Magic's Reality Fracture reveals 12 Echoverse legend versions

Wizards of the Coast has laid out how Reality Fracture rewrites some of Magic's best-known planeswalkers. A legends guide profiles twelve Echoverse versions across six characters: Jace Beleren, Tam, Ajani, Chandra, Garruk, and Liliana. The set's release date is October 2, 2026, worldwide.

The Echoverse in brief

The Echoverse is a mirrored version of reality built by Jace Beleren. Because its history differs from the original Multiverse, the fates of familiar legends, and sometimes their appearances, have changed with it.

Reality Fracture's story runs for ten episodes and is already under way. The set also brings new versions of the Lorwyn Five alongside what Wizards calls deep-cut favorite characters.

Three versions of Jace

Jace appears in three forms. He is described as the most powerful mind-mage in the Multiverse and its former heroic defender. After his allies died and he was infected during the Phyrexian Invasion, he resolved to build a reality free of the Multiverse's trauma and suffering.

• Jace, Reality Sculptor (Human, he/him) is building the new reality plane by plane, using the magic of the Meditation Realm to turn illusions into reality. His Echoverse has no Phyrexians, no Eldrazi, and no interference from Nicol Bolas, and he sees himself as the Multiverse's savior.
• Jace, Multiverse Architect (Human, he/him) pursues the same project with relentless persistence and uncharacteristic recklessness, convinced that he alone has the discipline, intelligence, power, and vision for it.
• The Theorist, Jace Beleren (Human, he/him) is a fragment of Jace's personality that took over after his mind fractured following his apparent death in the Meditation Realm. Traits such as empathy and wisdom are locked away. He uses mind-control and mind-reading powers without restraint and is overseeing the last step of a plan to overwrite the original Multiverse and replace all life with his vision of reality.

Tam, Ajani, and Chandra

Tam, the Possibility (Gorgon, she/her) is Tamira, a creation of Jace who served as his spy and agent in the Multiverse, gathering the final pieces needed to stabilize the new reality. After meeting other Strixhaven students, she has doubts about his methods.

Ajani splits into two opposed versions, both Leonin and he/him:

• Ajani Resolute is the Ajani Goldmane version, driven by his dead brother's legacy and leading with compassion. He has begun to heal from the pain he caused under the influence of phyresis, and he is ready to defend the Multiverse against Jace, whom he once called a friend.
• Ajani Unrelenting is the Echoverse Ajani who left a trail of carnage seeking revenge for his brother Jazal, a leader killed during Alara's Conflux Wars while trying to broker peace. He is devoted to vengeance and wrath and uses attack-oriented magic.

Chandra also gets a pair, both Human and she/her:

• Chandra, Torch of Defiance is the Chandra Nalaar version who formed a strange mental link to Jace after he meddled with her mind during the Ghirapur Grand Prix. She hopes to save him but will burn his false reality to the ground if she has to.
• Chandra, Chill of Compliance is an Avishkar consul shieldguard who enforces the Consulate's will on Avishkar by suppressing rebellion and guarding aether transports. She has cryomancy prowess and has embraced the Theorist's vision for all of reality.

Garruk and Liliana

Both Garruk versions are Human and he/him. Garruk, Curse Breaker is the Garruk Wildspeaker version who prefers the company of beasts and was once cursed against his will. He joins the hunt for Jace to stop the erasure of the Multiverse. Garruk, Veiled Butcher put on the Chain Veil after the demon Kothophed offered a way to suppress the beast within him, in the Onakke Catacombs on Shandalar. He now works across the Echoverse as an assassin who helps the Theorist cleave away troublesome elements, and he summons vicious predators.

The two Lilianas are both Human and she/her. Liliana the Repentant is a Liliana Vess version, a necromancer-turned-professor held prisoner in the Echoverse after her doppelgänger kidnapped her on Strixhaven. Jace believes he would be "improving" her life by changing the Multiverse. Liliana the Faultless rose to prominence as a healer in Benalia within a convocation of clerics called the Forward Order. Her knowledge of botanical remedies let her cure her brother.

Release and preorders

Reality Fracture is an international release with a worldwide date of October 2, 2026. Preorders are offered through local game stores, TCGplayer, Amazon, and other places that sell Magic.

The legends guide is a living document. Wizards will add a new biography each time a legend is added to the Reality Fracture Card Image Gallery.

Where this fits

Reality Fracture also has a premium side. TCGKing's earlier report on Magic's first Secret Lair Bundle covers two Reality Fracture drops, Strange School and Duality Distorted, sold in three bundles from $159.98 to $234.99 in the Chaos Vault.

What it means for players

• Story followers: the ten-episode story is already running, and the legends guide shows how several of the versions stand toward Jace's plan.
• Collectors of a given character: the guide treats most of these planeswalkers as pairs or trios of versions, so several distinct profiles exist for Jace, Ajani, Chandra, Garruk, and Liliana.
• Anyone tracking reveals: the guide updates whenever a legend enters the Card Image Gallery, so new entries will appear there.

What is still unknown

The guide does not say which other legends, including the Lorwyn Five versions, will be added as cards are revealed. Card mechanics, rarities, and prices for these legend cards are not announced yet. Preorder prices and product configurations at individual retailers are also not given, and neither is how the ten story episodes release and conclude.