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Magic: The Gathering Story Summary

[Music] this is the story of Magic the Gathering a sweeping epic 30 years in the making that spans Millennia that encompasses countless Plains and details the rise and fall of myriad Empires it's a story of struggle a tapestry of conflict woven by great powers and Unstoppable forces a tale of ambition in hubris that details the Blind eternities and the shape of the Multiverse at large this video is divided into eight distinguished epochs of mtg's main story all dates given are in relation to the argivian Reckoning the birth of urza plainswalker and will be abbreviated as a I want to preemptively address the well actually and you forgot to mentions in the comments the Multiverse is too vast to detail every story arc and character and too complex to delve into the deepest intricacy a cursory retelling of the most significant plot lines is what follows from the birth of History to the fall of the thr the Weatherlight Saga nickel bulls' minations and new fian Invasion will uncover Magic's Essence Major Spoilers to come for all story arcs all right let's Dive In in the beginning the Multiverse was unformed its protean landscape a seething chaos from which five fundamental Essences coalesced distinguishing themselves from one another in distilled aspects of reality these became the five colors of Mana each embodying critical aspects of existence white the color of constant and structure red the color of Ingenuity and emotion blue of intellect and insight green of Verger and growth black of death and power from Mana came planes and from Planes came time space reality and life each plane represents an entire universe of events and possibilities and infinite planes populate the great expanse of the blind eternities a primal void of ether raw energy inscrutable and inhospitable interestingly it's this unwelcome and destructive expanse that supported the first beings of existence the incomprehensible race of elrazi stalked the blind eternity's ancient Mists acting as Nature's gardeners their voracious hunger consuming planes completely and pruning the great emptiness other entities avatars of mana and manifestations of elements formed within the blind eternities the ER Dragon for example Rose as the progenitor of all Dragon kind across the Multiverse the parent of fire that is purported to live betwix and between realities it's such mythological figures that dominated the earliest days of time the first documented event in civilized history takes place in roughly 100,000 AR when the eans first initiate their multiversal Trek towards Enlightenment and this is the state of the Multiverse for much time nent Plains developing life cycles and complex ecosystems primitive civilizations rising from the Earth to command the colors of Mana the nature of time and reality stabilizing from the first throws of chaos then Inga - 25,000 AR the ER Dragon unfurls its massive wings and rides on the Winds of Eternity seeding countless Plaines with its Offspring as it sojourns across the Multiverse it descends upon the plane of dominaria and from the sky eggs plummet like meteors to the Earth from these molten craters emerge fully conscious and extremely powerful dragons known collectively as the elder dragons a pedigree that includes such Mighty and Infamous figures as nickel Bolas his twin brother ugan the intellectual arcad Sabbath and the rapacious Padia Moors the elder dragons possessed of great ambition quickly dominate dominaria ancient races and assert authority over the plane for thousands of years they rule with Draconian Authority but roughly 5,000 years into their reign the dragons are consumed in an intractable and bitter War instigated by the schemes of nickel Bolas his designs for power are complex his ambition boundless Bolas manipulates his kin and the Elder Dragon War erupts across dominaria for Generations dragons slay one another their Legions of slaves Clash on fields of battle scorched in fire death and destruction are all we see the retelling of this mythical conflict in The Saga the Elder Dragon War when the screams end and the dust settles only seven elder dragons remain Padia Moors victus asmati chromium rule Arcadia Sabbath Peru ugan and nickol Bolas the aftermath of the war sees ugan plainswalker spark ignite and out of such strong resentment jealousy and contempt for his brother Nicol Bolas also ascends the twins leave dominaria in scorched ruin and begin a journey of mutual struggle that will forever see them conflicted and their Fates tied to one another ugan seeks understanding nickel seeks power they fight over ages in Plains But ultimately bulas slays his twin above the meditation plain Serene Waters with his greatest rival vanquished Bolas claims the title of mightiest being but ugin's Essence remains and though his body is destroyed he's reborn from the meditation plane as ugan the spirit dragon he spends his energy chasing after his brother and studying the complexities of the Multiverse on dominaria years pass into centuries and centuries into Millennia the remaining elder dragons Fade Into Obscurity but from them are spawned the second generation ation of all powerful dragons known as the primevals though they can't contend with the superiority of the elders the primevals still possess unparalleled strength and Magic the full extent of their prowess awakened when in the presence of one another the five promeal dragons each embody one aspect of the dragon's life cycle and manifest particular abilities they are ramadas rth tra dromar and crois for 1,000 years the Primeval dragons rule the plane as Undisputed Gods intimidating and dominating the other races dwelling here it isn't until roughly 16,000 AR that dominaria dragons are finally checked by a force as powerful as themselves five mysterious and mystical Wizards known to time as the num Mena gather strength in secret beneath the Primeval yoke lost to myth are their Origins and nothing nothing is known of the period following their rise but the Numa embody ambition and selfishness together they defeat the prime evils with salvos of magical energy but with their purpose fulfilled the group devolved quickly into personal plays for power they refuse to share their position as new overlords of dominaria two are slain in conflict with one another and the rest make of the plane what they will for nearly 10 Millennia dominari remains a wild unpr predictable realm ruled by Warlords whose influence extends to the very limit of their power tumult and Chaos consume it but dominaria isn't the only plane in the Multiverse across the Great expanse of ether the foundation for a structured and civilized society is formed on the plane of Ravnica which has up to this point been Riven by clans of warmongers this Spinx plainswalker Azor arrives and with assistance of the most influential leaders among barbarous tribes drafts the charter of the guild pact much like dominaria ravnica's early history is ravaged by War and instability The Guild pact is a Doctrine suffused with homany and bound to the plain's lay lines to end inosine conflict and assert some form of normaly signed by the parents among them NIV Mizit Ria ratos and the obsid do the guild paact establishes the 10 Guild system of administration on RAV and allows for the plain's slow but inexorable transformation from a blasted wildscape into the most populous and urbanized plane known in the Multiverse and the reborn ugan makes a home of the plane of tarir his presence creates massive manaus storms that rage across the landscape from these tempests emerge fully formed dragons that quickly rise to power the epoch of mytho History comes to a close the absolute authority of dominaria dragons passes lawlessness and brutality are gradually replaced by order a society's form across countless ples it seems power too is distilled and distributed aside from the rare Plaines Walkers gone are the days of beings who wielded power enough to fracture land and reality a sense of calm follows the tumult that first shook the Multiverse into existence on dominaria a race of technologically advanced people known as the thran rise to dominance through the use of power Stones artifacts charged with Mana that themselves energize the mechanical functioning of several devices or else act as battery Wells for significant infrastructure through the power Stones thr invent Grand technology that defies physics that simplifies and eases life that bestows dangerous weapons of Untold destruction with these devices the thr carve out a Grand Empire across land sea and sky hian the Magnificent City that floats above the desert establishes itself as the thran capital wherein power is divided by two factions the imperialists and the Republicans Master Builders Grand artificers and the elite side with the imperialists while eugenesis Mystics and healers side with Republicans in a grand coup the elite take the Reigns of power and destroy the Last Remnant of Republican resistance by casting out as Exiles all eugenicists among them a young healer named yoth is destined to walk the endless wastes in the years that surround Nega 5,000 AR housian administers the thran Empire and wields unparalleled power the technology of their Stones fu and Grand Ambitions but power comes at a price ignorance blinds them to the reality that power Stones exude significant magical radiation that seeps into atmosphere ground and flesh the bizarre disease known as thus originates from the power stones and rapidly spreads across the thran Empire hysteria grips the population thousands are consumed by this horrible disease that eats skin destroys muscle and rots bone in shock housian sends its Afflicted Untouchables to the Mountain caverns and pits beneath the city's luster here in the caves of the Damned the poor wretches are left to wallow in misery until death takes them the imperialists are helpless to stay thisis they can do nothing to control its spread soon it will take the lives of all housian glacian the genius of Power Stone technology is himself a Afflicted and 5 years after his Exile yoth is recalled to housian to cure his Affliction this sinuous event leads to the tragic collapse of the thran Empire and the birth of a vile race of artificially and magically enhanced monsters that dwell within a metallic hell yoth desires power bereft of compassion or sympathy he cares only about knowledge and influence and possesses a deep yearning to elevate the thran people through genetic engineering to Supreme forms Beyond Humanity through medical expertise and Insidious manipulation yog moth Rises on the waves of fear his discovery of a treatment for thus earns him devotion of The Untouchables and respect of the administrative Elite in short order he gains control of housian and has at his call thousands of loyal followers yagas Mercurial tyranny doesn't go unnoticed and delegates from the Empire's other great cities demand he be imprisoned but in a coup yoth dissolves haan's Council declares himself lord of the city and prepares for conflict against the alliance that opposes him thus sparking the thr Civil War violence engulfs dominaria meanwhile through the plains Walker died yoth is shown an artificial plane of nested spheres it's a paradise of metal where the sun's Rays glint off in idelic simulacrum of Natural Life yog moth is struck with a vision here is the location where he will conduct genetic experiments this is where the human race will evolve Beyond its own confines and Ascend to something far greater under the guise of an infirmary meant to treat Untouchables yoth creates a portal that connects dominaria to this artificial world through the caves of the Damned and conducts experiments to perfect a process he terms pesis the continual Improvement and evolution of a creature until it reaches perfection in grotesque Chambers and a top bloody tables the first generations of what will be fyans are born yoth induces a form of fyis within himself as he TS to the artificial pl's core and in its bowels conducts infernal RS binding his Essence to the metal his will permeates every layer of the plane and he he becomes its terrible God he embodies the Divine supreme ruler of his paradise thus is the plane of fxia established a steel hell dominaria as Nightmare and the bane of many in the Millennia to follow as the thran Civil War reaches a crescendo yagm moth's opposition surrounds hian and prepares a final confrontation caught unaware however by the eugenicist experimentations the thrown into disarray when fian Warriors creatures resembling humans but lost entirely Slaughter with abandoned their improved attributes win them the field and as the tide of War swings into yagas favor