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A newly revealed Reality Fracture card has created a compact combo around the largely forgotten Kasmina, Enigma Sage. Jace’s Machinations empowers Jace for eight and permits loyalty abilities to be activated at instant speed for the turn. Kasmina’s static ability gives every other planeswalker her loyalty abilities, so the fresh Jace token can immediately use Kasmina’s minus-eight ultimate.
That ultimate casts a blue instant or sorcery from the library without paying its mana cost. Enter the Infinite is the direct payoff: it draws the deck down to one card, after which free mana such as Mox Amber or Lotus Petal enables Thassa’s Oracle. Because Machinations grants instant-speed loyalty activation, the line can be initiated at an opponent’s end step.
The most immediate competitive question is Pioneer. A Llanowar Elves opening can put Kasmina into play early enough for a turn-three attempt, and both cards are legal in the format. Modern offers more efficient disruption, including Orcish Bowmasters and Clarion Conqueror, making the shell a less obvious fit there.
Oathbreaker may be the most extreme application: Kasmina can sit in the command zone with Jace’s Machinations as the signature spell, placing the two essential pieces in guaranteed access. No tournament adoption exists yet, so this is a newly enabled strategy rather than an established metagame trend, but the combination is concrete, reproducible and immediately relevant during Reality Fracture previews.
That ultimate casts a blue instant or sorcery from the library without paying its mana cost. Enter the Infinite is the direct payoff: it draws the deck down to one card, after which free mana such as Mox Amber or Lotus Petal enables Thassa’s Oracle. Because Machinations grants instant-speed loyalty activation, the line can be initiated at an opponent’s end step.
The most immediate competitive question is Pioneer. A Llanowar Elves opening can put Kasmina into play early enough for a turn-three attempt, and both cards are legal in the format. Modern offers more efficient disruption, including Orcish Bowmasters and Clarion Conqueror, making the shell a less obvious fit there.
Oathbreaker may be the most extreme application: Kasmina can sit in the command zone with Jace’s Machinations as the signature spell, placing the two essential pieces in guaranteed access. No tournament adoption exists yet, so this is a newly enabled strategy rather than an established metagame trend, but the combination is concrete, reproducible and immediately relevant during Reality Fracture previews.
Original source: New MTG Spoiler Creates 2-Card Turn 3 Death Combo With Forgotten Planeswalker ↗MTG Rocks