Enlightened Confidant | Illustration by Denman Rooke
Reality Fracture has arrived, and now that the set’s fully spoiled, it’s time to take a look at the best white cards across all rarities. This crazy, idealized version of Jace’s perfect MTG Multiverse has a few outstanding white cards, including classic white characters, and even alternate versions of characters that were never white to begin with. We also have some juiced reprints in the Commander precon , so let’s dive in and see what this set has to offer for white decks.
What Are White Cards in Reality Fracture?
Rescue Girl, First Responder | Illustration by Cristi Balanescu
White cards in Reality Fracture are cards from Reality Fracture (FRA), Reality Fracture Commander (FRC), and the reprints in the Special Guests (SPG) list. These are cards with a mono-white color identity, so I’m not considering multicolor cards (gold or hybrid) with white on them.
Best Reprints and Bonus Sheet Cards
These two cards are absolute white removal staples, and almost every white Commander precon or MTG supplementary product has one or both of them. At this point, Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile are like Sol Ring in white Commander decks. Although they have Erode today as competition, these are excellent cards that see play in most 60-card formats and EDH/cEDH.
#7. Austere Command
Austere Command isn’t the auto-include white staple it once was, so to play this card you need to be interested in its modality. In EDH’s early days, it was a 6-mana superbomb, and now it’s merely good in the right decks. I’d say the best decks for this card are the ones that will opt for “destroy creatures with power 4 or greater” and “destroy all artifacts” as main modes.
#6. Martial Coup + White Sun’s Twilight
These two cards are very comparable, and we can say that White Sun's Twilight is an evolution of Martial Coup. Making a lot of tokens is nice, and many cards can generate X tokens, but here we get an additional wrath if X is high enough. White Sun can make artifacts that have toxic, so it can be a poison win condition, but the tokens can’t block, so that’s not all upside. Fortunately, decks interested in this kind of effect usually have room for both cards.
#5. Sunfall
Sunfall is easily one of the best white wraths. Exile all creatures, no questions asked, and you’ll also get a token that’s often big. Sunfall was format-defining in Standard, and that power carries over to Commander, too.
#4. Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
If you want a planeswalker that spams 1/1 tokens, look no further. Elspeth, Sun's Champion is expensive at 6, but it also has a wrath built in. It’s good when you have a strong board and want to push, but it’s also excellent when your opponents have all those 6/6 and 7/7 tramplers. If left unchecked, Elspeth has a pretty good ultimate for creature-heavy decks.
#3. Skrelv’s Hive
The white Bitterblossom, Skrelv's Hive makes 1/1 tokens every turn, and it can be powerful in poison/toxic decks. This card will also see play in proliferate decks, or in decks that care about the Phyrexian creature type.
#2. Overlord of the Mistmoors
Overlord of the Mistmoors is a titan-like creature that enters the battlefield as a 6/6, and you get two 2/1 fliers right away. It’s also the first time this card gets reprinted, and it’s still being played in Standard thanks to its lower, alternate impending cost.
#1. Flawless Maneuver
In terms of value, Flawless Maneuver is the most important white reprint, and the card could see even more play if it were cheaper. Protecting your creatures for free at instant speed is very strong, and many white Commander decks need to have their commander alive. Think about commanders like Kaalia of the Vast and how they tend to draw removal, or a deck built around the attack triggers of Voja, Jaws of the Conclave. Free spells don’t need much to be good, and this card is excellent.
Best New Cards
#19. Unflinching Hortimancer
Unflinching Hortimancer calls my attention because it’s the first Ajani's Pridemate type card printed at common. That opens up more possibilities for formats like Pauper.
#18. Refute Destiny
Refute Destiny is an excellent sideboard card, and getting to exile a green or blue creature or planeswalker with upside is super solid. Some metas will even allow you to run one in the main deck.
#17. Ghalta the Immovable
In decks that care about your creatures' toughness, Ghalta the Immovable will be a cheap 7/7 creature, costing something like 3 or 4 mana. Affinity for toughness, if you think about it. It’s also nice redundancy for the “dealing damage with toughness” deck, so you can follow a 0/5 with this and immediately attack for 5 damage.
#16. Danitha, Sword of Hope
Even with the limitation of once per turn, Danitha, Sword of Hope is solid. This card is pretty easy to trigger, and you should be drawing cards constantly. Whether you’re putting auras or equipment on, this card looks like a nice addition to Voltron decks or with commanders like Feather, the Redeemed.
#15. Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand is a nice “group hug” card, and whenever it enters play, you’ll give a goaded creature to every opponent you have. You can sometimes combine this with cards that let you recover all cards you control, like Homeward Path, for maximum benefits. You also get all the enters effects from these creatures as a bonus before giving them to your opponents.
#14. Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
Ob Nixilis, the Ascended enters play with a bang! You’ll probably destroy a lot of creatures, gain a bunch of life, and make an extra 4/4 angel in the process, so two creatures for you and a lot of losses for your opponents. Sunblast Angel was an okay card, and this is a much stronger version. The first place I imagine this card going is angel typal decks, but blue-white decks that rely on tap and untap shenanigans can also benefit from this card.
#13. Germinate Recruits
Many times, Germinate Recruits will sit in your hand, and you can’t even cast it, so this card needs to go into a heavy lifegain deck. You’ll want at least two tokens from your 3-mana investment. But the best aspect about this card is that sometimes, you’ll create 6+ 2/2 tokens for the same mana investment. In particular, EDH decks in which you can gain a lot of life in a turn, or decks that can give every creature you control lifelink can take advantage of it. This card can also slot in combo decks using Nourishing Shoal and Worldspine Wurm.