the thran and dominari itself are spared the terrible fate of feniz when heroic efforts launched the null sphere into orbit and far away from housian City the sphere was originally a thran military operation Center that controlled artifact creatures and weapons from across the Empire after it fell to yoth he stationed it around his Capital City to protect housian from the magical destruction Unleashed by the newly developed Stone Chargers weapons that generate blasts of pure Mana consuming all in a wave of desolation with the null sphere no longer in protective orbit alian the thran alliance yogos fian all on the field and everything within miles are consumed entirely by the stone charger blasts yoth himself is exiled to fxia after rebec severs the portal connecting his plan to dominaria in the caves of Coos the caves of the Damned this historical tragedy the incomprehensible loss of life and progress is forever immortalized in The Saga the fall of the thran the thran are obliterated the once glistening Jewel of civilization of Ingenuity and promise hopelessly lost the fall of the thran creates a power vacuum the consequence of which lead to cultural and technological regression over Generations as much as forgotten over Millennia new kingdoms rise dominaria map is carved as regions like zaler and corondor assume more power wield greater clout this is the time of Legends and it's in the span that mythical figures similar to Heracles and Sun mukong of our own history carve their names into dominaria Endeavor great deeds and cement their infamy individuals such as dhin blackblade and gadon deada conflict in Vile blood Feud the dragon speaker citri scarzam conquers through death and fire much of corondor the progenitor of the famous carolan bloodline achieves greatness and solidifies I his family's role in doarian politics chromium rule surviving Elder Dragon battles and defeats his family but simply the time of Legends is a period of uncertainty of darkness and heroism in the aftermath of thran collapse their artifacts and ruins remain however and call forth in Whispers for the Intrepid to uncover their secrets across the Multiverse ancient history is carved as societies rise from obscurity on the plane of aravo humanoids emerge at the end of the dawning age in which dragons ruled absolutely through their Mastery of Magic the elder dragons of aravo attempted to teach this wondrous but volatile power to the new races knowledge that ultimately leads to the conflict endemic of the blood age on innistrad due to blight and starvation Edgar marov develops the curse of vampirism to save his family and the eldrazi Titans are first noticed by ugan the spirit dragon on his sojourn through the blind eternities these beings are plain consumers forces of nature that might very well be Keystone actors in The Ecology of the Multiverse in roughly -500 AR they are lured to the manor Rich plain of sendar and imprisoned by the coordinated effort of ugan the core lithomancer nahiri native of the plane and the vampire ire plainswalker saurin marov son of Edgar this act swws the seeds of tragedy and violence that will take thousands of years to bear fruit it also instigates the formation of the royal on zendar the plane's natural response to what it views as infection by the presence of the elrazi and so it is that this Epoch comes to a close with awesome and deadly events set in motion events of which few are aware and that which none could have predicted but nonetheless set the blind eternities on a precarious course this is the age of urza the most conspicuous individual of the Multiverse a man of deep motives of flaws and Ambitions of great genius and even greater power he is among the most notorious of all characters his overwhelming presence dominates this Epoch as we see him transcend to plainswalker status and toil for thousands of years in Desperate Grand strategy against his fiercest foe a game that consumes him entirely and leads ultimately to his demise as he works in dominaria defense against the dark God yagos encroachment but all this is yet to unfold as a young boy unassuming and unknown is born alongside a younger brother in the year0 AR urza and Mishra natives of terier the continent whose kingdoms are born upon the skeletons of the now ancient thran trained from an early age in the skills of artifice and archaeology with inquisitive minds and thirst for knowledge their fraternal rivalry drives them to Great Heights as they seek desperately to outshine one another while beneath the tutelage of tokha a master archaeologist Tasha's interest is in thran artifacts and she establishes several dig sites within the desert around Kos to uncover hidden relics and ascertain wisdom urza and Mishra showcase their budding Ingenuity by drafting prototypes of thr devices by improving designs and rediscovering lost means of Labor and travel we see such Creations in the ornithopter the ulet and the sui while surveying the desert the trio uncover a pattern that leads them deep into the caves of Coos whose Chambers are haunted by The Echoes of the ancient thran it's here in the Hall of tagen that Mishra and urza happen upon an item that forever Alters their fate and that of dominaria the Power Stone used by rebec those ages past to seal from the plane yoth and his fian Horrors sits at top a mantle in the center of the chamber the stone calls out to each brother a siren whisper that draws them closer they grab for the stone and at once a magical pulse is unleashed the pair are pushed to the wall and the Power Stone fractures into two pieces disparate but nonetheless part of one hole this we see Illustrated in the card splitting the Power Stone whose flavor text is full of for boing as the glowing Stone broke apart so too did the last shre of the brother's Bond a terrible consequence of this action goes unnoticed by all with the seal shattered nothing holds evil at Bay dark Forces stir on fxia and yoth is once more free to exert his Covetous influence on dominaria free to instigate a return from this fracture the might Stone and weak Stone are born and possessed by urza and Mishra respectively these stones have great power but they also have an in Aura Envy avarice resentment stir between the brothers their fraternal competing sours as Mishra and urza descend to scathing remarks in paranoia they seek the other's Stone bickering grows into confrontation and ultimately explosive conflict as urza and Mishra use their Stones against one another caught in the fry is Tasha who tries to diffuse their row but whose life is inevitably forfeit horror strikes both brothers especially Mishra who cannot dare face the truth and escapes into the night this quarrel is seen in the cards brotherhood's end an overwhelming remorse neither Brother can forgive themselves or each other for what unfolded and the next several years see each man in separation develop into a genius a wielder of power and artifice Mishra ascends the ranks of desert Nomads known as is the fagi ultimately becoming the tribal leader after using his power Stone to tame an ancient fian dragon engined named Makwa urza meanwhile stations himself in the city of KW within the kingdom of yosha marries into the royal family and becomes Chief artificer of a workshop that gains great Renown across all terier resentment bruis between yosha and fagi as flash points of contention erupt along the sari marches the fractious border Zone separating these Mighty kingdoms after many deadly skirmishes a summit is assembled to include all political forces on the continent where grievances can be aired and greater Bloodshed avoided both Mishra and urza act as Liaisons for their respective kingdoms and they share an awkward Reunion where emotion hangs thick in the air and the chasm separating both men becomes palpable voices boom and blood Rises the peace talks Verge on collapse which we see in the illustration of bitter reunion the flavor text of which reads the peace Summit proved The Grudge between urza and Mishra could end only in blood unknown to urza the king of Krug plotted to strike with swift violence against his fagi enemies under the oses of Peace a group of ornithopters of urza's own design launch a blistering bum bombardment that kills many gathered and sends the summit into pandemonium hope of a resolution dissipates in the blaze war is the final act for those from whom discourse and diplomacy have fled their festering resentment denies any stable interaction and spurred by urza and mishra's Loathing war engulfs the continent the peace Summit treachery ignites what becomes known as the brothers War as yosha declares itself against the fagi witnessed in The aonomus Saga the conflict is a generational tragedy a war that lasts decades and sees the destruction of countless cities depletion of innumerable resources and loss of tens of thousands of lives as Mishra and 's machines revolutionize battle becoming exceedingly destructive in their capacity to each brother more power is conferred their genius and Leadership essential to combat one another standing in opposition is the third path an assemblage of wizards Mystics and pacifists beleaguered by the conflict who've recently rediscovered magic and the essence of Mana their archaeologists happen upon an inscrutable artifact a bowl whose surface is etched with ancient glyphs and whose Aura exudes for boing the gothian CX is a construct of Unknown Origin but realized to possess immeasurable destruction as its inscription reads wipe the land clear bring the ending topple the empires to bring a fresh start call the end fill with memories of the land as the brothers War rages yoth the dark God of fxia sends through the unsealed portal at Coos his demonic prer gixs to seow Discord weaken terier and prepare it for invasion in Mishra gixs finds the weakness of ambition fear and greed and through these emotions seeks to undo him the war radicalizes mishra's worst qualities and his court of advisers is soon infiltrated by gi's minions who whisper fian lies to erode both Mind and Spirit as Mishra ages his body weakens fear of death and concomitant promise of immortality espoused by the gians drive the fagi ruler to undergo the first steps of fianation he is increasingly replaced by metal and oil his soul Twisted Beyond Redemption the final stages of the brothers War see a continent denuded of all resources Barren and lifeless a final confrontation unfolds on argoth an island off the coast recently discovered and replete with much needed riches both Mishra and urza themselves lead their War hosts and as conflict ensues the fian gicks arrive with an expeditionary Force to destroy the weakened armies death and Mayhem in Gulf argoth an inevitable meeting brings the two brothers face to face for the first time in years and horror Dawns upon öa Mishra is no longer himself the man he once was has been replaced by artifice empowered only by lingering hatred it's a Pang urza's heart cannot bear witnessed in cards like gruesome realiz ation and retaliation the later reading a foul metallic stench clogged 's senses it was then he knew his brother was no more with the gothian silx in his possession öa completes the invocation that unleashes Devastation a moment that reverberates through the entire Multiverse the silx blast destroys all of argoth in a stroke the brothers war ends as both armies and gx's fyans are eviscerated energy from the blast roils across dominaria and shifts abruptly the plane itself unforeseen consequences of the CX blast Loom The Shard of 12 worlds begins to form a metaphysical barrier that encapsulates 12 Plaines and greatly isolates them from the rest of the Multiverse this once again severs yagos connection to dominaria and a slow but Unstoppable Ice Age descends upon the plane that will consume much in Frost as for urza a latent plainswalker spark housed within the United might and weak Stone ignites and the man whose eyes are replaced by the power Stones ascends to the status of Plaines Walker consumed by remorse and seeking Absolution ö now initiates Millennial long fight against fxia in atonement for his sins in War's aftermath Survivor of now devastated terier shun all manner of artifice technology magic and progress out of fear a Dark Age of superstition Reigns as cultures and civilizations regress The Genius of the brothers forgotten to time Winters lengthen the land remains fallow this period of time roughly 170 AR sees the lens shift from terier to the remote island of Saria where in five Empires VI for dominance each affiliated with a race and a color of Mana the red aligned Mountain dwarves are overrun by invading Orcs and goblins the elves of Havenwood fall to creatures of their own invention when thads multiply Beyond containment