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Market Intel

The real story today is Wizards quietly walking back part of their own Zeta policy, with ten of the twelve downshifted commons from The Zeta Set now legal in Pauper on what Gavin Verhey explicitly calls a short leash, while Narcomoeba and Price of Progress stay benched because they slot too cleanly into existing power decks, according to Star City Games. That is a genuine metagame inflection point for Pauper, since format‑level power is being handed to players first and then monitored after the fact, which tends to create at least a few short‑term card spikes as people test the boundaries. On the product side, Reality Fracture’s preview schedule is locked in through mid‑September with a frankly dizzying list of outlets, which suggests Wizards is very eager to move past calling the Zeta Chaos Vault sale “a disaster” and get everyone focused on the next set instead, according to Star City Games and Wargamer.