Reality Shift
Commander 2017 91 • uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2017
- Collector number
- 91
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Howard Lyon
- Market price
- $0.31
What it does
Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Reality Shift was first introduced in the Fate Reforged expansion in 2015, representing a piece of magic from the Tarkir block. Its inclusion in the Commander 2017 preconstructed deck, specifically within the Arcane Wizardry list, brought this versatile removal spell to a wider audience of multiplayer players. The card exemplifies the color pie philosophy of blue, which typically lacks hard creature removal and instead relies on transformation effects to deal with problematic permanents.
The card was illustrated by Johannes Voss, a long-time contributor to the Magic: The Gathering art team. Voss utilized a surreal, ethereal aesthetic to capture the mechanical theme of the spell, where a creature is exiled and replaced by a manifested entity. The design has been widely praised by the community for its thematic resonance and its crucial utility in the Commander format, where it serves as one of the few ways for blue decks to exile an indestructible or difficult-to-target threat.
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