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Magic: The Gathering: Legends: A Visual History
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An official guide to the most iconic legends and legendary creatures from the world of Magic: The Gathering

The world of Magic: The Gathering is home to many fantastical characters and creatures, but perhaps none so intriguing as its legends. Legendary dragons, demons, angels, goblins, vampires, merfolk, wizards, and more roam the multiverse. These characters harken back to Magics early history, having been introduced in one of the first Magic card sets (1994s Legends); new legends continue to tell epic stories in lore and on the battlefield through the present day.

Magic: The Gathering: Legends showcases high-quality reproductions of the legendary card art from across the games history--in many instances for the first time outside of the card frame--along with accompanying histories written by Jay Annelli. This collection also offers exclusive insight into the art and mythology behind some of Magic: The Gatherings most powerful, popular, and enduring legends, including Niv-Mizzet, Emmara Tandris, Marit Lage, Sisay, Atraxa, the Eldrazi titans, Edgar Markov, Queen Marchesa, Zurgo, Pia Nalaar, Zacama, King Algenus Kenrith, Snapdax, and many, many more.

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CONTENTS

The year was 1999 I a young teen had just begged my parents - photo 11

The year was 1999 I a young teen had just begged my parents to buy me a pack - photo 12

The year was 1999. I, a young teen, had just begged my parents to buy

me a pack of the brand-new set of

Magic: The Gathering

cards,

Mer-

cadian Masques

. On the car ride home, I flipped through my prize

with wonder. Opening the pack, most were creatures and spells I had

never heard of before. The creature Horned Troll looked neat! Light-

ning Hounds were definitely cool. Those cards were great, but it was

the rare one in the back of the pack that captured my imagination:

Squee, Goblin Nabob, complete with art depicting a goofy-looking

goblin in full leadership regalia. This wasnt just a creature like the

others, but a Goblin

Legend

. Who

was

this creature who was cool

enough to be called a Legend? I had to know more.

Legends in

Magic

have that effect. While the game itself, with its

magical spells and fantastical creatures, conveys the fantasy theme,

its the characters who sell the diverse worlds of

Magic

s Multiverse.

And there are hundreds of them, with dozens more printed every

year. Its not unlikely that

Magic

will have printed a thousand Leg-

endary Creature cards within the next couple years. Not all of these

Legends have elaborate backstories or feature into epic fantasy

FOREWORD

Bragos Favor

Karla Ortiz

sagas, but they do give play-

ers someoneor something

to identify with.

Legends were introduced

early in

Magic

s history with

the aptly named

Legends

set

in 1994. They quickly captured

the players imaginations, espe-

cially the Elder Dragons. Leg-

ends, or Legendary Creatures as

they came to be known, proved

to be so popular that theyve been printed in almost every product

since. They have also inspired one of the most popular and enduring

formats in the game, Commander.

Originally, the stories of these Legends were left vague, and it

was up to the players imaginations to fill in the blanks. As time went

on and

Magic

delved into the realm of epic fantasy sagas, many of

the characters behind the cards were fleshed out. Characters from

the story were printed as Legends, and Legends that were printed

before the story made their way into the narrative.

The printing of Legends became a narrative tool, showing dif-

ferent states of characters as time progressed. We first saw this

with the character Crovax, who was printed as Crovax the Cursed

Stronghold

. Crovax was a member of the crew of the legend-

ary skyship

Weatherlight

and in a cruel twist of fate was cursed

to become a vampire. The vampiric Crovax turned on his former

crew and joined the evil Phyrexia, obtaining the title of Evincar

Crovax the Cursed

Pete Venters

and appearing next on the card

Ascendant Evincar when the

storys spotlight returned to him.

This technique of presenting

Magic

s story through its char-

acters, or telling a story through

the changes made to Legends

over time, was used more and

more as the years went on.

Some characters have appeared

three, even four times. As some-

one who has obsessed over all the details in

Magic

s story and has

written more than a hundred articles on the topic, I was incredibly

pleased to be asked to bring the stories of these Legends to you

through this book.

Some of the characters youll find in these pages are among the

most famous in

Magic

; youd be hard-pressed to find a

Magic

player

who has never heard of Avacyn. Some of the characters have more

words written about them in this book than youll find in all of

Magic

other publications combined. They were picked for both their

impact and their diversity, to give you a sampling of the unique

and varied creatures and worlds in

Magic: The Gathering

. Whether

youve never heard of

Magic

before picking up this book or youve

been playing since Urza was just a name associated with glasses

and weird hats, I hope you enjoy the fantastic artwork and brief

biographies of the characters presented throughout.

Ascendant Evincar

Mark Zug

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