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Table of Contents

Guide

Abrams ComicArts, New York

By Jay Annelli

A VISUAL HISTORY

Dragons Maze Key Art

Eric Deschamps

Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

Chase Stone

Faerie Vandal

Paul Scott Canavan

CONTENTS

Magic: The Gathering

takes place across a vast multiverse of diverse

planes of existence. Over the decades of its life,

Magic

has developed

a wide array of those planes, evolving into a multimedia franchise

with a genre-spanning range.

When the creative team behind

Magic

s art and lore began building

new worlds to explore, they sought new ways to resonate with fans

outside of traditional fantasy and created new planeswalker charac-

ters to connect the multiverse. The origin of these creative endeavors

varysome planes are built around the mechanics of the card set

for which theyre being designed, while other sets establish a core

theme and cards and mechanics are designed around that concept.

These design approaches are known as bottom-up and top-down,

respectively.

Top-down design instantly resonates with fans familiar with the

source material, whether its fairy-tale-themed Eldraine or the giant

monsters of Ikoria, inspired by film icons like Godzilla. The gothic-

horror-inspired Innistrad takes the classic monsters of early cinema

and builds a world where humanity struggles against werewolves,

INTRODUCTION

Silverwing Squadron

Johannes Voss

Bram Stokeresque vampires, and mad scientists in the vein of Dr.

Frankenstein. Theros, Amonkhet, and Kaldheim take inspiration from

classical mythology, building worlds around Greek, Egyptian, and

Norse mythology, respectively, down to homages to their various

gods. These worlds are at once familiar and fantastical, putting a

unique

Magic

twist on the genre.

Bottom-up designs are no less resonant, building worlds from

the core of

Magic

s identitythe flavorful implementation of game

mechanics. That unique intersection is where

Magic

s worldbuilders

often shine brightest. The guilds of Ravnica began as a way to explain

ten multicolor factions, but have evolved into an element of the lore

so beloved, almost every

Magic

player claims one or more of them

as part of their own identity. Players even use the guild names as

shorthand for the color combinations the guilds represent. Adventure

and exploration matter on Zendikar because lands matter in the set.

As

Magic: The Gathering

continues to expand into new realms,

including an animated series on the popular streaming service Netflix,

I hope youll take the time to walk the planes with me in this illus-

trated guide. Covered in these pages is the core worldbuilding of over

a dozen planes... and the planeswalkers who call those planes home.

Theros Key Art

Tyler Jacobson

Magic: The Gathering

s worlds, called planes, are part of a vast multi-

verse as varied as it is dangerous. Each plane is distinct from all others,

separated by a mystical veil called the Blind Eternities. There are

beings capable of traveling the Blind Eternities, called planeswalkers,

each of whom carries an imprint of the Blind Eternities on their soul.

That imprint is called a spark, and for most it lies dormant their entire

lives. A planeswalkers spark will ignite in a moment of extreme emo-

tion: the stress of a near-death experience, the transcendent joy of

achieving ones deepest desire, the deep grief derived from the loss

of a loved one taken before their time. In that transcendent moment,

the barriers between realms fall and planeswalkers are flung across

the multiverse for the first time. The Gatewatch, a group of interplanar

heroes, were united by the need to defend planes from extraplanar

threats, whether they be other planeswalkers or eldritch beings.

Magic: The Gathering

spent much of its early years on a plane

known as Dominaria, from the very first set,

Limited Edition Alpha

,

in 1993, through

Scourge

in 2003.

Magic

built an epic history that

spanned millennia on Dominaria, filling a world full of classic fantasy

PLANES

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tropes. After that decade spent mostly on Dominaria, the story began

to explore new worlds and new genres across the multiverse. Of these

new worlds, the city-plane of Ravnica became a massively popular

destination, premiering in 2005s

Ravnica: City of Guilds

and appear-

ing most recently in 2019s

War of the Spark

. Today, Ravnica has been

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