Is Megaton's Fate good in Commander?

Megaton's Fate

Sorcery

Choose one —
• Disarm — Destroy target artifact. Create four Treasure tokens.
• Detonate — Megaton's Fate deals 8 damage to each creature. Each player gets four rad counters.

CMC: 6
Mana cost
Color identity: R
Rarity: rare
Set: Fallout
Price: $0.31
EDHREC rank: #8884

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Megaton's Fate lands as a board-altering effect at a cost that specialized commanders can exploit for repeated value. Dogmeat, Ever Loyal runs it as a core engine piece, and Naru Meha, Master Wizard can copy it to compound the impact — anywhere else, it's a fair-to-middling include.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal

38.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal appears in over 38% of lists for good reason — Megaton's Fate feeds directly into the Junk counter and Aura/attachment synergies that Dogmeat, Ever Loyal is built to exploit, making it one of the deck's most reliable value engines.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	not legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is the natural home for Megaton's Fate — the multiplayer environment gives its effect enough targets to justify the slot, and synergy commanders like Dogmeat, Ever Loyal push it from playable to powerful. It's technically legal in Legacy and Vintage, but neither format has any reason to register it over faster, more reliable options. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground where the tighter game state can make a single well-timed Megaton's Fate swing a game, though its ceiling there is lower than in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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