Reality Fracture (FRA) Limited Review — White

Note: This article was translated from Chinese by AI and may contain errors. Read the original Chinese version.

Reality Fracture (FRA) has its prerelease events on September 25, 2026, and officially releases a week later on October 2, 2026. Want to know more about how each card rates in Limited, with recommendations? Then check out this series of FRA Limited reviews!

• For the mechanics, see this article: Reality Fracture Mechanics Explained

Rating Scale

5.0: Always take it; gives you a near-winning advantage
4.5: Always take it if you’re in the right colors; gives you a huge advantage
4.0: First-pick quality; excellent synergy with the archetype’s theme, and can be the deciding card for splashing, switching colors, or entering a color pair
3.5: Top uncommons and commons of the set, plus other strong cards; good synergy with the archetype’s theme, and a key card for entering a color pair
3.0: Important cards for an archetype’s theme, plus other above-average cards; you’ll want them in your final deck
2.5: Average, usually a decent curve filler
2.0 to 1.0: Below average; you generally prefer not to play them, and can use them as filler if necessary, but not too many. A 2.0 can also be the score for a strong sideboard card.
0.5 to 0.0: Unplayable; basically never play it, it will only help you lose

Card Ratings

Rating: 2.0
Comment: A 2-mana combat trick is too clunky, but Empower Jace lets you filter a bit, which earns back a little of the rating.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: A hard-to-kill body. Flying plus vigilance lets it hit every turn and still stay back to block, and Prepare can place counters and gain life, making it very versatile.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: An offense-oriented creature that, after it dies, can exile Empower Jace 2 from the graveyard to filter a bit.

Rating: 2.0 / 3.5
Comment: In green-white it’s a strong card-advantage engine: if you’ve gained life you can surveil, and if you gained enough life you can even pick up the card you surveilled into the graveyard. In other color pairs it’s just a 2/1 lifelinker, and to trigger its ability you can usually only rely on its own lifelink, but the body is bad and it usually doesn’t come back once it’s out. Note that its ability requires that you gained life this turn before it surveils; if you didn’t gain life, nothing happens.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: It can return a legendary card to hand. This set has many legendary creatures, so there should always be something to return, and returning a planeswalker is a killing. The other option places counters and also grants vigilance and indestructible so creatures can get through.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: The body is really bad, and the rating is for the ability. Paired with enters-the-battlefield creatures you can earn very happily, and you can also blink creatures that attacked this turn so they come back standing, achieving an effect like vigilance.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: Returns a creature with mana value 3 or less to the battlefield and places a counter. Flashback lets you do it once more, a small highlight.

Rating: 1.0 / 2.0
Comment: At three mana you need to make at least two 2/2s to get your money’s worth, which means gaining at least two life first before doing this, and that condition isn’t always easy to meet in Limited. The green-white theme is also about gaining small amounts of life many times rather than a large amount all at once. It’s barely usable in green-white, but still depends a lot on timing and support.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: When it dies it gives all the counters on it to another creature. A decent curve creature.

Rating: 4.0
Comment: The larger the X, the bigger it is, and whenever you draw it you can cast it as the situation calls for. Before combat you can choose whether to remove a counter from it so that all your other creatures get a counter, powerfully strengthening your board.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: Six mana for three 2/2s plus Empower Jace 2, which gives you a board and also lets you filter a bit. Early in the game you can also basic landcycle it to fix colors and find lands.

Rating: 3.5
Comment: By choosing a creature type, you have a chance to leave some of your creatures on the board after the sweep, but a 7-mana sweeper is still a bit too expensive.

Rating: 0.0 / 3.0
Comment: It depends on whether your deck has planeswalkers to find. Being able to tutor a bomb to the top of your library for just one mana is still very strong.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: Single-target removal that exiles a permanent. This set has quite a few permanents like planeswalkers and enchantments, so its importance should be higher.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: It can place up to two counters and can be cast again from the graveyard. Red-white should like it quite a bit.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: Strong 2-mana single-target creature removal. You can wait until the opponent’s important creature attacks before killing it, so the opponent doesn’t draw a card. In some situations you can also kill your own creature to draw cards.

