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The Reality Chip
Legendary Artifact Creature — Equipment Jellyfish · {1}{U} · Blue commander
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
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What The Reality Chip actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Static ability · restrictionAs long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
- Keyword · reconfigurereconfigure
What a The Reality Chip deck needs
Plays as top-of-library value (attach it). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- a creature to attach to and protect
- top-of-library manipulation (Sensei's Divining Top, scry)
- cost reducers and cheap spells to chain off the top
The The Reality Chip deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- 10× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for The Reality Chip
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Sword of the Animist2 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Paradise Mantle0 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
- Archetype of Imagination6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Infiltrator's Magemark3 mana
- Student of Elements // Tobita, Master of Winds2 mana
- Deepchannel Mentor6 mana
- Levitation4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Icy Prison2 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with The Reality Chip
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Reality Chip is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- The Reality Chip + Sensei's Divining Top + Etherium Sculptor28,161 decks
- The Reality Chip + Sensei's Divining Top + Foundry Inspector22,194 decks
- The Reality Chip + Sensei's Divining Top + Cloud Key14,382 decks
- The Reality Chip + Displacer Kitten + Sensei's Divining Top9,768 decks
- The Reality Chip + Sensei's Divining Top + Jhoira's Familiar8,401 decks
- The Reality Chip + Sensei's Divining Top + Enthusiastic Mechanaut5,743 decks