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We showed you blue Chandra back at #MCVegas, but here is a more familiar side of the pyromancer planeswalker. Every booster pack in #MTGFracture comes with a set of cards called an Echoed Pair. One represents our familiar multiverse and the other their Echoverse counterpart.

If Liliana's brother had never died, her deep dive into necromancy would not have happened. This leaves her as a healer through and through in the Echoverse, whether you want to be healed or not. #MTGFracture

The biggest planeswalkers aren't the only ones with an echoed pair across the separate realities. A tiny thief turns into a giant protector of the creatures of Yavimaya, say hello to Titanbones! #MTGFracture

Hexhaven is the center nexus of Jace's echoverse, powered by the finest cadets and their magic. It is a ruthless pressure cooker where the strong thrive and the weak are left behind. #MTGFracture

The School of Future History, Fatehold. Why bother studying the past when you can just predict the future? This school is focused on scrying and surveilling as seen on Prudent Fateseer. Prepared spells also make a return in #MTGFracture on a couple of cards for each school!

The School of Esoteric Mathematics, Theorix. This school barely uses real numbers and as a result, many of it's students just kind of go insane with all that reality bending. Theorix mages like to mill and set up graveyard shenanigans. #MTGFracture

The School of Painful Words, Stingerquill. You won't find the elegance or restraint of Silverquill here. The vicious verses they speak cut directly to the heart with no mercy. #MTGFracture

The School of Constructive Arts, Konstrari. Who needs art when you can have buildings and puppets? Woodwork Prodigy ramps you to bigger and better creations via its prepared spell. #MTGFracture

The School of Invasive Healing, Vigorbloom. These healers don't ever let you die. They fix your wounds while making you stronger; strong enough that you might not even recognize yourself. #MTGFracture

Jace's Echoverse is like a flickering and insubstantial film blanketing the Multiverse. It affects everything, but it's not real yet. While it's tempting to go wide with the story at that scale, #MTGFracture focuses on the characters at the heart of it all.

That doesn't mean we can't have a little "Planar Chaos-esque What If's?" though! Mark Rosewater talks about Enlightened Confidant and how despite being a clear nod to Dark Confidant, it stays within its piece of the color pie.

New with #MTGFracture: the Secret Lair Bundle! This will be available just about anywhere Magic is sold, with goodies including a promo pack containing 2 of 10 possible mythics from the set in a Secret Lair Style. A Secret Lair Style like these three cards!

Let's step away from #MTGFracture and start a look forward at what Magic looks like in 2027. That includes the three Magic Multiverse sets of the year, next year's FOUR(!) MagicCons, and the next iteration of Mystery Booster.

Mystery Booster Commander Edition comes to MagicCons and Festival in a Box later this year! This is a Commander draft set featuring 20 card packs, tons of Legendary reprints, and 59 new cards designed for Commander play.

It's not all lore deep cuts, though. Some are just cute like Tolabow! Tolabow also has Rulebreaker! This new mechanic appears on eight cards in the set and allows for some wild changes to your deck. All of these cards were designed alongside the Commander format panel team.

Nauctis is a vast underwater world that stretches from the welcoming shallows to the deep abyss. Countless mysteries await beneath the waves and we can't wait to share how the different colors of mana function under the sea. #MTGNauctis

This return of the Hall of Fame after years and years of inactivity is really exciting news! I appreciate a Player of the Year, and Top 8's are excellent for stats nerds, but to demonstrate the game's fullest self I hope Hall of Fame includes individuals who contribute outside of tournament play.

I'd love a return to the Homelands and I've pitched an out-there concept for how such a return would be possible. As an old, Ulgrotha has a very special place in my heart. Seeing it mined for empty nostalgia bums me out a bit. (We had that already with Commander Legends.) I love Shuler's art here.