Last updated on September 15, 2026

Urban Utopia | Illustration by Jedd Chevrier
Reality Fracture‘s echoed pairs include a killer enchantment tutor with a wealth of synergies when built around: Pia, Aether Ascetic, a 3-mana 2/2 that enters and lets you discard a card to tutor an enchantment. It's basically the Formidable Speaker template for enchantments, except on an uncommon, in a victory for wallets everywhere. It's a prime build-around target for high-value enchantments.
Animate Dead + Dance of the Dead + Necromancy
The first place to look are reanimation auras like Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, and Necromancy as Pia can bin the Atraxa, Grand Unifier or other reanimation target and find the reanimation spell.
While Pia is too expensive for hyper-competitive reanimation decks, it does fine in Commander and Cube. The hardest thing about reanimation decks is balancing the three parts of the combo (a reanimation spell, a reanimation target, and a discard outlet). Pia compresses two of those slots into one card, making the combo easier.
Birthing Ritual + Chthonian Nightmare + Recurring Nightmare
Though Birthing Ritual belongs in very different decks than Chthonian Nightmare or Recurring Nightmare, the three cards benefit from Pia in similar ways: High-impact enchantments that are also sacrifice outlets in need of fodder. Pia can tutor them up and get sacrificed to them. The Nightmares can even recur Pia for even more shenanigans.
Omniscience
This is much more of a Standard synergy, but Pia works perfectly with Kona, Rescue Beastie as the primary to cheat effect for Omniscience with Abuelo's Awakening banned in Standard.
Pia provides much-needed consistency as a tutor and it comes down the turn before you need to play Kona. It could even give the deck a nice control angle with a toolbox of silver-bullet answers like Rest in Peace and removal like Seam Rip.
Flicker Enchantments
The synergy I'm most excited about in Commander involves flicker enchantments. Teleportation Circle and Thassa, Deep-Dwelling are the top of the pack because they just do the thing (plus curve nicely out of Pia), but there are many alternatives like Airbender Ascension, Astral Drift, Far Traveler…look, it's well-tread design space.
Play Pia, find your flicker engine, then flicker Pia to find more good stuff. You'll eventually move from flickering Pia to flickering whatever she finds, like Fear of Sleep Paralysis or Eidolon of Blossoms. Also, don't think this is restricted to just enchantress decks. If your basic flicker deck runs Thassa and another enchantment worth grabbing, consider running Pia as extra copies of those two key cards—I do something similar in my Galadriel deck with a Trinket Mage that only finds Conjurer's Closet and Riptide Gearhulk.
Tortured Existence
Pia finds Tortured Existence and puts a creature in the ‘yard to target with the activation, which is all you need to start popping off with gravebreak effects like Teval, the Balanced Scale or Syr Konrad, the Grim. Even if you don't establish that particular synergy or card, the decks running Tortured Existence are extremely interested in getting cards into the graveyard, so Pia's discard outlet is perfect.
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