Rating: 2.0
Comment: An excellent sideboard card. It answers both creatures and planeswalkers, and since it exiles you needn’t fear them being picked back up, and it throws in a surveil 1. This set’s Jace tokens are also blue, so this card can remove them.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: It has to attack before it can Empower Jace, and the body is bad, so it easily doesn’t come back once it’s out. On the other hand, if you can land it early, before the opponent’s board is established, then once you start attacking, the rhythm of looting through the Jace token will feel very comfortable.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: Pity it can only dig up permanents from your own graveyard, and white isn’t sure to survive until seven mana, but the board advantage after a successful cast should be enough to win the game.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: A curve creature with a good body and evasion, and its team-wide pump ability is also useful in the late game.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: Although it’s removal with limited range, the second mode lets you draw cards and gain life when there’s no target, so at least it won’t get stuck in hand as a dead card.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: A payoff card for green-white: whenever you gain life it places a counter and grows. It also has ward 1, forcing the opponent to spend more mana to remove it.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: The more troublesome threats are all within its range, and being able to remove either creatures or planeswalkers is very strong, plus it throws in a surveil 1.

Rating: 2.5/4.0
Comment: A strong card that goes with green-white: it can gain life, make blockers, and boost board pressure. In other color pairs it’s almost only a life-gain tool; using [-4] to make blockers is too slow, and the ultimate is out of the question.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: First strike makes it hard for the opponent to trade it off through creatures. Casting Equipment or a combat trick targeting your own creature draws a card (and triggers on the opponent’s turn too), an excellent card-refill method in aggro decks.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: As long as you’re not so unlucky that all your creatures get removed by the opponent, you should be able to bring it out smoothly on turns five or six. The body is so good that the opponent almost has to spend a removal spell to deal with it, and to ordinary creatures it’s an insurmountable high wall.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: Many uses: in decks with lots of tokens it gives token creatures extra power and vigilance; it works as an accelerant and color fixer for planeswalker decks; and at the very least it can barely be used as conditional removal.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: A land drop gains you life, and if the land that enters is a Plains it also places a counter. A very strong curve creature. It’s good in any color pair that includes white, but note that in decks with three or more colors it may be harder to trigger the counter-placing ability.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: A creature or planeswalker entering can trigger the life gain, which is very important for green-white. Discarding a card can save your other creatures or planeswalkers, so the opponent has to remove it first before they can remove our other threats.

Rating: 3.5
Comment: A payoff card for green-white: each time you gain life, all Angels place counters and grow. After it’s been pumped a few times, it can become a lethal threat itself.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: It’s only more useful when paired with permanents that have strong enters-the-battlefield abilities. Paired with the Way of the … series of enchantments it can place a pile of loyalty counters on the Jace token every turn.

Rating: 4.0
Comment: An important payoff card for white-blue. If the opponent can’t remove it, it makes a whole board of 1/1 Thopters to break through the opponent’s defenses. Since Jace tokens also make you surveil in this set, it’s suitable for any color pair that includes white.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: The enters-the-battlefield ability can protect any permanent: if it’s a creature it also places a counter, and if it’s a planeswalker it also places loyalty counters. Very strong.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: A good body with lifelink, and its ability slows down the opponent’s tempo; removal, sweepers, and planeswalkers will all be stuck.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: Greatly increases a planeswalker’s survivability. Unless you have no creatures to block with, the opponent’s creatures will almost never kick your planeswalker to death. It’s itself a 2-mana 2/1 flyer, which puts a lot of pressure on the opponent when attacking, and its ability also lets other creatures with counters take off to attack or block.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: Gives the Jace token a [-2] that makes a 2/2 Cadet plus surveil 1, and next turn you can make another or just [-3] to draw a card. If you have other Empower Jace cards to pair with it, you can endlessly produce blockers, but doing this on an empty board at four mana is a bit weak on tempo.

Rating: 2.5
Comment: Only in green-white do you have a chance to repeatedly trigger the loyalty-counter ability, keeping the Jace token on the battlefield for later looting, and it can also speed up other planeswalkers to their ultimates. If you can’t gain life, it’s just a 3-mana draw 1, surveil 1, surveil 1 (and you do it over three turns).

Rating: 3.0
Comment: It places one extra counter, and at six mana it can place counters with its own ability. An important payoff card for red-white.

Rating: 3.0
Comment: Although neither side can do anything during combat, it gives double strike to creatures attacking alone for your side, which also makes up for the drawback of not being able to cast spells.

Conclusion

White in this set has no off-the-charts bombs, and some cards are clearly limited to a particular color pair, but most of the cards have fighting power in Limited builds, and I’m looking forward to the diversity of this set’s Limited format.