Jace, Multiverse Architect leads Multiverse Reforged, the four-color Jace precon. Full decklist and every spoiled card. Releases October 02, 2026.
Reality Fracture was released on October 2, 2026.
Reality Fracture released on October 2, 2026. Many players search for it as Fractured Reality, but the official name is Reality Fracture. It is the climax of Magic's Jace-centered story arc. Jace Beleren, now calling himself the Theorist, has built the Echoverse: a reproduction of every plane in the Multiverse with the Phyrexians, the Eldrazi, and Nicol Bolas excised from history. Wizards' Planeswalker's Guide to Reality Fracture confirms the setting is Echoverse Arcavios, where Hexhaven Academy stands in for Strixhaven with five allied-color schools: Fatehold (WU), Theorix (UB), Stingerquill (BR), Konstrari (RG), and Vigorbloom (GW).
Reality Fracture ships a single Commander deck, and most players search for it as the Jace precon. Multiverse Reforged is a four-color (WUBR) 100-card deck led by Jace, Multiverse Architect, a five-mana planeswalker who can be your commander, with Nissa, Leyline Tamer as the featured second commander. Wizards published the full Multiverse Reforged decklist on September 17, 2026: 98 non-foil cards including 16 new-to-Magic cards, plus the two traditional foil borderless commanders, both new. The decklist is on the precon card below with a one-click Playtest in Playgroup Live button, and playrate, win rate, ELO, and average game length fill in once tracked games arrive.
The deck is a polymorph engine. Jace's +1 draws two cards and puts one on the bottom, and his −3 exiles a creature or planeswalker you control and reveals cards from your library until it hits a creature or planeswalker, which enters for free. Point it at a token from Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Martial Coup, Secure the Wastes, Grand Crescendo, Lingering Souls, or Shark Typhoon and the token becomes whatever the library offers: Darksteel Angel, Archon of Cruelty, Archfiend of Despair, Serra's Emissary, Overlord of the Mistmoors, or Memnarch, the Warden. Mass Polymorph, Synthetic Destiny, and Proteus Staff run the same trick at scale, Dack Fayden, Helping Hand reveals a creature per opponent and goads them, and Nissa repeats it once a turn on landfall while drawing a card per land.
The new cards are Echoverse versions of Magic's legends, most of them color-shifted. Avacyn, Angel of Horror is a black Angel with deathtouch that returns your dying nontoken creatures at end step. Ob Nixilis, the Ascended is a white Angel that destroys tapped creatures on entry. Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair is a black Pirate that steals historic permanents from the top of an opponent's library. Venser, Fervent Forger is a red flash creature that copies an opposing spell twice or an opposing permanent twice. Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel is an Orzhov Spirit Dragon that turns life gain into cards, Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned is a Boros monarch with double strike, and Omnath, Locus of the Void, Memnarch, the Warden, and Ginger, Queen of Sweets are colorless. The Ur-Sphinx carries eminence for Sphinx decks, and Teferi's Reproach phases out one opponent's board for a turn. Reprints include Akroma, Angel of Fury, Windcrag Siege, Brainsurge, Whirlwind of Thought, Skrelv's Hive, Sunfall, and a full run of Signets and Talismans over 31 lands with the four-color Turbulent lands.
One supply note from Wizards' September 11 announcement: the October 2 release date stands, and Play Boosters and Prerelease Packs are on schedule in every region, but Reality Fracture Commander decks are delayed in Asia-Pacific and may arrive after release. Collector Boosters are delayed in Asia-Pacific and in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Secret Lair Bundles in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The Foundations Commander Decks are not affected.
Five more Commander decks arrived on the same day under a different brand. The Foundations Commander Decks are single-color starter precons aimed at players new to Commander: Calling All Angels (Giada, Font of Hope), Keen Engineering (Sai, Master Thopterist), Wretched Ranks (Ghoulcaller Gisa), Reign of Dragons (Lathliss, Dragon Queen), and Tramplesaurus Rex (Ghalta, Primal Hunger). They are not part of the Reality Fracture product lineup and have their own spotlight page.
