Fractured Sanity
Sorcery
Each opponent mills fourteen cards.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $2.56
- EDHREC rank
- #1976
Fractured Sanity mills each opponent for thirteen on its own — cycle it and every opponent loses half their library at once for a single blue mana. That efficiency makes it a staple in mill-focused decks helmed by commanders like Captain N'ghathrod and a recurring nightmare for anyone running Doomsday Excruciator as a reanimation target.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Captain N'ghathrod
Captain N'ghathrod turns every milled creature into a theft opportunity, and Fractured Sanity dumps thirteen cards per opponent into graveyards at instant speed — more targets means more stealing. Running it with the cycling mode can effectively end the game by stripping entire libraries in a single turn cycle.
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles every mill trigger, which means Fractured Sanity's thirteen becomes twenty-six per opponent — and the cycling mode scales into near-lethal territory at once. Fractured Sanity is one of the cleanest reasons to build around Bruvac at all.
The Mindskinner
The Mindskinner rewards you for milling opponents with consistent damage and pressure, and Fractured Sanity hitting all three opponents in one cast generates an immediate storm of triggers. The cycling mode gives The Mindskinner decks a way to close games that have stalled out.
Phenax, God of Deception
Phenax, God of Deception is a tap-to-mill engine that benefits from spells filling in when creatures are tapped out or unavailable, and Fractured Sanity covers all three opponents in one shot at instant speed. It patches the gaps in Phenax's turn-by-turn grind when you need a sudden burst.
Saruman of Many Colors
Saruman of Many Colors copies instants and sorceries you cast, so Fractured Sanity cast through his trigger doubles the mill across the board without extra mana investment. The overlap is narrower than dedicated mill commanders, but the cycling mode still cycles for value in slower games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fractured Sanity is a staple — hitting all opponents simultaneously for thirteen is a bargain at three mana, and the cycling mode is one of the most mana-efficient mass-mill effects in the format. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees occasional play in dedicated mill shells, though those formats move too fast for a three-mana sorcery to anchor a strategy on its own. Modern mill is where Fractured Sanity earns its reputation outside Commander: it fuels aggressive mill lists alongside Hedron Crab and Archive Trap, and the cycling mode is a legitimate game-winning line. Pioneer and Standard don't have access to it, which concentrates its competitive presence in the older formats where mill has enough supporting pieces to be viable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Doomsday ExcruciatorFractured Sanity
Infinite mill; Near-infinite self-mill
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Current price
$2.56 cheap tier
At $2.56, Fractured Sanity sits in the cheap tier and punches well above that price point given its inclusion rate in mill commanders across Commander, Modern, and Legacy. It's a staple in multiple formats with no functional replacement at the same cost, so the price is stable — there's no reason to expect it to drop meaningfully while mill remains a real strategy.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.