the merfolk of velia are caught off guard by Legions of homads that have dispersed from the far north as plummeting temperatures change ocean currents the eban legion 2 are defeated by their own hubris following the creation by endr SAR of throlls and their subsequent Rebellion it's here that tev Lade assumes the mantle of teish zat a draconic Plains Walker interested only in causing pain and torment aaia the last Bastion of the Fallen Empires is destroyed by th as he sends forth Legions Of Orcs and goblins thus sared is left to ruin as master L th and Mindless thallid Rome as magecraft and artifice are more aggressively persecuted by Dark Age Dogma several Havens have established in secret to house Mages and Scholars two of these are the conclave of Mages and Lam notably a descendant of urza and Mishra grows to prominence Joda in his studies and wanderings happens upon a fountain of youth that bestows significant longevity on the man he navigates with cunning the intrigues surrounding the conclave including the feud between Lord ifth and marel with near immortality jodo will continue to be a force in dominaria history and his learning grants him Mastery over all five colors of Mana by the year 600 AR dominari is fully consumed by the Ice Age cold hunger familiar to all and The Shard of the 12 worlds has now completely coalesced this traps plains walkers and other creatures of the blind eternities within and it's this claustrophobic imprisonment that acts as impetus for many events as Walkers attempt dangerous plots to escape we must briefly Embark from The Shard of 12 worlds and visit the far Fong plain of Exelon where around this time the fourth age draws near a close within the hollow core of the plane little is known of the age but it's common belief that dinosaurs ruled in abundance before for falling to the civilizations that came after the fourth people existed alongside these monstrous beasts one among them knew of the Twilight that descended and of the Fate that awaited the closing of the age his name was akot and through fear of death he endeavored to become a mortal folklore holds that he performed dark and terrible rituals on his own people sacrificed and fed off their energy until none lived save him as aot's accumulated power he witnessed the dawning of a new age and with it New Gods chimel the inner son acted as progenitor of exelon's deep Gods as they came into Divine being from her Essence akot seized an opportunity in which to secure his position he killed the black align deep God drank of its Essence and ascended himself to the status of godhood his body twisting into that of a massive bat the Advent of the fifth age sees establishment of the old Tech civilization within the core the fifth people revered chimel the inner Sun as source of their existence in bearer of light as the old Tech advanc in agriculture architecture and Society many among them are plagued by distant Whispers promising life eternal and power beyond comprehension akot the great betrayer speaks Beyond the Veil of life and death to the old Tech enthralls them with honeyed words to prey on their fears and their avarice in hopes of using them to assert his power at his behest the whispering War ravages across exelon's Hollow interior as olte fight ruthlessly against aot's cultists the demon god is defeated however with the arrival of the deep Gods who defend the fifth people the bat is imprisoned and the Golden Age of the sun follows a millennia long period of prosperity peace and expansion for the old Tech peoples but nothing lasts forever the age of sun is cast Into Darkness in roughly the 1900s AR with the arrival of the phori a race of extra planer Giants with a capability to travel through the blind eternities aboard Advanced navigational ships the famor arrive in their shred ships first requesting a peaceful settlement Within the core as they seek safety from an unknown threat relations quickly cool however and evolve into outright conquest and colonization as the fomori take by force control of the core and imprison chimel thus Begins the Night War a conflict between the olte and their increasingly tyrannical oppressors that lasts nearly three centuries and seize much blood leing ol Tech resistance erupts in sporadic violence but after a string of victories Garner momentum they grow more Brazen in their strikes against the FI eventually exelon's natives attack the heart of fi power and rest chimel from her prison thus invigorated the inner Sun allows for the return of the deep Gods who fight alongside the ultech in destroying all remnants of the Invaders and their Shard ships the night war ends in the 2200s AR with profound consequences first first and most alarming is a return of the demon god akot from his prison and reemergence of his cultists second is a great Exodus from the core as Intrepid adventurers make their way through exelon's extensive network and discover the world that exists on the plain's outer surface we leave Exelon at a fulcrum in its history the wheels of time and Fortune turning drastically as events heat up amidst dominaria Ice Age ö a Plains Walker who has spent over 1,000 years Shoring defenses and protecting The Shard of 12 worlds against fian incursion now prepares an offensive he rescues the defective n and fian Sleeper Agent zancha who possesses a self-will Beyond yagm moth's control and enlists her Aid in a direct assault on the dark God's plane out of guilt and hatred urza launches an individual Crusade against all of Fire xia his attack Burns through several layers of the plane but is stalled before it reaches yag moth's core zancha uses the distraction to steal her hearstone from fian Vats seen in the illustration and flavor text of ill gotten gains urza thought it a crusade zancha knew it was a robbery the plains Walker meanwhile is psychologically assailed by Yago himself and the dark God's touch brings Madness to urza's mind shatters his spirit and severely weakens him this we see in the illustration of corrupt even with power armor with Godlike abilities and a massive Dragon engine urza fails in his Conquest he's forced to retreat to Sarah's realm an artificial plane of allwhite Mana ruled by the plainswalker Sarah who administers urza's convalescence although Sarah heals his body her skills are unable to mend urza's Madness and his Persona grows increasingly unstable shortly urza and zancha are found by probing fian search parties whose presence brings corrupting black Mana to the plane over the next several centuries bans work to corrupt and Conquer Sarah's realm for now urza zancha and Sarah flee and the Plaines Walker entrust stewardship of her plane to the Archangel radiant meanwhile on dominaria theer's Ice AG nations are built- at top Frozen ruins of their ancient progenitors the proud peoples of keldor fight constantly with the Barbarian tribes of Northern baldia the fin horn Forest shelters bands of elves and human Rangers who worship the halfelf plainswalker frees as a God and protector of the woods in the Frozen West a powerful Necromancer named Lim dull Gathers strength and Builds an army under the Knights of stromgald to assault Kor and undermine the leadership of King Daran granted additional powers from the plainswalker lra for his eternal servitude limo's Army of Undead threatens all of terier if the factions don't unite Joda the Eternal jaia Ballard an impetuous pyromancer and fres all work to form a coalition between the Ice Age factions and and confront limle his army is defeated in battle and the Necromancer retreats in the waning days of this Epoch for great forces conspire to end the Ice Age and shatter The Shard of 12 worlds ambitious plains walkers imprisoned for centuries wish to escape The Shard by jumping to the Rogue plane of chandel which moves erratically through the Multiverse the Walkers ferin lra and tesat manipulate others into attending the summit of the null Moon Under pretense of combined effort to destroy The Shard what they intend however is to turn the Plaines Walkers against one another in hopes that one will be slain their death would release sufficient energy for the three to Plains walk to chandel and Escape The Shard the summit devolves into Anarchy and though no Walker is slain the Elder Dragon chromium Rule and spell Squire ridel are lra his minion Lim dool verin and teish flee but perhaps the most significant outcome of the Summit is in fr's casting of the world spell in 2934 AR this spell unleashes immense magical energy on par with the silx blast it shatters The Shard of 12 worlds frees interplaner travel to the rest of the Multiverse and for The Mortals of dominaria it ends the time of ice brings about a great thaw and inundates the land in the flood age this Epoch comes to a close with change on the horizon planner healing and tumult for which few can [Music] prepare the world spells immediate aftermath is disastrous for dominaria as flood waters drown many continents terier said Ates into six Isles its ice AG civilizations are swept away on the tides of Time and new empires rise to take their place in this warming World fin Horn's Denis are displaced to the sentient Forest of yavimaya Kor and Balia are united as new argive under the guidance of arch Mage Joda they're threatened however by the spirit of the Mage maril who possesses G Bard and looks to Machines of the ancient past to wage war on their en enemies resurrected fian War beasts destroy Sev and others among Marcel's enemies Joda intervenes dispels the Wizard's spirit and Gia ignites her latent spark ascending to plainswalker but marel isn't the only one who looks to revive the past haidar a charismatic cryomancer and leader of the rhyme wind Mages seeks to return dominaria Ice Age floods and warmer temperatures bring with them disease stagnation death he enters a dark Alliance first with the infernal forces of the stral and seeks wisdom hidden in Lim doll's Fortress at treser horn here he gleans knowledge of fian war machines and searches for a means of Awakening them this next brings haidar in League with the Vampire gazol Queen of the pestilent city of Krav he requires the power of the kakan elementalists to create magically infused Ice Crystal and reanimate the long derel machines haar and his fans are successful at first but soon Madness seeps into his mind and the Machines of War Rampage chaotically eventually an alliance between new argive and yavimaya destroys the Ryme wind Mages and allows dominaria thaw to continue theier now drowned and scarred no longer stands as the beacon of progress the continent of corondor Rises to prominence as it becomes a refuge for many displaced people across dominaria here under the guidance of five PLS Walkers the wisest of the plane meet in the citystate of minad the sages of minad build an impressive library and dedicate their time to sharing knowledge and seeking Enlightenment their first summit occurs in the year 3000 AR far from dominaria on the distant plane of Ola two factions of PL Walkers VI for dominance the toath and the Ancients ortha is a land of abundance and Tranquility but its very existence is threatened when war escalates between the rivals battle consumes the entire plane and mages are forced to draw from erratic Rifts in the fabric of the Multiverse to fuel their spells a dramatic end to the war comes in 3200 AR with the ringing of the Apocalypse chime a device whose devast is so complete that all plains walkers all Mana all light and life are consumed it even disrupts the Mana L lines of other ples including dominaria and the Japanese inspired plane of Kagawa weakening the veil that divides its mortal realm from the spirit realm much of Ola becomes a dead zone that eats the Mana of any being who walks its surface with the fabric of his reality disrupted the kamaga and Dao Takashi of igano crafts a plot to secure Eternal peace and prosperity for his people on the night of his daughter's birth K performs a sacrilegious ritual and pierces the veil between Mortal and spiritual a trespasser in the spirit realm K seeks the child of okachi the greatest of Kami and Kami of the veil Illustrated in the card that which was taken its spiritual Essence grants Lord K immortality invulnerability to the Kami of the plane and immeasurable power which he uses to secure his vision this heinous crime doesn't go unpunished and K's actions instigate the 20 yearlong Kami War which ruins the plane as the spirit world turns against Mortal only by the merging of the taken one with takashi's daughter maoa is the war ended United as the sisters of Flesh and spirit they defeat both OK kagachi and Takashi claiming for themselves the role of Guardians over the veil and rulers of the spiritual and Mortal Realms respectively elsewhere