Split Up
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Destroy all tapped creatures.
• Destroy all untapped creatures.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Price
- $2.00
- EDHREC rank
- #2198
Split Up taps all creatures your opponents control — a full-board freeze at instant speed for three mana. It's the premier engine piece in Hylda of the Icy Crown decks and a reliable tempo play everywhere else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hylda of the Icy Crown
Split Up is the ideal trigger for Hylda of the Icy Crown — tapping every opposing creature at once means a fistful of Hylda triggers off a single card, generating tokens, drawing cards, or countering spells all in one go.
Kros, Defense Contractor
Kros, Defense Contractor wants creatures tapped and goad payoffs stacked, and Split Up delivers a clean reset that keeps opponents' boards locked while Kros hands out counters and steers attacks away from you.
Shiko, Paragon of the Way
Shiko, Paragon of the Way rewards tapping creatures for value, and Split Up converts a single spell into a board-wide tap trigger that feeds Shiko's engine far more efficiently than one-at-a-time effects.
Katilda, Dawnhart Prime
Katilda, Dawnhart Prime decks often need to stall a faster table long enough to assemble their mana engine, and Split Up buys that window by freezing every attacker opponents control.
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil wants opponents swinging at each other, not at you, and Split Up taps out the creatures most likely to spoil a combat step while Marisi's goad clause handles the rest.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Split Up earns its slot as a repeatable-adjacent tempo piece — one card that neutralizes every opposing creature at once is the kind of rate that scales well in multiplayer, where board states routinely dwarf what three mana answers in one-on-one. Outside Commander, it's legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its ceiling in those formats is narrow: tapping all creatures is redundant when a single threat is usually the whole problem, and cheaper, more targeted interaction outcompetes Split Up at every point on the curve. The exception is Oathbreaker, where multiplayer dynamics bring it back in line with Commander value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.00 cheap tier
At $2.00, Split Up sits in the affordable staple tier — cheap enough to include without a second thought in any Hylda of the Icy Crown build or tap-matters shell. It's a build-around in a popular archetype with no functional reprint competing for the slot, so the price is unlikely to erode further.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.