is another interesting yet expensive Commander option. Capable of easily stealing a card from an opponent and putting it into play, Jhoira is very solid for the card-stealing archetype. That said, since she’s mono-black, she’s much better in the 99 where she’ll have access to better support.

Within a Laughing Jasper Flint Laughing Jasper Flint Creatures you control but don't own are Mercenaries in addition to their other types.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top X cards of target opponent's library, where X is the number of outlaws you control. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. or Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter First strike
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells you don't own or to activate abilities of permanents you control but don't own.
Whenever Nathan Drake attacks, exile the top card of each player's library. You may cast a spell from among those cards. deck, for instance, you’ll get access to red’s suite of Double Strike enablers. Since swinging with Embercleave Embercleave Flash
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature you control.
When Embercleave enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip {3} attached to Jhoira gets you two cards instead of one, things easily get out of hand here. Hell, you can even slap Blade of Selves Blade of Selves Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Equip {4} on Jhoira to really spiral out of control.

MTG Venser, Fervent Forger

At first glance, Venser, Fervent Forger feels a bit weak, since it only cares about your opponent’s spells and creatures. There’s still room for value, of course, grabbing relevant spells at instant speed and stealing massive creatures, but there’s a definitive cap. In red, too, it’s somewhat difficult to repeatedly abuse the enters effect, and as a Commander it’s not cheap.

Thankfully, while these are some pretty glaring downsides, the right card can turn Venser around. If your opponent has a Clone card, for instance, you can steal it, copy Venser, and get another activation and go infinite. So long as you’re in Izzet, at least, you can even engineer this situation, gifting a clone via Harmless Offering Harmless Offering Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control. .

MTG Niz-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

While many of the new legends within the Multiverse Reforged precons are unique and powerful, Niz-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel is nuts. By effectively negating life gain, you can turn it into card draw instead, and this Niv-Mizzet can always tap for a card himself. To put it lightly, this gets out of hand very quickly in a Lifegain-focused Commander deck, since there’s no cap.

Not only can cards like Soul Warden Soul Warden Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life. and Soul’s Attendant Soul’s Attendant Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life. provide tons of cards, but lifegain doublers turbocharge this strategy. With Allhammarret’s Archive, Boon Reflection Boon Reflection If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. , and Rhox Faithmender Rhox Faithmender Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. in play, you can draw your entire deck quickly. This can easily open up wins with Doctor Doom, Unrivaled Doctor Doom, Unrivaled Lifelink
{T}: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game. (You win even if you have 0 life or didn't draw a card.) if you’re careful.

Notably, this isn’t the only combo that Niz-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel has access to, as it goes infinite with Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life. . With Niz-Mizzet starting the loop, you can draw a card of her life gain, to then gain more life from Sheoldred. Since you can then lose this life to draw more cards, you can keep going till you deck yourself. As long as you jump through some hoops first, you can do the same with Starving Revenant Starving Revenant When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. , making Niz-Mizzet worryingly consistent.

MTG Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned

In another wild twist for the Multiverse Reforged precon, Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned cares about the Monarch. While technically Ginger, Queen of Sweets Ginger, Queen of Sweets When Ginger enters, you become the monarch.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Ginger: You gain 6 life.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a Gingerbrute token. (It's a {1} 1/1 Food Golem artifact creature with haste, "{1}: This token can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste," and "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") , does the same for a bizarre sub-theme, it’s really not well supported. If anything, it feels like Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned was a unique design that was made to be cut from this precon and brewed around separately.

On her own, or in a more focused Monarch-based deck, Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned is very powerful. By shutting down creatures that steal the monarch from you, or even attempt to, Tamiyo has unique built-in protection. If something does get through, she’s also very good at taking the Monarch back with Flying and Double Strike.

Sadly, since Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned doesn’t really do much with the Monarch, she’s not the best Commander for the archetype. Still, this card will definitely have a home in Queen Marchesa Queen Marchesa Deathtouch, haste
When Queen Marchesa enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent is the monarch, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and haste. decks going forward.

MTG The Ur-Sphinx

Despite having a powerful Eminence ability and being a clear homage to The Ur-Dragon The Ur-Dragon Eminence — As long as The Ur-Dragon is in the command zone or on the battlefield, other Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Flying
Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack, draw that many cards, then you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield. , The Ur-Sphinx feels very strange. Technically, yes, it is powerful for a Sphinx Typal deck, but it not being five-color feels like a very odd choice. Hell, given Wizards now has Rulebreaker abilities in their toolbox, it’s surprising one hasn’t been used here.

