Oversimplify
Oversimplify: Sorcery, Secrets of Strixhaven Commander. Exile all creatures. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{G}{U}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Blue and green (UG)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
- Released
- 2026-04-24
- Collector number
- 322
- Artist
- Liiga Smilshkalne
- Commander rank
- 6,935 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Oversimplify
Oversimplify is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and green sorcery from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC), a Commander product released in April 2026. It is collector number 322 in that set, with art by Liiga Smilshkalne. It costs {3}{G}{U} (three generic, one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Commander 2021 (2021) to Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.26 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Exile all creatures. Each player creates a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and puts a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total power of creatures they controlled that were exiled this way.
"A fine example of addition by subtraction." -Deekah, professor of fractal theory
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Oversimplify by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Oversimplify
Oversimplify has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) #228 | Rare | 2024 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #90222 | Rare | 2021 |
| Commander 2021 (C21) #399 | Rare | 2021 |
| Commander 2021 (C21) #72 | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Oversimplify, newest first.
- Oversimplify counts the total power of the creatures as they last existed on the battlefield, not the power of those cards in exile.
- If a commander is exiled this way, its power will be counted along with the other creatures. Once Oversimplify finishes resolving, that commander's owner may move it to the command zone.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a blue and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Oversimplify is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.