in the Multiverse ugan observes the danger posed by his brother niichel Bolas and conspires with the Sphinx Azor to bring about bolas's defeat Azor sacrifices his plainswalker spark to create an artifact with the power to trap Walkers known as The Immortal son the Sphinx Waits on the isolated plane of Exelon with the prepared trap while ugan Ventures out to lure his brother unfortunately for Azor now marooned on Exelon ugan never returns instead the spirit dragon is confronted on his adoptive plan of tarir by his brother and bulas uses deceit to manipulate tarr's natives against ugan an ultimate battle breaks out between the Twins and ends with ugin's final death in 3279 AR or is it some 12200 years later the plainswalker Saran V will travel through time at the Nexus of ugin's Tomb and save the spirit dragon seen in the illustration of kru of Fate whose flavor text reads ugan whispered summons LED Saran V to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal T's fate the Primal battle between ugan and nickel Bolas this act spares ugin's life and even though the dragon takes centuries to convalesce it has profound ramifications that alter both tarir and the Multiverse history but now we return to the exploits of urza plainswalker and zancha under the pretense that The Shard of 12 worlds remains intact and that it safeguards dominaria from Yago urza first travels to the plain of equilor seeking Enlightenment for from its Denis before returning to teres a urza however is not himself his madness has progressed since the attack on fxia and the plains Walker grows increasingly cloistered and erratic he willfully blinds himself to threats posed by an invasion of fian sleeper agents across the plane the dark God plots for a grand return and all the while Domin Aria's greatest Defender is consumed by remorse zancha breaks urza from his Madness when she introduces to him a man whose likeness is reminiscent of Mishra with senses restored the Plaines Walker fabricates artifacts to slay the embedded fian agents he then travels to the caves of Coos the Hall of tagon still a strong and open portal to the metallic plane and fights there the demon Prader GS urza's old Nemesis and the one responsible for fian incursions it's only by zona's sacrifice that gixs is defeated and the portal closed zona's death is the final act that restores Clarity to urza he needs allies he needs strong genetic Bloodlines he needs time to create a weapon powerful enough to eradicate yagm moth entirely from the Multiverse this Epoch comes to a close with fevered visions of the Legacy weapon with fian war looming on the horizon and with Earth is a Plains Walker preparing as best he can for a fight that will decide dominaria [Music] Fate The Legacy a collection of artifacts and individuals connected through undeniable magic and the forces of Fate consumes urza in the centuries leading to his confrontation with fxia first however dominaria must be adequately defended princible the ples walker with assistance of the master wizard Baron assembles the pl's greatest mines and founds in 3285 AR the tarian academy on a secluded Island free from sleeper agents watchful eyes here Wizards and artificers are trained to develop new technologies and magic with which they armed dominaria a young joa and tfairy both intelligent adepts are brought to the school where their minds are sharpened urza and Bar and busy themselves with creating probes to send through time Rifts back into the past the Plaines Walker hopes that by neutralizing yoth before he first rose to power the present might be spared most probes can't handle the constraints of the time machine until 's Discovery shown in the art and flavor text of stroke of Genius after aund failed experiments uro was stunned to find that common silver passed through the portal undamaged he immediately mediately designed a Golem made of metal he fuels the Golem design with Zan's hearstone and creates a sentient artifact in K silver Golem before sufficient testing is conducted however the sleeper agent discovers the academy and unleashes destructive fian negators the tarian academy is in Ruins all of its Wizards slain or scattered K is sent back in time to stop the assault though he sto calls the attack such meddling with the time streams destroys the temporal aperture it explodes in a torrent of magic levels the academy and leav scars of slow and fast time across the island su's art and flavor texts illuminate this moment the flow of time was disrupted like a flooding River it Rose from its banks Taria was drowned in an instant that stretched toward Infinity nearly a decade later the Plains Walker and baron return to the island to build a new Academy and discover that Crick has survived within a Chasm of fast time where he breeds fian hordes at a blistering Pace urza spends the next several years Gathering allies to confront Crick on the volcanic island of shiv he seeks the aid of reborn primeval dragon daras and the dragons and goblins of the realm urza also discovers the ancient thr Mana rig which had once produced power stones to to fuel their impressive weapons he joira and K stoke the forge once more and begin Power Stone fabrication to energize 's designs the plains Walker next travels to yavimaya to enlist the sentient Forest stating that fxia threatens all that is green and good but yavimaya's memory is long and the forest remembers the ruination urza Unleashed during his brother's War it imprisons him for a time but ultimately learns that he's the only force that can contend with fxia and relents its voice the marrow Avatar molani grants urza the weather seed which forms the foundational Hull of living wood in the plains Walker's plans for a ship that can travel the Plains and surgically strike at yagm moth's forces the ship he enjoy or design is christened sky ship Weatherlight its maiden voyage captained by the shiven artificer is a harrowing rescue mission to Sarah's realm nearly 1,000 years have passed since urza and Zan's initial visit the artificial plane Teeters on desolation black Mana has corrupted what remains of Sarah's benevolent protectors the Archangel Radiance mind has been twisted and survivors are hunted by both her and fian Invaders erso wishes to defeat yag moth's forces and Salvage the plane but Sarah's realm is beyond cleansing and radiant is deaf to his pleas she Harbors animosity which we hear in the F text of Knighthood he has returned he who brought the dark ones he who poisoned our Paradise how shall we greet him with Swift and certain death while radiant does combat with the plains Walker joa organizes evacuation of as many sarin refugees as can fit on the weather light while its powerful cannons cut through swalls of fans the Archangel nearly kills urza but as she rips out his might Stone and weak Stone eyes the artifacts clear her mind long enough for realization to Dawn and radiant commits herself to death Illustrated in the ardan text of vindicate nothing more can be done for Sarah's crumbling realm urza uses his immense power to collapse the plane and preserves its stored energy within sky ship weatherl light's Power Stone engine they returned to dominaria with a contingent of sarin refugees with this bridge burned and with cric's forces eliminated by combined doarian effort urza is given Breathing Room in roughly 3385 AR to initiate the next phase in his legacy the Bloodlines project he intends to control genetic breeding of noble lines over centuries to create the perfect Soldiers with which he might combat yagm moth's fian it's an interesting parallel that the sworn enemy of the dark God would resort to his own style of completion and Perfection under guidance of Baron and his wife rain all of the tarian academy begins work on the project in one form or another but yog moth doesn't remain Idol he himself enacts plans for a grand Invasion under the stewardship of croag a vexian Inner Circle member and davl development and expansion of the pocket plane known as Wrath begins in Earnest wrath is an artificial World constructed from the flowstone created in its Central stronghold and it's tied metaphysically to dominaria yoth intends for it to be a staging area for fian war hosts when prepared a temporal overlay of the plane will allow countless Invaders to cross the Blind eternities and attack dominara from all sides even as wrath grows temporal anomaly allow fian scouting parties to besiege doarian civilizations especially sites of urza's project in this manner hundreds of captives are taken and used as slaves in wrath's pits as first even car or ruler of Wrath davl also spends decades perfecting fian negators which become increasingly dangerous in their attacks on urza Plains Walker and there's descent within Baron's tarian Academy the Gen genius gaatha defects and begins his own bloodline project among the war hosts of Kel with his genetic manipulation the kons grow into a physically Superior and aggressive fighting force on the plane while yoth and urza continue their Twisted game many happenings unfold elsewhere in the Multiverse on the plane of arios the barbarity and violence of the blood age gives way to reason as the elder dragons found strick Haven University and share their magical wisdom with Mortals thus Begins the Mystic age and the college grows to become the beacon of Enlightenment across the plane it attracts like moths to a flame those with potential the continent of tzone in the Eastern reaches of Exelon Falls from its golden age when according to myth the enigmatic Sphinx Azor withdraws with the immortal sun and disappears into the unknown a powerless Civil War erupts between a family of nobility and the strict adherence of the church known as the apostas war that lasts several centuries meanwhile the eldrazi who had been kept in stasis on zendar for Untold Generations stir in their chains though nahiri the lithomancer awakens in time to maintain their prison elrazi influence corrupts The Mortals of goldra and spawns the pl's first vampires niri seeks out ugan and saurin to warn them of the Titans activity and request their assistance ugan lies inert in tarr's Earth while saurin remains unaware on innistrad he's just created the Archangel Avison as guardian of innistrad and protector of balance alongside the magical prison known as the hell Vault avison's charge is to defend Humanity against inist strat's evils and curb his own rac's debauched practices for he knows that if humans die so too with the vampires niiri Plains walks to inrad and confronts saurin their argument soon grows heated and brings avison's intervention the angel in the core fight before saurin banishes niri into the hell Vault where she will remain for thousands of years on the doarian continent of jamura the Plains Walker in temporal Arch Mage tfairy continues his studies on the time stream countless experiments Fray the fabric of reality around his Island however and tfairy attempts to restore the damage he caused to the time stream he unleashes a wave of Mana with an unforeseen consequence he and all living things on the island phase completely out of existence in 4,000 AR for 200 years tarry's Island lies Beyond time but the energy Unleashed by his phasing spell draws the attention of three powerful beings who descend upon jamora and work against one another in what will be known as The Mirage War mangara a skilled politician from corondor Joel Rael a beast master and old friend of tfairy and carve an ambitious Mage entangle themselves within jamuran politics and their Mirage war devastates zir femf and other nations the war erupts in Earnest in 4195 AR and while tfairy busies himself returning the phased Island to the time stream he works indirectly through visions and dreams to Aid Defenders against car's ruthless attacks war ends with mangar's release from and car's imprisonment in the Amber prison it's now that yoth pressures urza into his PL next phase gather and empower the Legacy weapon which is told mainly through the Weatherlight Saga and the actions of its Heroes by rexan attacks on bloodline project stations around Balia terer and elsewhere jeopardize its progress the perfect human the culmination of centuries of genetic manipulation manifests in the child Gerard of Clan capashen who is whisked away to safety by K as Balia suffers yakas forces Gerard is adopted into the family of sadar condo of jamura where he grows and befriends condo's son Vu but trust gives way to contempt and hatred as vu is shadowed by Gerard's glories when he fails his Clan's Coming of Age trial V's life is spared by captian's intervention but he is exiled from his family Vengeance twists his heart and approached by fian agents V transforms into the shape shifter and new even car of Wrath vrath