Card art in Magic: The Gathering needs to tell the story of a character or moment while also being cool enough for players to be proud to display in their collections. Reality Fracture is easily one of the better sets for art in recent memory, and this is in part due to the extremely strong story, but the artists still needed to deliver some awesome materials to do it justice, and they absolutely nailed the assignment.

We're going to look at some of our favorite cards from the set, covering everything from base cards to variants of the rarest cards, and we'll also throw in a few that disappointed us. We'll pick at most one card per variant type, excluding base cards, so we don't fill the list with countless shattered mirror or Japan showcase cards.

Part of the Empower Jace cycle of cards, Way of the Mind Sculptor comes in with stunning symbolic artwork that captures the side of Jace we've come to know since things started going pear-shaped at the beginning of this story arc.

Jace seems composed and stern, but the scattered portals to the left of the card come across like a representation of how he's lost and doesn't quite know his way back, which ultimately comes to be true when his plan ends with him dead and the Echoverse consumed by Emrakul.

Reality Fracture is only bringing us one traditional MTG Commander precon, but it's one that's got everyone very excited, and we can see why.

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