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Fractured Identity

Sorcery

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Breaking News
Price
$0.37
EDHREC rank
#4550
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Fractured Identity card art
Fractured Identity exiles a permanent and hands a copy to every opponent — a removal spell that can backfire spectacularly if you're not in control of what gets distributed. The ceiling is absurd: pair it with Transcendence in a Zedruu the Greathearted shell and you hand opponents a card that kills them for having more than 30 life, which is exactly the kind of chaos Zedruu was built to weaponize.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zedruu the Greathearted

Zedruu the Greathearted

34.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Zedruu the Greathearted is the canonical home for Fractured Identity because the entire strategy revolves around donating harmful permanents — Fractured Identity does the donating automatically, bypassing the commander's tap ability entirely for a one-shot mass distribution.

02
The Tenth DoctorRose Tyler

The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler

32.0% of decks · synergy 0.29

The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler cares about your opponents controlling legendary permanents and doing unusual things, and Fractured Identity handing every opponent a copy of the same permanent creates exactly the kind of board state that triggers those edge-case payoffs.

03
Phelddagrif

Phelddagrif

23.5% of decks · synergy 0.22

Phelddagrif decks lean into group hug and political chaos, and Fractured Identity fits because giving every opponent a copy of something — ideally something harmless to you but disruptive to the board — is the exact flavor of symmetrical meddling the archetype wants.

04
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

16.3% of decks · synergy 0.14

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler shells want to equalize and destabilize without being the aggressor, and Fractured Identity's mass distribution turns a targeted removal spell into a political statement that keeps Kwain's pilot out of the crosshairs.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Fractured Identity is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer rules make distributing a copy to every opponent genuinely impactful, and the political and combo dimensions only exist when there are three or more opponents to receive the gift. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees essentially no play: five mana at sorcery speed for a removal spell is far too slow when those formats end games on turns one through three. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where Fractured Identity could function, but the smaller deck sizes and faster pace compress its ceiling considerably.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, Fractured Identity is deep bulk — low enough that there's no reason not to own copies if you're building any Azorius or Esper group-hug or chaos list. Bulk rares with narrow but dedicated homes tend to stay flat unless a new commander dramatically spikes demand, so don't expect movement, but at this price it's a no-hesitation pickup.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.