he vows not to rest until capashen and all he holds dear is destroyed in the Years leading up to Invasion vrath abduct CE the new captain of sky ship Weatherlight and imprisons her within his stronghold on wrath Gerard and K gather allies across dominaria the likes of tangar IAI Anna covac and others aboard Weatherlight as they give Chase with the sky ship's ability to shift through Plains they land on wrath suffer many debilitations and injuries within the artificial ples Forest furnace and death pits including a harrowing escape from the adaptable mind species known as slivers who guard the stronghold and a brutal battle against weatherl light's terrible Nemesis the Skyship Predator Captain by gravin ilve perhaps the most significant outcome of their assault on wrath is Gerard's discovery of yagos invasion Illustrated in the art and flavor text of invasion plans Gerard studied the globe as Miry kept watch suddenly his eyes widened this is the dominaria thousands of machines of War gather on wrath flowstone continues to expand the artificial plane the wrathy overlay fast approaches capashen and dominaria are running out of time though the crew retrieve Captain CE Weatherlight suffers heavy losses including the death of Mary the abandonment of IAI and cac's transformation into a vampire the sky ship hobbles through the plains until it lands on mercadia mercadia is a realm known for its corruption and opulence it's situated near dominaria in the Blind eternities and shares a history its peoples are descendants of th survivors brought by the plainswalker DED at the height of the thran Civil War Millennia ago mercadia city is ruled by a secretive magistrate under the employ of vrath and none aboard Weatherlight know it but the shape shifter has snuck aboard and SWS Discord among the heroes under disguise vrath faces his adopted brother in a grand duel but is ultimately defeated by Gerard and so is the fian cell operating within mercadia bolra is deposed and slain back on wrath by covax who installs himself as the new even car the weather light flies through the plains to bring warning to urza about yagas plans but they arrive too late and are instantly thrown on the the defensive in 4205 AR the dark God of fxia launches his scheme centuries in the making and all of dominaria cowers as The Invasion Begins the first phase of invasion is a forward assault from the planer portal that remains inside the caves of Coos and several other surgical strikes meant to weaken defense doarian cast all differences aside and form a United coalition to drop Drive battle to yagm moth's forces aided by the metran soldiers produced by urza's Bloodlines While others are engaged urza seeks out other Plaines Walkers to lead a direct assault on fxia where they'll detonate devastating Soul bombs of his own design and obliterate yoth this mission is Illustrated in The Saga urza assembles the Titans urza approaches his one-time pupil to faery who declines his request in instead the temporal Mage saves his homeland from desolation by phasing all of zir from the time stream seen into Fair's protection into F's moat thus creating the ziran void meanwhile Heroes of the Weatherlight and Coalition successfully resist fian attack and seal the portal inside Coos they aren't afforded a moment of respit the second phase of invasion commences with the wrathy overlay this dangerous Gambit physically shifts the entire pocket plane of Wrath a top dominaria with destructive results there's no front line no direction of attack within moments the entire plane is a wash with countless fian soldiers embarking from their staging areas the next punch in this war of strikes and counter strikes is thrown by urza with the Titans assembled and equipped with Advanced power armor they strike at the very heart of fxia as they plant their soul bombs the group is betrayed however by teish SAT but the plans Walker's duplicity was foreseen by urza he kills teish and uses the released energy to charge the soul bombs explosions erupt across fia's metallic surface and the Titans stand triumphant but before the crucial bombs initiate a chain reaction within fxia core some seed planted long ago within ö ayche blooms he looks at fire reia and sees a plane of artificial Perfection of paradise he cannot bring himself to destroy such a miracle and disables the remaining Soul bombs a change of heart from Yago most fervent enemy comes as a shock to all urza submits himself to fxia in the corrupting Whispers of its God Gerard capashen is himself captured and brought before yoth his heart is broken from the death of his love Hannah and his resolve crumbles as he meets old companions since corrupted by fxia in covax erai and even urza he relinquishes to evil and strikes a bargain with yoth he'll fight and slay urza in the fian arena in exchange for Hannah's Resurrection this we see depicted in the card Yago file offering Gerard decapitates urza Plains Walker but the Hannah promised isn't truly his beloved merely aimile without her Essence Gerard strikes at the replica and is thrown from fxia with urza head in toe as a Plains Walker urza still lives through the ordeal and urges Gerard to complete the Legacy in the climax of fian invasion yoth himself appears on dominaria as a massive cloud of pure black Mana a miasma that kills instantly he rolls over continents and millions perish the weather likee crew attempt to unleash the white man have preserved in the null moon to Halt him and though the strike severely weakens him yoth continues his Advance with no time Gerard gathers the Legacy the collection of items and persons including the sky ship urza's Power Stone eyes K's Hearthstone and capashen himself as key United in the Legacy weapon a blinding light of pure Mana washes over the entire plane yagm moth's body dies and his presence Withers wherever it's felt his Legions perish the corruption of fxia is eradicated dominaria ancient enemy is no more and the plane is spared from Oblivion the discharge of the Legacy weapon consumes ö plainswalker Gerard kashin and K silver Golem but the lingering spark preserved in 's Power Stone eyes attaches itself to K as does Gerard's essence the silver Golem ascends as a Plains Walker an amalgamation of all three Heroes both the protagonist and antagonist of magic's greatest story arc have met their fate this Epoch ends with dominaria and ruins but with hope that a brighter Dawn is to come in the Years following his Ascension K travels the Multiverse to learn and to forget he uses his Newfound power to create an artificial World from a dying one and transforms it into argentum argentum is a plane of mathematical Perfection it's cold hard populated only by K's Golem Creations from his seat the Lord Of argentum Watches Over much of the Multiverse through spherical surveillance artifacts keen on preserving good against evil a probe he sends to dominaria short circuits becomes temperamental and crash lands on the continent of otaria in roughly 4,300 AR one century after the fian invasion IND dominaria still heals from terrible wounds Generations removed many of its Denis know yoth and his Doom only in story but other threats still lurk K's faulty probe is discovered by chainer a member of the black aligned cabal faction that rules part of the continent it's discovered to possess great power it reads the ambition of those who gaze upon it and Promises realization of their desires it's called the marari and it pulses with power within the cabal vaults the mari's presence and its corrupting influence instigate a terrible War across otaria as all seek to claim it the cycle of Desire cards showcases the leaders of votus factions obsessed with the marari and nearly all fall to ruin Kamal a barbarian from mountainous paria claims the artifact but falls under its thr in a frenzy he lashes out at much of his clan and mortally wounds his sister Jessica this shatters the spell and clears his mind but Kamal can do little to save his sister he Retreats Into the Heart of the croen forest plunges his marari hilted sword into to the ground and swears an oath of druidic pacifism jesa is captured by the cabal and brought before their patriarch he uses his killing touch on her but the presence of a latent plainswalker spark within instead transforms Jessica into Fage the Untouchable otaria tumult is Amplified by the reemergence of the num Mena the Mages who usurped power from dominari Primeval dragons in bygone days the blue Newman lallen is reincarnated as exodor master of illus Magic the black kuar is worshiped as the cabal's God and the essence of the red avaro infused into the city bearing its name exodor is banished from cabal City and left heartbroken following the death of his loved Nivea in the fighting pits to F's killing touch in his misery he unlocks lalin's latent power and discovers he can make the intangible tangible and create real things from illusion he fabricates a resplendant fax Sim of his lost love in the form of the Angel acroma and charges her with vengeance against Fage and the cabal acroma war ravages otaria and coincides with proliferation of the highly invasive and dangerous race of slivers revived a century after the wrathy overlay by researchers of the riptide project the Mages in their experiments lost control of the slivers who quickly overran the research facility and spread from their isolated island to Mainland otaria the tragedy of their Folly is heard in the flavor text of Crypt sliver death couldn't contain the slivers what made us think we could war and infestation are furthered by mysterious mutations spreading through otaria flora and fauna beasts transform grotesque forests explode with bizarre adaptations and many sentient races fall victim to mutagenic growth the marari plunged into the Earth and forgotten in the croen forest has leeched into the continent it disperses its manif field Aura across all things its energy is responsible for the Transformations and it draws otaria inward towards savagery and violence its radiating power is heard in the flavor Tex of Centaur Glade the marari called to the centaurs and all who heard it were forever changed all these factors and forces seee to a boil erupting in Climax as Fage does battle with a chroma and Kamal forsakes his pacifism to end both of them but as he lands a killing blow his blade Cleaves through Fage a chroma and a third individual the energy released and Twisted by their deaths creates a new being Transcendent and awesome Kamal inadvertently gives form to Corona the false god and Avatar of all of dominaria Mana the plane will never be the same Corona draws strength from belief and is empowered by the faith her overwhelming Aura demands all in her presence rever her as a goddess but as her abilities grow Corona's psyche is Twisted by the emotional desire of her supplicants Madness soon encroaches and the false god seeks to dominate all of the plane she first Stokes religious fanaticism Gathering an army of zealous followers from otaria populace hopeless to resist her Splendor while Corona's War devastates otaria it goes no further Kamal alongside the num Mena orchestrate her downfall and though the Wizards are slain by the God and Cal disarmed opportunity opens for another to drive the marari sword through her Corona's death untangles Jessica's Essence that resided within Fage and ignites her latent plainswalker spark kamal's sister is finally restored and Transcendent the energy released signals K and silver Golem to return from argentum he realizes the devastation caused by his erratic probe and takes the marari he's joined in Walking the Multiverse by his new pupil Jessica before the pair begin their Journeys K brings the marari to argentum and houses it as a power source within his Golem Steward the warden named mnar is charged with safeguarding argentum in its Creator's absence K is unaware however that tiny droplets of fian oil remain within his heart stone an ancient terrible enemy gains purches on argentum and the oil works insidiously on mnar twisting his mind and the artificial plane K leaves his plane to its Fate One stained Evil by the promise of a new fxia in the century after Corona's War mnar initiates a grand project to harvest a plainswalker spark for himself instigated by Whispers of the glistening oil he terraforms and populates lifeless argentum transforming it into Meridan MOS synth a bizarre and magical mixture of fungus oil and metal creates organic material from in organic and vice versa peoples captured in mnar Soul traps and brought to meridin from across the Multiverse have metallic outgrowths a fusion of Flesh and metal mnar destroys K's ER golems and assumes the mantle of ruler over his new meridin his spark harvesting project kills thousands