Wild New Reality Fracture Elemental Stacks Colorless Mana For Brutal Instant Wins

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 Thran Dynamo {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. and Scorched Ruins Scorched Ruins If this land would enter, sacrifice two untapped lands instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}. . Colorless mana doublers like Forsaken Monument Forsaken Monument Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life. and Ultima, Origin of Oblivion Ultima, Origin of Oblivion Flying
Whenever Ultima attacks, put a blight counter on target land. For as long as that land has a blight counter on it, it loses all land types and abilities and has "{T}: Add {C}."
Whenever you tap a land for {C}, add an additional {C}. are great here too, especially with Doubling Cube Doubling Cube {3}, {T}: Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have. 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 Tomb Ancient Tomb {T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you. s worth of mana with every drop. Colorless Fetchlands like Fabled Passage Fabled Passage {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land. 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 Crucible of Worlds You may play lands from your graveyard. can let you reuse. To support this land package, tutors like Urza’s Cave Urza’s Cave {T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. 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 Cloak Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2} and Brotherhood Regalia Brotherhood Regalia Equipped creature has ward {2}, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked.
Equip legendary creature {1}
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.) 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 Excalibur, Sword of Eden This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total mana value of historic permanents you control. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Equipped creature gets +10/+0 and has vigilance.
Equip legendary creature {2} and Genji Glove Genji Glove Equipped 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 Staff of Domination {1}: Untap this artifact.
{2}, {T}: You gain 1 life.
{3}, {T}: Untap target creature.
{4}, {T}: Tap target creature.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. and Endbringer Endbringer Untap this creature during each other player's untap step.
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
{C}, {T}: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.
{C}{C}, {T}: Draw a card. are great here, giving you options during opponents’ turns. Omnath is also fantastic alongside X spells like Walking Ballista Walking Ballista This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target. and Kozilek’s Command Kozilek’s Command Choose two —
• Target player creates X 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."
• Target player scries X, then draws a card.
• Exile target creature with mana value X or less.
• Exile up to X target cards from graveyards. , 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 Emrakul, the Promised End This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard.
When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
Flying, trample, protection from instants and Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents.
Indestructible
Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library. 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 Echoes of Eternity If a triggered ability of a colorless spell you control or another colorless permanent you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) , 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 PuPu UFO Flying
{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}: Until end of turn, this creature's base power becomes equal to the number of Towns you control. , Voltaic Construct Voltaic Construct {2}: Untap target artifact creature. , and Cloudstone Curio Cloudstone Curio Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand. .

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 Crumbling Vestige This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.) , this combo can net you infinite mana, or you can just wipe out the pod immediately with infinite damage from Sunscorched Desert Sunscorched Desert When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
{T}: Add {C}. .

If you’d rather get Omnath’s hands (claws?) dirty, it can also net you instant wins in combat with Super State Super State Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 9/9 and has flying, first strike, trample, and haste.
Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent. . 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 Grafted Exoskeleton Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever this Equipment becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent.
Equip {2} 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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