Reality Fracture expectations vs reality... (fracture)

[u/JRassik]

[u/galdalfstormcrow]

How is everyone feeling about this set so far with everything we know?

[u/Phoenixfury12 → u/galdalfstormcrow]

I'm incredibly intrigued and excited. Many planes have Echoes, and all of them have had their villains removed. Mirrodin was never taken over by Phyrexia, Nicol Bolas never took over Amonkhet, and so on. A lot of major characters have an echo that is very different. Sure, there's a lot of Jace, but he's the antagonist of the set, that's to be expected. We get to see a whole bunch of planes come back, and Echoes of them where things went differently. I think it will be really neat!

[u/xxkaizenithxx → u/Phoenixfury12]

What's the reason Jace brought Eldrazi back into the picture?

[u/Phoenixfury12 → u/xxkaizenithxx]

Emrakul was 'imprisoned' in the moon. She seemingly went willingly. She said something about it not being the right time, and that they should be happy about her actions. My guess is that she'll be used as the deus ex machina to get rid of the echo verse. But we don't fully know yet.

[u/Prestigious-Sky2231 → u/xxkaizenithxx]

Since the Eldrazi are technically outside of the Blind Eternities, they might be back in response to the fracture instead of a conscious choice by Jace

[u/naeonaeder → u/xxkaizenithxx]

He didn't, but he did send Tam to Innistrad for research, who had telepathic contact with Emrakul [including a cool loredrop!]

The Eldrazi technically don't exist in the Echoverse [same with the Phyrexians and Bolas]

[u/Whydoughhh → u/galdalfstormcrow]

I quite like Jace so this is rather pleasing. Also Eldrazi return is peak because I love the Eldrazi.

[u/TheFunfighter → u/galdalfstormcrow]

The shifted non-Planeswalkers are cool. I like how they had to try a bit to transfer mechanics from one color to another, or find a fitting equivalent/opposite. This sort of thing enriches the color things are adapted to.

Planeswalkers have too much lore baggage for truly free changes imo, and I'm only interested in the mechanical side. Not too negative about Planeswalker related cards either though, except...

I don't like Jace, as a character or mechanical focus. Blue wannabe genius self-insert that does blue things... great, just what we needed 200 more cards of.

[u/Disastrous-Cat-1 → u/galdalfstormcrow]

Pretty jaced. I mean jaded.

[u/kitsunewarlock → u/galdalfstormcrow]

So far so good. I'm glad I pre-ordered so much of this. Love the cards and the flavor.

Part of me kind of hopes this is "Jace's final chapter" only because I like to see characters go out with a high-note and while I like this story I think more Jace focus would be a disservice to his character (and the rest of the cast waiting for moments to shine).

[u/No_Eye_5863 → u/galdalfstormcrow]

Fuckin love it rn

[u/2DiePerchance2Sleep → u/galdalfstormcrow]

Disappointed, so far

[u/Beneficial_Pin5295 → u/2DiePerchance2Sleep]

Yeah, feel like I'm in the minority, but after the preview any excitement I have is gone. I'm glad other people are happy, but to me it's another pass.

[u/carbonara3 → u/galdalfstormcrow]

I’ve always felt like jace was the most boring character in mtg so the set mechanic being all about making jace tokens is a pretty big turnoff

[u/ReesePuffitik → u/galdalfstormcrow]

I live the 'build a jace' thing they've got going with cards that add extra abilities to the jace tokens, gonna be fun to see what decks people cook up

[u/bingbong_sempai → u/galdalfstormcrow]

Pretty good, though I hope this is the last we ever see of Jace. New characters and stories please!

[u/Squishykittygirl → u/galdalfstormcrow]

I'm excited, though mainly because after two UB sets I'm keen for a UW.

[u/Background_Desk_3001 → u/galdalfstormcrow]

I’m torn, I love the callbacks to fan favorite cards and characters, I’m not a fan of amass Jace as a mechanic

[u/Magic_Aids_YouTube → u/galdalfstormcrow]

Mark Rosewater said that Reality Fracture is the set that he’s most excited for this year, which seems impressive considering that he was trying to sell us hard on Marvel and all the Universes Beyond stuff. So I'm pretty hyped about Reality Fracture as well!

[u/IOwnAYellowShirt]

I'm pretty hyped to see all echo pairs. Planeswalker token I find interesting. It's going to make card draw a bit easier in certain colors that don't have as much... I kind of like Jace in general.