and pressures the plain's races to fight against his armies of levelers and Lumin grid disciples a Sunseeker the goblin slow bad and Bosch Iron Golem unite as the heroes against Mears cruelty K is left hopelessly on the sidelines as he finds his Madden Steward has erected metaphysical barriers against Plains walking the mirin are left to their own devices and though mnar nearly succeeds in harvesting G's Plaines Walker spark he's ultimately thwarted and slain the pl's barrier Falls and K returns he melts the body of his Wayward Warden and entrusts the marari care to meriden's protectors still he doesn't see the signs of fian contamination on his metal world and K is denied an opportunity to investigate further as he is drawn by great Strife unfolding on dominara meanwhile the plane of Ravnica approaches The Guild Pack's decam Millennium of existence in the late 4400s AR The Binding magic of azor's document has created a plane of stability and growth as the 10 guilds work to bring much progress in fact it has become one of the densest and technologically advanced Urban centers in the Multiverse the city extends to the very fringes of the plane but discontent simmers in ambitious party seek to destroy the guild paact to assume greater power over ravnik the deir perin zc orchestrates the dissolution of the guild pack which throws the city into chaos several individuals seek to revive RAB n's ancient dragons from newly discovered eggs and Ed them to dominate the guilds the Revival of ravnica's dragons coincides with the reemergence of its ancient deities forces of nature known as the Nephilim empowered by consuming a dragon's corpse these entities threaten ravnica's stability and could plunge it into a new age of barbarity through the actions of agris the parents NIV Mizit and ratos among others the danger of sedc and the Nephilim are curtailed the day is saved but the guild Pack's magic is shattered and an unofficial non-binding Guild Packa does little to Stave the plane's disorder ravnik is left teetering on a knife's edge in 4500 AR after Millennia of reality warping disasters of War destruction the siphoning of mana and frying of the time stream the Multiverse itself reaches a Tipping Point dominaria the Nexus of the blind eternities acts as stage for the temporal crisis time Rifts emerge across the plane portals lead to alternate Futures ancient pasts others treap individuals in pockets of Slow Time others yet eviscerate in fast time great tears in time space drain the plane of Mana without it life is styed as energy evaporates dominaria is left in Desolation the time spiral crisis draws legendary plains walkers from across the Multiverse and heroes from past days it forces them to coordinate their efforts and seal the temporal Rifts or else threaten Oblivion the disaster claims many as Plaines Walkers sacrific themselves and their Sparks to unleash energy sufficient to seal the riffs tfer and joira work to menend the shiven Riff and the chronomancer must relinquish his spark which we hear in the flavor text of tfairy May of zir to save this plane he must forsake all others the ples Walkers frees and Lord windrace survivors of apocalypse and legendary figures sacrificed their lives to seal two major riffs the Golem K is thrown back in time to heal taria's Rift the cost of success is his plans Walker spark and he's hurled Through The Ether towards argentum off the coast of Madara near the ancient Talon Gates the ense of nickel bolas's Spirit lingers his physical form was slain centuries ago by umwa during the madaran uprising he uses the latent spark that resides in venser a mage from bbor to pull a body of himself from a previous timeline and emerges as the eldest reborn Bolas realizes the danger of the temporal crisis and volunteers to close the madaran rift he does so by enthralling and destroying the Plaines Walker lra perhaps the most prolific of dominaria Defenders during this crisis appears in jesa who uses various means to heal three more riffs the third and largest comes at the cost of her own life and Spark but it also unleashes something unforeseen with dominaria massive time Rifts close the plane and the Multiverse are spared destruction as Mana once more surges a Cascade of magic sets off the phenomenon known as the great mending The Mending is an attempt by the Multiverse to heal itself to offset the damage caused over eons and prevent further disruption to reality's fabric many gave everything and their actions are remembered in The Saga The Mending of dominaria this Epoch comes to an end with major ramifications echoing through the blind eternities the great mending represents an inflection point in the history of the Multiverse with profound consequences dominaria no longer holds position as the Nexus of the Multiverse and as such many new planes characters and events are explored that separate themselves from The doarian Driven Arc Plaines Walkers Immortal and N omnipotent beings lose much of their power as The Mending changes the nature of their Sparks no longer will they be able to shape reality to their whim and bend SpaceTime all planer portals in means of traveling the blind eternities without a spark are rendered inert as the Multiverse heals from its many wounds The Mending era is dominated by two overlapping narratives that of the gate watch Saga and that which follows the Grim machinations of Elder Dragon nickel Bolas as he seeks to reverse the great mending and reclaim his Godlike power in the Spell's aftermath the dragon travels to the sun-scorched plain of amonet drawn by the mysterious mineral lazotep and rebuilds a base of influence he decimates the population dominates the minds of its gods and creates a society in which all are brainwashed to worship him as their Savior and God Pharaoh over decades the culture generates thousands of zealous Warriors that are trained into potent killing machines within the god trials and transformed into Lazer plated zombies in the city of the eternals where they await the god Pharaoh's prophesized return bulas then establishes an interplaner League of power Brokers and information gatherers known as the infinite Consortium centered on the city plan of Ravnica here he recruits many Plaines Walkers and manipulates them into furthering his cause with a net cast across the Multiverse bulas pursues all avenues of regaining his lost abilities the fractured plane of arara with its five shards fast approaching a violent Collision Sparks the dragon's interest in 4556 AR he installs himself within the foul Shard of grixis and studies the conflux he infiltrates the societies of all five shards and ferments aggressive posturing within them intent to trigger a planewide war when aara emerges he plans to harness the energy released by The conflux in subsequent Maelstrom to ascend to godhood he employs the plains Walker Saran V and taret of esper to manipulate Alara into fullscale war thus Awakening each shards Obelisk and increasing the malstrom's chaotic magnitude though Bolas gathers much of the mom's Essence he's confronted and ultimately defeated by the nian leonin a Johnny Goldman who conjures a reflection of the dragon's own soul to fight him this we see in the card of Johnny's Last Stand while Bolas orchestrates his Grand designs several other Plaines Walkers come into their own and cross paths with one another through the decades Liliana VES Once A Healer from a renowned doarian household turns to selfishness and the dark arts she wishes to preserve her immortality after The Mending and so signs a binding contract with four demons who take possession of her soul and exchange for Eternal Youth and greater power a trio of young Plaines Walkers become entangled an Intrigue surrounding the dragon scroll an artifact that contains the Ghost Fire Breath of ugan and a secret map of zendar Shandra Nar a Brash pyromancer from the plane of cadesh steals the dragon scroll from its Keepers who hire the infinite Consortium for its return the Consortium tasks M Mage Jace bellerin from the plane of Ven with tracking noar down the two confront each other in a mystical duel from which bellerin gains the advantage and retrieves the scroll still intrigued by its hidden meaning Nar wishes to learn more of the Dragon scroll which brings her into contact with Gideon Jura once a brave if Troublesome vagrant named kith Andora from the plain of Theos they find themselves opponents at first and then tentative allies as Jura seems to care greatly for shandra's well-being after helping her escape a grim fate Gideon discloses the dragon srels connection to the tumultuous and vibrant plane of Zen car meanwhile The Necromancer Liliana follows Whispers of an artifact of immense power known as the chain Vil and created by the ancient race of onaki ogres on the plane of chandel the chain Veil promises freedom from the demons who hold her soul and Liliana seeks the cursed artifact within onaki catacombs once in her possession VES crosses paths with the Huntsman and Shaman Garrick wildspeaker he's whipped into a friend after VES kills a prized Beast he tracked through the forest and he attacks her armed with the chain Veil The Necromancer overcomes Garrick and places a terrible curse on the man which slowly corrupts his magic and his soul she then uses the artifact to slay the demon CED one of her contract holders despite her Growing Power the chain Veil exerts its own influence on Leana nickol bolas's malevolence is next felt on the plane of zendar he alone has uncovered the secret of the Dragon scroll and has studied his brother's chamber in the eye of hugan for reasons known only to him the Elder Dragon wishes to free the eldrazi Titans from their Slumber he sends his agent Saran Vault to the mountains of akum and manipulates Shandra as well as Jace bellerin to converge at the eye fighting breaks out between the three Walkers within the chamber and Shandra unleashes the Ghost Fire held Within the dragon scroll unknown to all the presence of three plainswalker Sparks and the use of ugan Ghost Fire closes the eye of ugan unbinds the hedrin network and awakens the eldrazi Titans the Destroyers of worlds in 4557 AR ulok kelc emerol and their Broods of drones roll across zenar in a Relentless and allc consuming hunger which we see in the card Calamity of the Titans while the zenari natives unite to face the existential threat the Walkers responsible for the aldra release disappear Gideon Jura who had followed Shandra to the mountains of akum remains to fight off the first waves of eldrazi drones but when he sees the menacing Titans looming in the distance he knows that allies are required to win this fight though the alrai are most pressing another danger builds momentum on the plane of Meridan in the 4550s AR over a century since fian oil first stained mnar it has worked to corrupt the core of the world and spread its miasma across the surface yoth might be gone but his dream of perfection remains and takes a unique form as the factions of new fxia rise these fyans embrace all five colors of Mana each led by a powerful Prader who embodies that color's goal of perfection Elish noorn the white aligned prer and head of the machine Orthodoxy Works to assume the mantle of mother of machines the fyans B their time deep within the core until enough force is built and contagion engines have corrupted much of the surface before they launch a brutal war of Conquest in completion against Meridan K who had been flung to the plane after sealing a Time Rift is without his Planes Walker spark and so susceptible to the glistening oil the Mir are hopeless against the onslaught cough of the hammer a v shock native and plains Walker travels to dominaria in search of allies to cleanse his plane here he recruits the ascended vencer who shares friendship with K as well as elth Terell a knight renowned for her sword skill whose past was darkened by traumatic memories of fian enslavement on her own plane the trio attempt to lead Mir and resistance liberate K and wipe clean the plain of glistening oil their efforts are heroic venser sacrifices his life and Spark to reignite K and cure him of fyan contagion But ultimately they are defeated by hordes of fyans Miran is beyond Redemption the resistance is scattered most have fallen to completion and fesus rolls over the plane we see in fexus core that even the heart of the plane has succumbed once again K sees himself as a failure guilt and desire for vengeance drive him to seek ways to destroy new fxia he knows the danger they pose with Victory secured Elish noorn consolidates power and hears Whispers of other ples in the Multiverse she initiates a project to spread blessed Perfection across the blind eternities this will come to have major consequences in the