The Empower Jace mechanic explained, MTG Reality Fracture's new ability

There's only one Jace, so how do you make a common card feel like him? The Empower Jace mechanic is Reality Fracture's answer, a twist on amass that builds Jace planeswalker tokens instead of creature armies. This deep dive walks through exactly how it works using Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes as the example, covers the token-only rule Commander players need to know, and pulls from designers Mark Rosewater and Jeremy Geist on why it tested better than anything else in the set.

The Reality Fracture preview is here, and it's a lot. Jace Beleren snaps and builds an entire replacement multiverse, Empower Jace turns Limited into a planeswalker free-for-all, and every booster pack guarantees a mirrored "what-if" pair of your favorite characters. This primer covers the story, the new Hexhaven setting, the mechanics, the collector treatments, and the full product lineup with release dates. Deep dives on each piece are coming as launch gets closer.

Wizards called its own Zeta Set sale "a disaster," and that's accurate. Checkout broke forty minutes into the September 2nd Chaos Vault sale, the queue froze for over an hour, and remaining stock sold out in about five minutes once it resumed, with packs already flipping on eBay. This is the Zeta Set disaster, and it was preventable: require an account at checkout instead of guest purchases, and enforce WPN terms against stores reselling direct-to-consumer product on TCGplaye