Recent expansions have shipped two to five Commander precons. Reality Fracture ships one. Lead designer Gavin Verhey has said the team chose a single deck built around the set's villain because players responded better to one distinctive deck than to a spread of decks repeating familiar themes.
That constraint is what produced the four-color WUBR identity, a combination Commander precons almost never use. Verhey also noted the Commander deck is where Wizards can print Echoverse characters who cannot appear in the main set, which requires cards in echoed pairs, including characters already dead in Magic's story.
The September 8 debut put the echoed-pair design on the table. Chandra, Torch of Defiance is mirrored by the mono-blue Chandra, Chill of Compliance; Garruk, Curse Breaker by the mono-black Garruk, Veiled Butcher; Ajani Resolute by the mono-red Ajani Unrelenting; Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance by the mono-green Titanbones, Towering Heart; Ghalta the Unstoppable by the mono-white Ghalta the Immovable; and Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone by the mono-red Jiang Yanggu, Alone. Liliana appears as two legendary creatures, Liliana the Faultless and Liliana the Repentant, Karn as two artifact Golems, Karn, Gilded Guardian and Karn, Argent Defender, and Jace's own main-set card is the mono-blue planeswalker The Theorist, Jace Beleren. The debut also revealed the set's new mechanic, Empower Jace, which puts loyalty counters on a Jace planeswalker token, and the five elder sphinxes who founded Hexhaven's schools, each a legendary creature in its school's two colors. The five allied-color slow lands from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow return at rare. Collector treatments include shattered mirror cards, facet foils, and a serialized Bloodline Recollector limited to 500 copies, illustrated by Mark Poole and found only in English Collector Boosters.
Set codes on Scryfall: FRA (main set) and FRC (Commander precons). Card previews ran September 8 through September 17, the story began August 31, 2026, prerelease events ran September 25 through October 1, 2026, and the set arrived on MTG Arena on September 29. The Reality Fracture card list is a card image gallery of every spoiled card, updated daily from Scryfall and covering both FRA and FRC.
Hexhaven Academy is the Echoverse counterpart of Strixhaven, built into the Theorist's Tower on Echoverse Arcavios. Where Strixhaven's colleges were enemy-color pairs, Hexhaven's five schools are allied pairs, each founded by an elder sphinx that emerged from the leyline confluence beneath the tower. Cadets train as battlemages rather than scholars, because the wasteland surrounding the tower, the Eradia, is crawling with mage hunters and witchstalkers.
Fatehold (WU) is the School of Future History, teaching divination and prophecy. Theorix (UB) is the School of Esoteric Mathematics, bending reality with arcane equations and portals. Stingerquill (BR) is the School of Painful Words, training battlepoets and curse-writers. Konstrari (RG) is the School of Constructive Arts, animating puppetbeasts with crystallized heartwood. Vigorbloom (GW) is the School of Invasive Healing, grafting plant matter directly into flesh. Each school has a spoiled hybrid-mana card confirming its colors: Prudent Fateseer, Paradox Shaper, Stingerquill Voxmancer, Woodwork Prodigy, and Vigorbloom Vanguard.
The five founding sphinxes are all mythic legendary creatures, so each school has a ready-made commander. Denzilore Fatehold (WU) has flash and puts a +1/+1 counter on each of your creatures whenever you scry or surveil. Uldaros Theorix (UB) exiles one nonland card of each type from your graveyard on entry and casts copies of them for free up to six total mana value. Ingris Stingerquill (BR) pings each opponent whenever one of your creatures attacks and makes 2/2 Cadet tokens with haste. Aerid Konstrari (RG) creates Heartwood mana artifacts on entry and death, then grows with your artifact count. Kwia Vigorbloom (GW) makes a Lotus token once per turn whenever you gain life, which sacrifices for three mana of one color.
Prepared debuted in Secrets of Strixhaven and returns in Reality Fracture. A Prepared card has a creature face and a spell face. While the creature is prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell, and doing so unprepares it. The creature stays on the battlefield either way, so the mechanic is a repeatable spell engine attached to a body.