near future meanwhile on the plane of innistrad the terrible Demon Lord Grizzle brand has disappeared within the hell Vault but not before he snags Avison and pulls the Archangel into the mystical prison with avison's absence the plane no longer has a guardian and humans lose their most valuable weapon against evil in EST strads nightmares grow ever powerful its vampires and Ghouls huntt and slay humans and the powers of avison's church Wayne Liliana a arrives on the plane seeking out Grizzle brand as one of the four demonic owners of her soul but she's pursued by Garrick wildspeaker the cursed Huntsman threatens vengeance upon the Necromancer if Liliana doesn't release him from the chain bal's curse the two fight across innistrad but VES ultimately evades Garrick she learns of Grizzle br's imprisonment within the hell Vault and forces the cathar and Knight of thraen Thalia to destroy the prison this action releases Untold Monsters the core PLS Walker nahiri but also liberates Archangel aison in the wake of the hell vault's destruction VES obliterates Grizzle brand using the powers of the chain Veil before walking away avison's power surges across the plane in a wave of cleansing energy called the curs mute her church is restored and her Flight of Angels slay Wicked Predators saving Humanity from Doom on the plane of Ravnica the guilds struggle to pick up the scattered pieces of the guild Packa the city is on a knife's edge as violence threatens to break between all 10 guilds and consume the city in blood the firem and is it Guild parent NIV Mizit alongside Jace bellerin and the plains Walker Ral zerich uncover Clues to the implicit maze a fail safe left behind that if completed with the cooperation of all 10 guilds will reestablish the binding powers of the guild paact if the guilds fail to unite then the Supreme verdict will be delivered and the city level the maze runs through ravnica's various districts and each Guild prepares their Champion runner at the end of the race while the guilds bicker and threatened failure bellerin uses his psychic powers to connect the minds of all present he completes the Maze and through his actions becomes the new living Guild paact Paragon and protector of the plane Jura arrives from zendar seeking desperate Aid he needs one with knowledge of L lines to restore the hedin network as it seems tied to the alrai Gideon beseeches Jace and with a guilt-ridden conscience for his part in unleashing zendikar's Doom the telepath agrees to return to the plane what they find is a realm desolate and drained of its Mana EML has disappeared but the Broods of ulamog and kelc consume entire ire continents Jura the plains walkers Kiora and Nissa ran leads Zari in a fight to reclaim the lost city of Seagate while bellerin studies the stone hedrin here he crosses paths with ugan the spirit dragon one of the three who initially bound the Titans ugan enlightens Jace but warns him against destroying the alrai outright they have a greater significance in the Multiverse than either of them can comprehend the Gathering of walkers alongside recently arrived Shandra Nar use their combined power and their Newfound knowledge to First bind ulamog and kelex physical presence to the plan then obliterate them in seething torrents of energy this we see Illustrated in the cards bonds of mortality and fall of the Titans zendar survives Extinction and stands resurgent under the charismatic leadership of Gideon Jura the gathered Plaines Walkers found the gate watch each swearing upon finding oath to keep watch for threats to life and freedom across the Multiverse the first challenge to the nent gate watch rears its head on innistrad an anger against saurin for imprisoning her within the hell Vault and nearly destroying her home niri warps inrad lay lines to beckon the alrai Titan emerle from across the blind eternities emer's influence corrupts Avison and her Angelic host it transforms many Denis into eldrich Horrors and the plane descends into madness marov realizes that his creation is Twisted Beyond Redemption and so has no choice but to destroy aison Illustrated in the card anguish un making whose flavor text reads saorin had created aisin so it was a cruelty Beyond imagining a pain Beyond description that it fell upon him to end her forever but with avison's death her protective barrier round inrad disappears and emerle manifests physically the gate watch jumps into action and defends the high city of thraen Against The Drowsy and Denis gripped by Insanity they're overwhelmed and spared only by the unexpected intervention of Liliana who uses her necromancy to March an army of Undead into the City and battle emerl drones she next AIDS the gate watch with her chain fail in Striking directly at the elrazi Titan the soratami moonfolk plains Walker from Kagawa tamamo who had been studying the mystical powers of inist strat's moon also lenss her Aid and with combined effort they subdue emerle and bind the Titan within the moon highlighted in the art of imprisoned in the moon with their first challenge met the gate watch recruits Liliana ofes to their cause the narratives of nickel Bolas and the gate watch now cross paths on the plane of cadesh home of invention and genius and birthplace of Shandra Nar Bolas takes interest in the work of Rashmi eternity's crafter who has developed technology that allows for the transportation of inorganic material across space and time her planner Bridge represents the first active planner portal since the great mending and a potential asset for The Elder Dragon to exploit he sends his minion taret to infiltrate the consulate government on kaladesh during the ventor fair and confiscate rash's planner Bridge technology tet's mission is contested by the gate watch who arrive not only for personal reasons of Shandra but to break the Yoke of a consulate now corrupted by bolas's Pawn the gate watch sides with the PLS Renegades and The Ether Revolt consumes the city the Plaines Walkers fight tarit artifacts at the Battle of the bridge and Nar successfully launches a thopter into the planer Bridge destroying it not before tesed incorporates its powerful engine within his own metallic body Liliana catches the artificer before he can flee and under cruel torture taret reveals that his master gathers power on the plane of [Music] amunet the gate watch is forced to deliberate on their next steps they realize all too well the threat Bolas poses to the entire Multiverse and though they don't understand his designs many argue that they can't can't sit idly and allow him to act unimpeded but Johnny Goldman who assisted the Renegades on Kadesh in a recent addition to the gate watch offers counsel and advises waiting he's the only one among them who has done battle with bulos and claimed Victory he knows the dragon's strengths and he warns against rushing headlong into his base of power where traps Beyond imagining lurk against his concern however the gate watch decide BOS won't expect their arrival and that his strength grows with each moment they next Plains walk to the Sands of amunet intent on bringing low a God the party arrives in the Oasis city of nakamun to find a culture that is on its surface pristine and honorable but subtleties of the Elder dragon's influence grow increasingly apparent Bas is firly cemented as the central God to whom all of amanet is devoted their lives revolve around his praise and they seek glory and death while undertaking the god trials those deemed worthy are taken in funerary barges to the gates of the afterlife where they are then touched by the god Pharaoh's gift dissension isn't countenanced the gate watch is astonished at bolas's manipulation and the citizen Zeal when the recounting of hours commences and hearkens the god Pharaoh's prophesized return reality is painfully made bare nickol Bolas had been Gathering an army of zombie eternals Lazer bladed Undead completely obedient to his will that retain the warrior skills they once displayed in life they are a force Unstoppable the Elder Dragon uses three forgotten Gods at the head of his army to bring about noon's Devastation the gate watch do what they can to rescue Innocents but know they must confront bulas directly to spare the city with a United strength they assault but in the hour of Devastation the depth of the Elder dragon's power is displayed one by one the gate watch is defeated the dragon uses their strengths against them they were ill-prepared and now suffer the consequences noct tooon lies in ruins the gate watch is shattered as its members Flee for their lives now no Force stands in bolas's way he's gathered an army of Ruthless mineralized Undead and a mean to transport them across the Multiverse the next phase in his designs requires an object hidden on the plane of Exelon long ago Azor created The Immortal sun to bind Bolas it's this artifact the dragon now seeks the sun prevents Plaines walkers from leaving but it has great power besides and is hidden in the lost city of arasa a place all of exelon's factions seek Jace bellerin after having his mind wiped in battle with Bolas finds himself marooned on Exelon he takes up with the plainswalker Vasa and her pirate crew in search of the immortal son Jace has no memory of his past with the Gorgon he is unaware that vas's benefactor is actually nickel poos but as the pair Venture further into Exelon bellerin's memory returns he begs Vasa for her assistance against the dragon but their plans require he wipes her thoughts to avoid detection they discover arasa find the immortal son and Vasa summons taret to retrieve it for The Elder Dragon the Final Phase in his decades long scheme is fast approaching meanwhile on dominaria the defeated gate watch disbands as Shandra and Nissa go separate ways a wounded Gideon assists Liliana in defeating her final contractor in the Elder demon Bellen moock leader of the cabal the pair inlist the aid of zra and the legendary sky ship Weatherlight to assault the Demon's Fortress in the cabal's vaults they find the ancient sword of dakan Black Blade a weapon that drinks The Souls of those it pierces and has already slain One Elder Dragon Gideon hopes to use it in his next confrontation with bolos the two plains walkers defeat Bellen loock seen in the illustration of settle the score and Liliana is freed from her contract or so it is believed instead nickel Bolas materializes and reveals that as the contract drafter should it default in any way bess's Soul would be forfeit to him in this manner he gathers the necromancer's unwilling obedience Elsewhere on dominaria tfairy K and aani discuss not only the threat of nickel Bolas but the rising darkness of new fxia Meridan K searches the plane for the Golan silx with it he intends to write his wrongs and cleanse Meridan all of the pieces are aligning all of the manipulations and schemes are coming to fruition on the plane of Ravnica Bolas recruits plains walkers to infiltrate the guilds to assume roles of Guild leaders or else assassinate them to seow Discord and weaken any potential defense through his agents buas twists s Mizit project lightning bug a device that alerts the parent of Plaines walking activity into an interplaner Beacon that irresistibly lures hundreds of plains walkers from across the blind eternities to Ravnica once gathered The Immortal Sun activates its symbol seen in ravnica's sky and Illustrated in No Escape which reads Jace surmised that they were walking into bolas's trap he felt no joy in being right with this nickol Bolas the god Pharaoh makes his final move a planer portal renss the Hall of the guildpact sunders ravnica's L lines from it pours forth countless Legions of Undead led by the domineering God eternals and Liliana who commands The Dread horde army with her necromancy so Begins the war of the spark the truth of bolas's schemes are laid bare when he enacts his Elder spell this is a powerful ritual ancient and depraved that consumes Sparks Once released by a plaines Walker's death and utilizes their Essence to deliver Transcendence upon its Caster the Elder Dragon wishes to reclaim his prend in godhood and he paves the way with blood The Dread horde eternals fight and slay countless plains walkers the gate watch organize resistance alongside the 10 guilds and Plaines Walkers break off into different groups to neutralize the immortal sun to close the planer portal and to thwart the Elder spell the war of the spark rages all of Ravnica and indeed the Multiverse places its hope with Gideon Black Blade who flies through the air with sword in hand to slay bolos but as his blade strikes it shatters the Elder Dragon foresaw this potential and long ago Enchanted it against him the outcome is Bleak Sparks are harvested by the dozens but as the