Of all the Magic: The Gathering sets scheduled for 2026, Reality Fracture is by far the most enigmatic. Other than the fact that it’s a major story capstone set, we really don’t know much about it so far. While this is somewhat refreshing in an era of near-constant MTG announcements and releases, many players, understandably, are keen to know more.
This week, thanks to a social media investigation, they may have just made a breakthrough. Evidence is scarce for now, but the little we have points to a number of fan-favorite MTG planes making a comeback in Reality Fracture.
Classic Planes Are Back In MTG Reality Fracture?!
As pointed out by AffinityForMTG on Reddit, the image behind the contact form on the official MTG Reality Fracture product page appears to show several different planes. This implies that Reality Fracture is a multi-plane MTG set of some description, like Aetherdrift and March of the Machine before it.
After this image was shared and cleaned up, players began speculating on which planes the image might show. A common guess was that the central plane in the image above represents Arcavios, the home plane of Strixhaven. The ‘ring of floating stones’ motif used here is also seen on other Arcavios-set art, like Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios, so this makes a lot of sense. Secrets of Strixhaven is also the Magic Multiverse set immediately before Reality Fracture, so some crossover there would be logical.
There are a few other planes shown here that are pretty much sure things. Many think the top-right image shows Innistrad, since it depicts a spooky church under the moonlight. Another common guess is that the bottom-right image is of Ixalan, specifically the jungle areas shown in cards like Thaumatic Compass/Spires of Orazca. These are both popular planes that players would love to see a return to, but it’s difficult to confirm their returns for certain.
As to the rest of the planes shown, things are much less clear. Guesses range from old-school deep cuts like Bant and Ulgrotha to modern classics like Theros and Zendikar. There’s much less evidence for these guesses, but they’re certainly not out of the question. Since Reality Fracture is still shrouded in mystery, there’s really no telling what it could contain.
More Surprises To Come
The idea of Magic getting another travelogue set like this is a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand, Aetherdrift’s interpretation of the idea didn’t go down too well with players for the most part. On the other hand, March of the Machine handled it pretty well, largely due to its focus on the main story. With Reality Fracture also being a major story set, this could easily be the case here again.
Ultimately, it’s impossible to know which way Reality Fracture will end up going, or how it will be received. After all, we still barely know anything about the set, and Wizards of the Coast supposedly has something big in store.
Since the set’s reveal, Mark Rosewater has been teasing a “big innovation” coming in Reality Fracture. All we know about this so far is that it, sadly, isn’t triple-sided cards. This leaves a lot of room for what it could be, however, meaning it could be an innovation that makes the travelogue set idea more palatable.
Whatever the case is, we likely won’t get more information on Reality Fracture for a while. While we are getting an incredibly early look at Marvel Super Heroes next Tuesday, the same likely isn’t true for Magic’s big 2026 capstone set. Wizards tends to be much more secretive about big in-universe story sets like this one, after all. I don’t expect we’ll hear much more until after Secrets of Strixhaven at the earliest.
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