Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens
Legendary Creature — Spirit
Flying
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, create a 3/3 white Spirit creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #12023
Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens floods the board every time you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell — two 3/3 flying Spirit tokens per trigger is a rate that snowballs fast in any deck that's casting those spells anyway. The cost is the mana investment: six mana for a 3/4 that does nothing the turn it arrives means King of the Oathbreakers and similar token-payoff commanders are the only homes where Oyobi reliably earns that slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers is the natural home — its passive buffs every Spirit you control, so the pair of 3/3 flyers Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens generates on each Spirit cast arrives already larger and swings the board immediately.
Millicent, Restless Revenant
Millicent, Restless Revenant builds a Spirit army on the back of other creatures dying, and Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens layers on top by minting tokens whenever you cast your Spirits rather than waiting for combat — the two triggers stack the battlefield faster than either does alone.
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 |
Commander is the only format where Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens is genuinely competitive — the 100-card singleton environment gives Spirit and Arcane strategies enough density to trigger it multiple times a game, and the longer game length means the six-mana investment actually pays off. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but purely unplayable; the format speed means a six-mana do-nothing-on-entry legend is dead on arrival against the decks that define those environments. Oathbreaker is the other format worth noting — Spirit-tribal Oathbreaker builds are a real niche, and Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens can slide in as a signature spell target in a pinch, though the reduced starting life and faster pace push you toward cheaper payoffs first.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.