Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
Legendary Artifact
, 
: Target opponent mills three cards. Put a land card from their graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. It gains "If this land would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."
, , Sacrifice Realmbreaker: Search your library for any number of Praetor cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.78
- EDHREC rank
- #3915
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree puts a mana-producing, graveyard-cheating artifact on the board that scales with every Praetor you can assemble — the payoff is enormous, but the five-mana investment and tribal dependency mean it does nothing in isolation. Pair it with Maskwood Nexus to make your whole board count as Phyrexians, or slot it into Valgavoth, Terror Eater where recurring threats from any graveyard turns the activated ability into a genuine win condition.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Valgavoth, Terror Eater is a Phyrexian demon, which means Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree's activated ability can pull it straight back from any graveyard — and in a deck built around recurring a massive flying threat, that redundancy is exactly what you want.
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind mills opponents as a matter of course, and Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree's ability to put creatures from any graveyard onto the battlefield converts that milling into a direct threat-generation engine.
Gogo, Master of Mimicry
Gogo, Master of Mimicry cares deeply about creature types, and Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree both fuels that synergy by pulling Phyrexian-typed bodies from graveyards and produces the colored mana Gogo needs to keep copying them.
Sméagol, Helpful Guide
Sméagol, Helpful Guide mills libraries as its core function, steadily loading up all graveyards with creatures — Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree converts that incidental mill into a recruitment tool, grabbing the best bodies opponents have lost.
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles every mill trigger, which means graveyards fill twice as fast and Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree has a deeper pool of creatures to steal and deploy onto your side of the battlefield.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree actually gets to do its job — multiplayer games run long enough to activate it, Phyrexian-tribal and graveyard-synergy decks are common, and the political weight of stealing from any opponent's graveyard is a genuine resource advantage. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but has seen essentially no competitive play; the mana cost and narrow tribal requirement make it difficult to justify over faster, less conditional threats. Legacy and Vintage have access to it on paper, but neither format has a shell that wants a five-mana artifact with a tap ability. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where it might see fringe use, specifically in Praetor-themed lists where the signature spell can set up the graveyard.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Realmbreaker, the Invasion TreeMaskwood Nexus
Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
View on Commander Spellbook ↗
Realmbreaker, the Invasion TreeArcane Adaptation
Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
View on Commander Spellbook ↗
Rukarumel, BiologistRealmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
View on Commander Spellbook ↗
Realmbreaker, the Invasion TreeConspiracy
Put all creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.78 bulk tier
At $0.78, Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree is firmly bulk — low enough that there's no financial barrier to picking one up for any deck it fits. Bulk rares with a specific tribal home tend to stay in this range unless a breakout deck pushes demand, so treat it as a cheap role-player, not a spec target.
Explore
Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.