Fracturing Gust
Instant
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. You gain 2 life for each permanent destroyed this way.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- From the Vault: Annihilation
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14725
Fracturing Gust wipes every artifact and enchantment off the table and gains you 2 life per permanent destroyed — against an Enchantress or Stax player, that can mean 20+ life in a single cast. The cost is real: five mana with double green and double white makes this a two-color commitment, but Treebeard, Gracious Host runs both and can blank prison pieces like Nine Lives before they lock anyone out.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Treebeard, Gracious Host
Treebeard, Gracious Host generates life as a resource, and Fracturing Gust is one of the highest-ceiling life-gain spikes in the format — nuking an artifact-heavy or enchantment-heavy board can swing Treebeard's counters and triggers dramatically while also clearing the biggest threats to a go-wide food strategy.
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 |
Fracturing Gust is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice. In Modern and Legacy, five mana is a steep ask for a sweeper that does nothing against creature-based strategies, and more targeted options exist at lower cost. Commander is where it earns its slot: multiplayer pods routinely feature two or three players with meaningful artifact or enchantment boards, turning Fracturing Gust into a mass removal spell that can also dome your life total to a safe number. Oathbreaker is the only other format where the card sees any meaningful play, and only in life-gain or enchantment-hate builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Nine LivesFractured IdentityFracturing Gust
Each opponent loses the game
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Current price
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Sources
Mentioned
- Nine Lives
- Treebeard, Gracious Host
- Fractured Identity
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.