#12. Kindred Judgment
An easy way to turn the tables in MTG or outright win a game is to destroy all creatures but yours, and Kindred Judgment does that in many scenarios. Black already has access to Kindred Dominance, which gets played a lot. Between angels, soldiers, or humans, there’s no shortage of typal decks where this card can see heavy play.
#11. Way of the Mentor
Way of the Mentor is at its absolute best alongside planeswalkers that already gain life or create lifelinking tokens, like a bunch of Ajanis or Sorins do. Putting loyalty counters on all planeswalkers is a “free” proliferate trigger whenever you gain life. Now, all we need is a card like Soul Warden that can trigger each time we make a token, and we’ll have planeswalkers ultimating left and right.
#10. Gideon’s Memorial
Poor Intangible Virtue, see how you’ve been outclassed? Gideon's Memorial is a very strong version of an okay 2011 card that sees a fair amount of play, and the flexibility is huge. You can discard this card as a removal spell or even ramp planeswalkers, so instead of just standing there on the battlefield, you can use this white artifact to ramp to your Elspeths and Kayas.
#9. Return to the Light Realms
The black version of this card, Rise of the Dark Realms, sees a considerable amount of play. With Return to the Light Realms, you trade all the graveyards for all your nonland permanents. Yes, it requires that you have a filled graveyard, but the amount of strong stuff you can pull out with this card is huge.
#8. Ajani Resolute
Two-mana planeswalkers are nothing to scoff at, although Ajani Resolute doesn’t do too much on its own. You’re not happy about just gaining 1 life and a loyalty counter on a planeswalker, and it doesn’t even defend itself well. That said, even in current Standard, we have a very competent lifegain deck with the likes of Hinterland Sanctifier and Amalia Benavides Aguirre. That deck can gain 5-6 life each turn, and this new Ajani card can do some work in that shell.
#7. Loyal Tutor
It’s a white Vampiric Tutor, so what’s not to like? Unfortunately, Loyal Tutor only fetches planeswalker cards, which is very narrow, and ‘walkers aren’t used in combos the way sorceries, instants, or creatures are. Some scenarios where this can be good are in Doubling Season decks, or when you need to fetch Tezzeret the Seeker to pull together a win.
#6. Teferi’s Reproach
Teferi's Reproach is one of the weirder cards in Reality Fracture, and one I think is deceptively powerful. We all know Teferi's Protection, a white EDH staple that can protect you for a turn, but why would you want to do that to an opponent? You’re basically casting Silence for a turn, so it can stop some combos and powerful alpha strike turns. Some players pointed out that if you have Questing Beast, you can override the protection and try to alpha strike an opponent. It’s flexible enough that it will find a home somewhere and maybe become a format staple.
#5. Liliana the Faultless
People are usually willing to play vanilla 1/1 Soul Warden, so a juiced-up version in the form of Liliana the Faultless is bound to see play. We can also tap Lili and discard a card to add protection to our own creatures or planeswalkers, and there’s already a deck card in Standard that benefits from discarding cards, using threats like Marauding Mako and Iron-Shield Elf, not to mention the synergies with Cool but Rude.
#4. Repurposed Enforcer
This card is poised to see play, and it’s been pushed to do so. The only thing that’s holding Repurposed Enforcer back is that it needs to attack to be good, and you won't get anything if it eats a removal spell right away. But just empowering Jace 1 is a free surveil, and with more creatures you can start to draw cards.
#3. Lyra, Archangel of Dawn
Lyra, Archangel of Dawn is basically a smaller Archangel of Thune for angels only. But 3 mana for a 3/3 flier is cheaper than 5 mana for a 3/4 creature. That said, you’ll need extra sources of lifelink, which aren't hard to find in white decks. It will be fun to see those Collected Company decks reveal this and another angel while having a Soul Warden in play.
#2. Flickering Hound
Flickering Hound is like Displacer Kitten, only changing the card’s text to work with creature spells. This card powers up so many combos and adds consistency to decks that were already in the flicker plan. It’s easy to fill your deck with flash creatures for various combat tricks and shenanigans, but where this card really shines is by casting normal creatures that blink your commander, which then draws you a bunch of cards, or blinks your other creatures.
#1. Enlightened Confidant
Enlightened Confidant is the light counterpart to Dark Confidant, and this version is a little better just because you can trigger this creature in your end step. Dark Confidant is bad nowadays because you need to wait a whole turn to get extra cards, and you’ll also lose life. Meanwhile, Enlightened Confidant is faster, and while many cards on this list require lifegain to work properly, this one is okay even if you’re not gaining a bunch of life. I can see this card slotting in many decks across formats like Standard and Commander, and you don’t need to be afraid to play 7- and 8-mana cards in your deck.
Wrap Up
Saheeli, Consul of Oversight | Illustration by Billy Christian
The Echoverse version of MTG brings many powerful white cards and a heavy emphasis on lifegain. White’s got new exciting toys across all formats, as well as some juiced reprints, so I say it’s doing pretty well, on par with Reality Fracture’s other best colors. I predict these white cards can strengthen the already good lifegain deck in Standard, and maybe spawn a new tier 1.5 deck, especially after rotation. And white lifegain EDH decks are also eating good.
Do you agree with my list and rankings? Let me know what your favorite white Reality Fracture cards are in the comments section below, and for more on Reality Fracture, be sure to tune in to our YouTube channel, The Daily Upkeep.
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