Case of the Shattered Pact
Enchantment — Case
When this Case enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
To solve — There are five colors among permanents you control. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gains flying, double strike, and vigilance until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #11366
Case of the Shattered Pact puts a free 3/3 token on the board the turn it resolves, and if you can satisfy the solve condition — having five or more differently named permanents among your creatures and enchantments — it becomes a repeating token factory. Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor builds toward that threshold naturally, making this a two-mana enchantment that earns its slot without asking much in return.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Case of the Shattered Pact is legal across every major constructed format but lives almost entirely in Commander, where the singleton rule makes its solve condition easy to hit and the token generation compounds over a long game. In Standard and Pioneer it competes against enchantments that do more with less, and the two-turn delay before the engine fires is punishing at those tables. Modern and Legacy are simply too fast — a two-mana do-nothing-immediately enchantment doesn't survive the speed of those formats. Commander is where Case of the Shattered Pact finds its home, particularly in enchantress or go-wide builds where reaching five distinctly named permanents is a baseline expectation rather than a stretch goal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Pearl-Ear, Imperial AdvisorCloudstone CurioFaceless OneCase of the Shattered Pact
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count; Put all basic lands from your library into your hand
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Pearl-Ear, Imperial AdvisorCloudstone CurioUgin's MasteryCase of the Shattered Pact
Infinite storm count; Put all basic lands from your library into your hand
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Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Case of the Shattered Pact sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without a second thought. Bulk enchantments with narrow commander applications rarely climb unless a high-profile deck drags them up, so treat this as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.