Outside of this color faux pas that stops you from playing all the new Sphinxes, The Ur-Sphinx is actually pretty strong. Not only do you get a solid cost-reduction ability, but when you go wide, you can easily mill opponents down. This also lets you steal cards from each opponent, making you a real force to be reckoned with.

MTG Ginger, Queen of Sweets

Much like Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned Flying, double strike, haste
When Tamiyo enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you while you're the monarch, tap those creatures and put a stun counter on each of them. , Ginger, Queen of Sweets is much better in the 99 of existing decks. By creating Gingerbrute Gingerbrute Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
{1}: This creature can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life. tokens during each upkeep, Ginger is definitely solid for archetypes like Monarch, tokens, and artifacts, especially since she comes with The Monarch herself. In this deck, Ginger mostly appears to be an expensive token generator for Jace’s Polymorph ability, so it’s likely better used elsewhere. That said, because she can create a board out of nothing, this card will likely play much better than it looks in focused strategies.

MTG Memnarch, the Warden

As the most mana-intensive card in the Multiverse Reforged precon, Memnarch, the Warden needs to do a lot. Given that its final ability offers potentially obscene amounts of card draw, it can definitely pull its weight. That said, to get the most out of it, you need to play an artifact-focused deck, which this precon isn’t.

Since Memnarch, the Warden does create a couple of Myr tokens on its own, you can fairly easily draw three cards when attacking. This, however, feels like nothing compared to the sky-high ceiling of this card. For better or worse, Memnarch feels like yet another card that’s better outside of this MTG precon, rather than in it.

MTG Teferi’s Reproach

Outside of the many multiverse-swapped legends, Multiverse Reforged also includes a couple of new non-legendaries. Darksteel Angel was revealed before, and it’s a very solid way to keep yourself alive. The same is also true for the new Teferi’s Reproach, which plays off the classic Teferi’s Protection Teferi’s Protection Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection. .

Curiously, while it’s able to effectively Phase Out someone for a turn, you can only use it on opponents. This not only makes it a potentially fantastic political tool, but it can also shut down win conditions. So long as your opponent is telegraphing something scary, you can use Teferi’s Reproach to stall them out, giving everyone else an extra turn.

MTG Turbulent Lands

To top off the Multiverse Reforged MTG precon, Wizards has also included three new Turbulent lands. Within the deck, you’ll find the Crater, Shore, and Wetlands Turbulent lands, which all do the same thing. As nice as it is to have this cycle complete, they’re by no means perfect.

Unless your opponents are ramping hard, it’s unlikely that these lands will be online before your third turn. Hell, if you went first or second, these lands enter tapped until turn four, which is incredibly rough when they do nothing else. With this in mind, you may want to cut these lands for more utility-focused tapped lands once it’s released.

MTG Multiverse Reforged Reprints

Finally, no MTG precon would be complete without a healthy suite of reprints, and Multiverse Reforged is no different. Within the 99, there are multiple heavy hitters, including Archfiend of Despair Archfiend of Despair Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.) at $24 and Flawless Maneuver Flawless Maneuver If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. at $21. Notably, while both of these cards have been reprinted before, they’re massive staples in Commander, so they could maintain much of their value.

The same should be true for Reflecting Pool Reflecting Pool {T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. , a fantastic land in multicolored Commander decks. Currently, a near-mint copy of this land runs about $15, which is a nice bump to the total value. Sadly, prices do fall off somewhat after this, but Archon of Cruelty Archon of Cruelty Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life. at $9 and Serra’s Emissary Serra’s Emissary Flying
As this creature enters, choose a card type.
You and creatures you control have protection from the chosen card type. at $7 aren’t terrible.

Even from these cards alone, you’re looking at $76 in reprints, well over the $49.99 asking price. Hopefully, this precon will help to bring some of these prices down, making the staples more accessible. Equally, it wouldn’t be surprising if copies of this deck at MSRP are hard to find, especially with how exciting some of the legends look.

All in all, the Multiversed Reforged precon is definitely weird. While it sort of has a Polymorph game plan of cheating big creatures into play, the payoffs are all over the place. Right now, it looks like this deck will need a substantial upgrade to be truly powerful, but hopefully it still plays well right out of the box.

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