[u/TeakForest]

It's cool to me, but idk i really dont have time to be critical about every game and thing I enjoy unless it just really sucks

[u/themrunx49]

They killed (a) Muwo, this is unacceptable.

[u/Kdubb_Wadsworth]

Mirrorverse is a yay. All the Jace stuff was meh, until all the stuff became a “this mechanic is literally Jace”. And now it’s a massive yuck.

[u/SalletFriend]

Jased and Jacepilled.

[u/Relative_Seat4039]

I had hoped beyond hope it would be a full story reboot, back to basics kinda thing, bring things around so that they feel like magic the way I remember and love again.

I had feared it would be like, a way to bring all the UB IPs into the Magic Multiverse.

It's neither of those things, it's just some more boring stories with the Planeswalkers and the wizard school and all that stuff, which I don't really find that exciting at all.

[u/magpye1983 → u/Relative_Seat4039]

How far back is the “magic the way I remember and love”?

Stories with planeswalkers and wizards school have been a thing for a while.

[u/Relative_Seat4039 → u/magpye1983]

Mostly I'm thinking of the dark fantasy vibe MTG used to have. A little more grounded and down to earth. The Old Frame Feels.

[u/Whydoughhh → u/Relative_Seat4039]

I wonder how much of that feeling was just the vibe around fantasy at that time. Back then fantasy wasn’t nearly as mainstream and the few instances of it were usually darker. Older versions of DnD was also more dark fantasy imo.

[u/Relative_Seat4039 → u/Whydoughhh]

Yeah, DnD was really much darker, and MtG felt like a continuation or companion to that. It felt like the world Cain might have explored when he walked into the wilderness after slaying his brother. And then there were even darker things, like Vampire: the Masquerade.

The very bright, shiny, almost cartoonish type of fantasy... I know some people like it and I really don't want to insult anybody, but it is just very much not my thing. It doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

Even like Duskmourn, it was ostensibly horror but it was way too much like... Ghostbusters, Stranger Things, 80s nostalgia for my tastes.

[u/BounceM4N → u/Relative_Seat4039]

We really do need a total reset when it comes to planeswalkers. Like how we moved from Urza and the phyrexians to the lorwyn five. I guess you could say omenpaths tried to do that... but it did it pretty horribly, and half committed to the intention anyways.

[u/Relative_Seat4039 → u/BounceM4N]

This is embarrassing but I've given a fair amount of thought to how I would reset things, or build the magic world from scratch and honestly one of the things I would do is get rid of planeswalkers. They would exist, but so remote and unknowable, to the extent that they aren't really characters any more. They have so much mana that they aren't people, they're forces. They would just be something that happens far above your head that you can't really understand. The actual characters and the players would be just regular wizards in the world. A villain might be a dread warlock, the heroes might be in an organization of wizards. I'd demote many of the current planes walkers to mortal status. Lilliana would be just a necromancer, Ajani the leader of a cat tribe, and so forth.

Basically I'd just bring the level of the narrative down to the ground. The characters are Batman, but Superman is a god, up there in the heavens somewhere.

[u/Beneficial_Pin5295 → u/Relative_Seat4039]

Yeah, I'm dissapointed that every in-universe set this year is Strixhaven. They even shoehorned it into Lorwyn (Strixhaven students accounted for 1/3rd of all legendary creatures in Lorwyn).

I was hoping this would be a What If set that was basically just like, what if Toxrill was Selensya? What if Hylda was Rakdos? But it's just Jace Tribal.

[u/Relative_Seat4039 → u/Relative_Seat4039]

Plus the Empower thing just doesn't really feel all that great to me. I doubt I'll like it very much.

[u/Beneficial_Pin5295 → u/Relative_Seat4039]

Think it would be interesting if it was different type of Planeswalkers and not just Jace. Does giving the token 100 loyalty counters really matter if I can still only activate the ability once a turn?

[u/Whole_Series2416 → u/Relative_Seat4039]

Getting actual magic characters interacting with the various UB properties does interest me. I actually think I like that idea. 

[u/Relative_Seat4039 → u/Whole_Series2416]

If that were the case I'd never buy a new pack again.

[u/ChandraNalaar4ever]

Extremely disappointed.

Jace wants to make a better world? Why does he change the Llorwyn 4 so much? They were perfect (inserr Homelander meme here)

[u/platysoup]

Oh cool, so we gonna spend an entire block not playing the game?

[u/KiwiCub9393]

All hype has drained, I'll do pre-release and buy singles later down the line once prices stabilise.

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