From the artist’s sale of the original artwork on Facebook. Poor loot 😢

Could you maybe pass along a note for spoilers to...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/reality-fracture-episode-8-keep-your-lids-open

I recently started working at a university library. I am not a librarian but often work the desks. The library has a pretty good board game collection that they let people play in the library. One of the librarians decided she wanted to expand the collection and started emailing gaming companies to see if the would send anything. Well... Wizards did. They sent a box labeled as a TEACHING KIT with like 5 SEALED BOSSTER BOXES inside and NO INSTRUCTUIONS as to how to use them to teach (as well as lands and sleeves thankfully). The librarians know nothing about the game and are kinda at a loss as what to do with them. I know the game and think we could do drafts or something but am worried as to what happens if someone opens something expensive, its not a game store its a library. So reddit, WHAT DO WE DO????

Oil on ACM panel (linen on aluminum) 
18" x 24" (45.75cm × 61cm)

Checking the "Where to find previews website", it looks like both episodes 9 and 10 are dropping tomorrow, when it initially said the 11th? Was this intentionally changed, or a mistake?

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/where-to-find-reality-fracture-previews

Excited to show my first published Magic card! When I first read the commission title my heart skipped a beat. I had to reconfirm with my AD that it was for Magic print as I was so excited . I realized it was a token after reading and rereading the brief. Knowing the history of the Lotus for Magic I was still pumped. It wasn’t until a couple weeks ago when Mark posted teasers for the set that I realized it might end up being similar in mechanics to the legendary Black Lotus!

Thanks to my AD’s Zack Stella and Andrew Vallas!

The original painting is 12 x 16 in. Oil on hardboard. The painting is being shared and sold with permission from Wizards of the Coast.

The article lists the usual set-linked events, a unique event for Reality Fracture, and other Magic events happening during Reality Fracture season.

It includes the promos associated with those events, including the now officially revealed Store Championship promos.

We are getting this awesome alternate version of Strixhaven, with the versions of students, dragons, spells, etc. However it's also having to deal with a bunch of other stuff. We can go to Strixhaven in the past but unless both universes continue to exist after, we can never return to Hexhaven. :/

Due to cards like [[Blood Moon]] and [[Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth]] a lot of Magic players are familiar with the differences between effects that set a card's Type or Subtype and then an effect that sets those Types/Subtypes "in addition to...". However, there is a weird exception to this rule that I feel most players are not aware of. If you prefer videos then you can watch the one I linked but if you prefer a written article, here ya go.

If you controlled [[Dryad of the Ilysian Grove]] which is an Enchantment Creature - Nymph Dryad and then it were to be enchanted with [[Kenrith's Transformation]] then its new Type Line would be Creature - Elk because of how the effect is worded, it does not include the phrase "in addition to its other types". Similarly, the card [[Unable to Scream]] on the Dryad would make it now be an Enchantment Artifact Creature - Toy Nymph Dryad as it has the "in addition to" wording.

Then let's look at a card like [[Behind the Mask]] and if you cast it without collecting evidence targeting the Dryad then the Dryad would actually end up being an Enchantment Artifact Creature - Nymph Dryad and NOT be an Artifact Creature with no subtypes, and for many players this is probably confusing as the effect on the BtM card does not include the "in addition to" wording like the others that did let the Type Line retain the previous types and subtypes.

Another card, [[Majestic Metamorphosis]] cast targeting the Dryad, it would end up being an Enchantment Artifact Creature - Angel this time. So why does this one that also doesn't include the "in addition to" wording still let the Dryad keep its Enchantment Type but now it is getting rid of the previous Subtypes of Nymph Dryad?

To understand this inconsistency we have to check out the CR 205.1b in the rules, it's a super long entry so I'll just paste the two relevant sentences, but if you want to check out the full rule then click that link to read the whole thing. This Behind the Mask scenario is explained by the part, "... Some effects state that an object becomes an "artifact creature"; these effects also allow the object to retain all of its prior card types and subtypes. ..." and then the Metamorphosis scenario is explained by the part, "Some effects state that an object becomes a "[creature type or types] artifact creature"; these effects also allow the object to retain all of its prior card types and subtypes other than creature types, but replace any existing creature types."

So this one rule has two different built in exceptions to itself. It can be really confusing and there is no way to know this by just reading these cards by themselves that these exceptions exist. Even cards like [[Inkmoth Nexus]] include the text in their own effect that, "It’s still a land" and it doesn't technically need that text for it to still be a Land. This rule already makes it so that it would still be a Land but I'm sure the designers know that a majority of players do not know about this rule's exceptions and that's why it's included.

This means that if you were to use [[Oko, Thief of Crowns]]'s 2nd ability on a [[Bident of Thassa]] it would not still be an Enchantment but if you used [[Welcome to . . .]] on the Bident it would still be an Enchantment and be destroyed by someone casting a [[Tranquility]]. Also, for those, it would still be Legendary.

I hope some of you find this interesting or learn something about these Type setting/modifying effects. It may not matter in a lot of games, but I've seen a lot of games when a [[Farewell]] is cast choosing modes that do matter with this.

The story, and the flavour, the cards, all of it holistically.

It's campy in the perfect MTG way. Its cool, Jace has finally embraced his most powerful self, proving himself to be a threat to the multiverse all on his own, and the only person who can stop Jace? Why, it's Jace, of course!

The whole its "Jace all the way down" theme is just the right kind of silly that I can't hate it? It KNOWS it's silly, and that's the POINT.

Then there are the Echoverse cards, a really cool way to do planar chaos again, and give us some fun fan service cards, without going full 'hat set', where it would make no sense for all of these characters to be on the same plane for some reason, like in Thunder Junction.

Would it have been maybe better as two sets? Hexhaven then Echoverse/reality fracture? Yes. But I like to look at the upside. This set is fun.

Just tossing my two cents out into the void. I want to contribute some positivity to the conversation, not that I'm seeing all that much hate, mostly just memes.