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The Reality Fracture page now opens with a new section, Making an impact. Instead of listing every new card that has turned up somewhere, it ranks, format by format, the cards that more than one player is running and that have at least one Top 8 finish, ordered by results.

A couple of rules keep it honest. One player registering the same list in several events counts once, so a single grinder can't make a card look popular. And a format only gets ranked once there's enough data: at least 10 events and 75 decklists since the set became legal. Pioneer isn't there yet, so for now it's marked "not enough results yet" instead of being ranked on a handful of decks.

As of today, Theorist's Sanctum leads Modern: 8 different players across 4 archetypes (Dimir Midrange, Esper Control, Grixis Control and Izzet Murktide), including a win. In Standard, a white aggro package is taking shape around Ajani Resolute, Liliana the Faultless and Enlightened Confidant, and The Theorist, Jace Beleren has a win and shows up in three different archetypes. Pompous Battlemage is the one card ranking in both Standard and Modern, with two Standard wins.

We also trimmed the Early sightings list. It now shows only cards that have appeared in two decks. One-off appearances are counted in a single line under each format and get listed as soon as a second deck plays them.

Everything updates daily as new results come in.

Reality Fracture is legal, and we're tracking which of its cards are actually making tournament decks. The new "New Set" tab shows every Reality Fracture card that has appeared in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper and Legacy results since Sep 25: how many decks play it, how many copies, main deck or sideboard, its best finish, and which archetypes are running it.

Early standouts: Essence Burn was in the sideboard of both Boros Aggro lists that won Standard Store Championships last weekend. The Theorist, Jace Beleren made the main deck of a Top 8 Azorius Tempo list. In Pauper, Twinned Vision showed up in a 2nd-place Tireless Tribe deck.

It's early. Most cards have only shown up in one or two decks so far, and the page says so next to each card. It updates every day as new results come in, so check back after this weekend's events. There's also a section on the set's notable reprints, including Tarmogoyf and the five slow lands.

Every card has a buy link, and each format has a one-click button to buy all its new cards at once.

Matchup win rates are current again. They had silently stopped updating in late July, so the numbers on archetype and guide pages were six weeks old. They now refresh every night, and the win-rate table shows when it was last updated.

The site is also much better on phones. The top nav collapses into a menu instead of scrolling sideways, pages load with a placeholder instead of a blank screen, moving between pages is faster, and 404s now land you somewhere useful. Screen-reader support for the guide accordions improved along the way.

If you spot a win rate or guide that looks wrong, the "Report an issue" link on each guide still goes straight to us.

Every decklist on the site — archetype pages and your imported decks — now shows the current Card Kingdom price next to each card, refreshed hourly. If a card doesn't show a price, Card Kingdom is out of stock on it.

You can also send an entire deck to Card Kingdom's deck builder with one click: look for the Card Kingdom button next to Buy on Manapool, and in the Sideboard Builder's suggestions.

Manapool isn't going anywhere — you now just have two options, and the per-card prices should make it easier to see what a deck actually costs before you commit. Purchases made through either link support the site at no extra cost to you.

Imported a deck without a sideboard? On your deck's guide page you'll now find a one-click Sideboard Builder: it reads the last 14 days of tournament results for your format, picks the 15 cards that best cover the decks you'll actually face, saves them to your deck, and then writes your full matchup-by-matchup sideboard guide.

Suggestions are grounded in cards actually being played in the format right now, and every card is checked for format legality before it lands in your list.

You'll need an account (it's free), and builds are limited to one per 5 hours per user — they burn real compute. Existing decks with sideboards keep the "suggest upgrades" mode they already had.

And yes, this News page is new too — feature announcements and site updates will land here from now on.