The Reality Chip

Gameplan

Get The Reality Chip onto the battlefield early, Reconfigure it onto a creature, and start casting spells and playing lands directly off the top of your library for relentless card advantage. You grind opponents out with superior resources, then close with a value engine, big payoff, or an unanswerable combo while your top-of-library access lets you dig past dead cards.

Key Cards

• Sensei's Divining Top — Lets you control and replace the top card so The Reality Chip always casts something useful.
• Brainstorm — Stacks the perfect cards on top to play directly off the library for free value.
• Mystic Sanctuary — Buys back key spells to the top where the Chip immediately recasts them.
• Future Sight — Doubles down on top-of-library casting and stacks redundancy with the Chip's effect.
• Aetherflux Reservoir — A mono-blue storm/lifegain payoff that turns the Chip's spell-chaining into a kill.

Upgrade Path

Add more top-deck manipulation (Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, Vampiric/Mystic tutors that set up the top) so the Chip never casts a dead card, and include cheap, hexproof or evasive hosts to keep it attached safely. Lean into fast mana (Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault) and a compact combo finish like Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal or Aetherflux Reservoir to convert the card advantage into wins. Round out with strong counterspell and protection density to survive while the engine runs.