Clever New Devotion Creature Puts a Green Twist on Thassa’s Oracle

Last updated on October 13, 2026

Nylea's Oracle | Illustration by Xavier Ribeiro

Alchemy’s last hurrah before its death in early 2027 includes a green riff on Thassa's Oracle that uses digital-only mechanics to ask a bold question: How could you design a Craterhoof Behemoth-style mass pump effect on a 2-mana creature without breaking the game?

The resulting card is Nylea's Oracle, a 2-mana 3/1 that costs . When it enters, you conjure X copies into your library, with X being your devotion to green. If your deck ends up with more cards than you started with, your creatures get +X/+X and haste. For those unfamiliar with digital-only mechanics, conjure makes a completely new card in the appropriate zone. It’s like making a token copy, except the copy exists in zones other than the battlefield and it’s not considered a token.

While I’ve never been the biggest fan of Alchemy cards, this is a fascinating card. It almost makes me wish Alchemy would stick around.

Is Nylea’s Oracle Good In Brawl or Timeless?

Brawl and Timeless are both misses for Nylea's Oracle.

Brawl loves an efficient threat but the deck size is so big that I struggle to see it working. I’ll talk more about this in the next section, but having a small deck to draw the copies is important. You’re unlikely to end up with enough devotion to make waves, even if you draw it.

As for Timeless, this Oracle is too small-time. Timeless is where the strongest cards on Arena live. I really don’t see this centaur holding up to Reanimator, Sneak and Show, or Mardu Energy in any meaningful fashion.

Is Nylea’s Oracle Good In Historic or Alchemy?

Nylea’s Oracle is much more interesting in Historic and Alchemy. Well, with Alchemy’s sunset on the horizon, I guess the focus should be on Historic. While I can’t promise that Nylea's Oracle will be format-defining, I am curious about its potential as a threat in mono-green midrange or stompy.

The primary distinction between this and Thassa’s Oracle, or at least the one I want to focus on, is that Nylea's Oracle is not a combo card. You’re not winning off Doomsday or Tainted Pact or anything else that enables the blue wincon. You also probably aren’t just dropping it onto a board and winning. Rather, I think of it like a card to build an engine around.

Each Oracle you play adds two more to the deck (likely more, thanks to cards like Llanowar Elves and Old-Growth Troll). Over time, your deck will increasingly be filled with the Oracle. From there, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx uses all that devotion to ramp hard, and cards like The Great Henge and Beast Whisperer draw through your deck.

Even if you don’t build an engine around Nylea’s Oracle, they build off each other well. Since every Oracle out of your deck adds two, you’ll gradually add cards to keep the deck’s number high. Plus, in a dedicated devotion deck with cards like Old-Growth Troll and Cavalier of Thorns, this works as a cheap finisher or early threat. The real question facing Nylea’s Oracle is whether or not it’s worth flooding your decks with 3/1s for an eventual payoff.

Nylea’s Oracle and the rest of Alchemy: Reality Fracture release on MTGA on Tuesday, October 13, and will be immediately craftable and playable. Even though the Alchemy format is going away early next year, digital-only cards will remain on the platform and will continue to be playable in their respective formats.