Pure // Simple

Commander is the natural home for Pure // Simple — enchantment-heavy boards and skies full of evasive threats are the norm at most tables, and a split card that handles both at instant speed is exactly the kind of catch-all utility that survives competitive metas. In Legacy and Vintage, the individual halves are too narrow and too expensive at sorcery speed to compete with dedicated answers, so Pure // Simple barely registers in those formats. Modern has access to cleaner, more efficient options for each effect individually, and the fused cost of five mana is too slow to matter. Where the card genuinely earns consideration is Oathbreaker, where the condensed 60-card format rewards modal cards that answer multiple threats on a single slot.