First printed in Reality Fracture (2026)

All 2 prints

Reality Fracture (FRA) #366, 2026
Reality Fracture (FRA) #68, 2026

Terminal Criticism

Instant

Destroy target creature or planeswalker that's blue or red. You gain 1 life.

Prismari believed art was in the eye of the beholder. Hexhaven was a harsh critic.

Illustrated by: Borja Pindado

Legality

Legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in: Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH

Prices

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Terminal Criticism in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Reality Fracture (FRA), Premier Draft	52.6%	-2.8	+2.3	907

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

Standard In 83 of 1825 decks (4.5%), most in Dimir Midrange

Share of decks

4.5%

▲ 4.4 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

0 main, 83 sideboard

Avg. copies

–

in the main deck

Win rate

57%

8 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Dimir Midrange	10.5%	1%
Orzhov Lifegain	9.4%	2%
UB (unclassified)	9.0%	27%
BRG (unclassified)	8.1%	2%
WUBR (unclassified)	3.7%	4%
BR (unclassified)	2.8%	4%
UBR (unclassified)	2.1%	21%
BG (unclassified)	1.2%	57%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

Deck	Record
UB vtuberArmpits in Standard Challenge 32	7-2 78%
UB fingers1991 in Standard Challenge 32	6-2 75%
UB Scappie in Standard Challenge 16	5-2 71%
UBR vtuberArmpits in Standard Challenge 16	5-2 71%
BG Tuper in Standard Challenge 32	5-2 71%
UB peter780108 in Standard Challenge 32	5-2 71%
UB chagu in Standard Challenge 16	4-2 67%
UB VitorCarvalho01 in Standard Challenge 32	4-2 67%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
UBR vtuberArmpits, 29 Oct	2 side	#5 (top 8) of 36 5-2
UB Scappie, 29 Oct	1 side	#6 (top 8) of 36 5-2
UB Scappie, 29 Oct	1 side	#9 of 32 3-2
UB peter780108, 29 Oct	1 side	#11 of 32 3-2
Orzhov Lifegain DoctorofTime, 29 Oct	1 side	#13 of 32 3-2
UB EiJunCHN, 29 Oct	1 side	#17 of 32 2-3
UB chagu, 28 Oct	1 side	#6 (top 8) of 30 4-2
UB EiJunCHN, 28 Oct	1 side	#14 of 30 3-2

Pioneer In 2 of 609 decks (0.3%), most in BG (unclassified)

Share of decks

0.3%

▲ 0.3 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

0 main, 2 sideboard

Avg. copies

–

in the main deck

Win rate

–

0 top 8 (challenges only)