Wizards' mechanics article spells out how the copy works: when the creature becomes prepared, a copy of its spell appears in exile, you cast it like any other spell, and the copy ceases to exist if the creature leaves the battlefield or becomes unprepared. Only one copy exists per prepared creature at a time.
Spoiled cards prepare in three different ways. Prudent Fateseer, Vigorbloom Vanguard, Diviner of Victory, and Pompous Battlemage enter the battlefield prepared. Paradox Shaper, Stingerquill Voxmancer, and Woodwork Prodigy become prepared at the beginning of your upkeep if they are not prepared already. Bloodline Recollector becomes prepared at the beginning of each end step if three or more creatures died that turn.
Empower Jace is the set's new mechanic, and it appears in every color. Empower Jace N means: put N loyalty counters on a Jace planeswalker token you control. If you do not control one, first create a blue Jace planeswalker token with "−1: Surveil 1" and "−3: Draw a card", then add the counters. The token is not legendary, so anything that copies tokens can give you more than one.
The numbers scale from Empower Jace 1 on cheap spells like No Admittance and Countersculpt to Empower Jace 8 on Jace's Machinations, and the token pays off with cards that give planeswalkers extra loyalty abilities: Way of the Cryomancer adds a −3 that copies your next instant or sorcery, Way of the Pyromancer adds a +1 for red mana, and Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes adds a −10 that puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature per land you control. A few cards also ask you to behold a Jace, which means choosing a Jace you control or revealing a Jace card from your hand, as on Countersculpt and the Theorist's Sanctum land.
Prerelease events ran September 25 through October 1, 2026 at WPN game stores, the week before the set's October 2 release. Each Prerelease Pack contains six Reality Fracture Play Boosters, a traditional foil promo card, a deck box, and a Spindown die.
The format was Sealed: build a 40-card deck from your six boosters plus basic lands provided by the store, then play a few short matches. Prerelease was also the first chance to open echoed pairs, which appear in every Play Booster.
Two things changed with this release. Wizards retired At-Home Prerelease kits globally, so Reality Fracture Prerelease was an in-store event, and Two-Headed Giant teams now receive one Prerelease Pack plus two Play Boosters instead of two Prerelease Packs.
WPN stores run a full event season from release through November 5, 2026. Two Commander Party windows are scheduled, October 9 to 15 and October 23 to 29, with one event per window and Crystal Ball as the Commander promo. Two-Headed Giant Commander Night runs monthly across the same season and carries the same Crystal Ball promo.
The rest of the calendar is constructed and limited. Store Championship runs October 9 through November 5, with promos still to be announced. Magic Presents: Reality Echoes runs October 16 to November 5 and awards a Reality Fracture set symbol pin to winners. Magic Presents: All Leylines' Eve runs October 30 to November 5 with Leyline of Anticipation as the participation promo. Standard Showdown is weekly with Tragic Trajectory as the winner promo, and Magic Academy sessions for Learn to Play and Deck Building run unlimited through the season.
Card previews ran from September 8 through September 17, 2026, finishing before the September 25 prerelease. Wizards published the full schedule in Where to Find Reality Fracture Previews.
The official Reality Fracture Card Image Gallery is complete. The Reality Fracture card list here reads Scryfall and covers both FRA and FRC, newest first.
Draft Night is a four-player draft kit built for the Pick-Two format, where each player drafts two cards at a time instead of one. The box holds 12 Reality Fracture Play Boosters, 1 Collector Booster, 90 non-foil basic lands, 10 double-sided tokens, and a draft insert that walks the table through setup.
Card data sourced from Scryfall
Four-color (WUBR) polymorph deck. Make tokens with Elspeth, Martial Coup, and Secure the Wastes, then swap them for Darksteel Angel, Archon of Cruelty, or Serra's Emissary from the library with Jace's −3, Mass Polymorph, Synthetic Destiny, and Proteus Staff, while Nissa repeats the trick on landfall.
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The full card list, sorted newest-first. Updated daily from Scryfall.