light Fades on ravnik one is illuminated inside Liliana ofes she sees the destruction she's been upon in pursuit of power most of her life no longer she decides she will live and die on her terms and with the power of the chain Veil rests control of the dread horde from Bolas and even liberates the minds of the God eternals we see the cost of her actions in price of betrayal as Bolas enacts her contract but as her body frays Gideon Jura transfers her binding magic onto himself and suffers the consequences a founding member of the gate watch is no more Gideon's sacrifice allows the god eternals to disrupt the Elder spell and neutralize boss's power seen in despark ugan then transports his brother to the meditation realm and strips him of all power all titles before merging his Spirit Essence with the realm as Eternal Guardian nickol Bolas after Decades of scheming now has centuries to ponder defeat Ravnica celebrates its victory over evil and Mourns the loss of Fallen comrades NIV Mizit who was slained by Bolas in the first moments of the invasion is reborn as the new living Guild pack and commands great power we see other plains walkers join the gate watch and Hunt bolas's ponds across the Multiverse for many however this is time for Preparation rather than celebration just as one grave thread is neutralized another storm bruise on the horizon the rise on meridin of new fxia and the closing of this Epoch a poultry band of mirin remain uncorrupted and resist fian efforts but the plane is beyond Redemption Elish noorn gathers power neutralizes her rivals or else convinces them to join her cause Meridan is slowly transformed into the form of old fxia layers are built on top of one another each its own hell armed with the glistening oil and the knowledge that other worlds exist across the blind eternities norn burns with purpose to spread fian contagion to corrupt and complete every plane until all are one to achieve this she enlists the aid of taset who still possesses the planer bridge on call time a plane divided into 10 realms all connected and supported by the branches of the world tree the green allian preder vorn klex appears as a ghastly beast in the snowy Tundra kayak casir the ghost Assassin tracks forign kleck across Calhan But ultimately fails to slay him the fian escapes after breaking into the tyrite sanctum and stealing a sample of the material the essence of the world tree back to norn the pl of kamigawa which has surged to a technological Golden Age since the days of Takashi a millennia ago is visited by the blue align Prader Jin Gus Gus establishes experimental Laboratories in kagawa's elicit under City to test theories on the nature of Kami Spirits he seeks to understand their Essence and learn more of the veil that separates the spirit and Mortal realm as on cim vexian interests are Ste geed toward metaphysical discoveries to perfect interplaner travel jinus and tasit are opposed by kagawa's native plains walkers in Kato shizuki tamamo the moon sage and the wandering Emperor who attacked the prer labs here significant progress is made on the reality chip an artifact that augments whatever it attaches to and even Alters the nature of plainswalker Sparks taret and the fyans kidnapped and Retreat back to New fxia torturous experiments are performed on the moon Sage with a reality chip and Tam becomes the first completed PLS Walker her spark no longer defense against the glistening oil contagion next the fian predor irras is seen on the plane of new capena irras and his furnace represent a rogue faction within new fxia that aren't entirely under noren's control the Prader seeks a weapon that threatens the glistening oil and fia's rise in the form of Halo capena shares a long and brutal history with fxia in the time of vagmo and Beyond the plane was invaded and threatened by ancient fian war machines the denisons under the protection of both Angels and Demons fled and established the city of new capena Halo is the last gift of the Angels it's derived from their Divine Essence and inoculates against fesus it represents a check to new fia's dangerous corruption and is sought by both ir brasque and elth Terell a capena native who returns to her home plane for the first time since her tortured youth it's discovered that the teenage girl giata is actually the last of capa's active angels and the font of Halo for the plane various factions pursue her for control of Halo and in the climax of events of new capena she sacrifices her self unleashing a wave of Halo infused magic that spares El's life and awakens the plain's Angels long held in stasis back on dominaria K has uncovered the gothian silx that his master urza used Untold centuries ago to end the brothers war and defeat fxia first Advance the silver Golem intends to use it once more this time to destroy new fxia and excoriate the Multiverse of n's presence but his actions don't go unnoticed taret has transported the black aligned preder shrid to dominaria and she establishes a network of fian sleeper agents who move in secret across the plane they infiltrate all levels of society they are impossible to discern and shrid also works to resurrect weapons of war used during the invasion of dominaria after months she activates all of her embedded sleepers the plane is thrown into chaos and faces a second fian invasion thousands are completed countless more are slain most tragically a Johnny Goldman is discovered to be a Sleeper Agent K is ripped apart alongside the CX and brought as captive to Elish noorn even the weather light the legendary symbol of the Coalition and victory over fxia is completed but not before members of the gate watch take the Power Stone core from its engine though dominaria and its Heroes surviv the first wave of fian aggression they realized the fight must be taken to the enemy sahil Ray genius inventor and metallurgist from cadesh weaves with her magic a filigree replica of the destroyed gothian CX unfortunately the secret to unlocking its Destruction has been lost to myth using the weather light's Power Stone and the moon silver key an artifact acquired by agents of the gate watch on inrad after successfully thwarting vampiric plans to bring Eternal Night upon the plane sahil next crafts the temporal anchor fueled by the magic of temporal Arch Mage tfairy and ghost Assassin Kaaya with this device they send tfairy spiritual Essence back in time thousands of years to the events surrounding the brothers War he hopes to learn directly from the source how to activate the CX the mission is successful but issues with the temporal anchor strand to fery between space and time he is marooned on his own home nation of zaler place thought phased out of existence for eternity elth heads a Strike Team of plains walkers including Jace Vasa Nissa nahiri Kato and others intent on penetrating fia's defenses and detonating the CAC in the pl's core they're separated instantly into smaller bands which are often overrun by monstrous creatures as the Walkers descend further into fxia heart more are lost to fyis and the corruption of glistening oil Kaa elth Jace and tyar Kel reach fia's Hollow core but nothing can prepare them for what awaits Elish noorn using the tyde obtained on call time has created a fian version of the world tree named round breaker its tendrils rip through the Blind eternities and connect countless other planes to new fxia this is n's Vision realized an invasion Force tens of thousands strong prepares to bring blessed Perfection to the Multiverse the plains walkers realize detonating the CX won't just destroy new fxia but also bring ruin to every plane with which round breaker is entangled eleth believes it to be murdered but Jay sees no other solution with fesus already corrupting his mind bellerin activates the CX which we see in the card bring the ending the flavor text reads kle watched in horror as the illusion vanished from her hands Jay held the real cyx and had activated it before fesus claimed his mind there is no explosion no Doom for fxia elth to the last a hero for the innocent grabs the artifact mid detonation and Plaines walks into the blind eternities with none now to oppose her Elish noorn uses the Elemental Magic of completed Plains Walker Nissa to guide round Breer in 4562 AR pexia launches a grand offensive of unequaled scale and Begins the invasion of the Multiverse this we see in the cards all will be one and breach the Multiverse the former re reads the invasion tree broke through the Blind eternities and sent fian Perfection coursing across the Multiverse biting breaks across dozens of Realms from arara to lorwin to ioria and tarir many notable characters and legendary heroes are slain or else completed as the fian war machine looms Unstoppable just when all hope seems lost and the light Fades a brilliant flash opens in the skies above n's Basilica elith has died and been reborn no longer a moral but a Divine and resplendant Archangel with her Newfound powers and her Halo infused blade she severely wounds norn the attack on the mother of machines affords distraction enough for Shandra alar and the plains walking drad Ren to lead an assault on round breaker as a dryad ren is able to bond with the invasion tree and direct its functions using its tendrils to open an omen path that connects fxia to the pocket plane of zaler tfairy and a battle ready ziran Nation pour forth from the Ren and clash with noren's forces most significantly the plain Walkers use their abilities to exchange zir and new fxia banishing fxia to a prison beyond the time stream and reincorporating the Lost Nation of zir as the war hosts storms the seed core kena's Angels fly through the omen paths and spread Halo to severely weaken the fyans Illustrated in the card's surge of Salvation with her seed of power destroyed Elish noor's final defeat comes at the hands of K who in his guilt-ridden conscience blames himself for her creation the mother of machines lies dead in a pool of Vicor without her the glistening oil is rendered inert and most fian beasts or Machines of War lose all drive and control many of the Plaines Walkers previously completed if not slain are cured of fyis and reborn across the Multiverse planes hack and burn the phyrexian remains while celebrating their Victory but for a second time reality has been nearly torn asunder and the Multiverse pushed to the limits of space and time The Omen Paths of real Breer the detonation of the CX within the blind eternities the reconstitution of zir into the time stream all have played their part and the Multiverse lashes out in kind in an act parallel to the great mending the blind eternity seeks to rectify and heal the wounds left by such powerful events a great Des sparking takes place where Plaines walkers from all walks lose their Sparks their ability to tread the realms we see it in the card's spark rupture though this desp sparking isn't lethal the spark is intrinsically connected to a being soul and plains walkers who lose their spark feel hollow cold yearning despite so many losing their ability to ples walk the Multiverse has never been more accessible in the wake of invasion several of the omen path portals remain active and connect various planes to one another allowing smooth movement through the eternities this also begins The Omen path Arc and the active storyline in Magic the Gathering at the time of this recording there aren't definitive answers as to how this tale ends but several plots lie beneath the surface first is discovered remains of what the newly ascended plainswalker quorus KH refers to as the coin Empire deep within the hollow core of Exelon the coin Empire was an ancient force in the Multiverse that predates much of remembered past led by the race of giants known as the FI whose home plane was the manor Rich ER the FI utilized ships and technology that could travel the blind eternities to colonize or subjugate establishing an interplaner empire for unknown reasons the foror were interested in exelon's core and so came to dominate its people this we hear in the flavor text of cartographer's companion ever since the foror's attempt long ago to extinguish chim's light the ultech have taken extensive measures to never get lost in the core this realization coincides with rediscovery of the core by Exelon surface Nations and a Mad Dash to seize riches and Power in the aftermath of fian invasion the bat God aots awoke and escaped from his centuries long imprisonment and though he and his Legion of dusk followers were un able to extinguish the core's light akat retreated to the nation of toriton traces of the FI are found again on the plane of Thunder Junction a once uninhabited and blank world only recently populated due to its significant position as a Crossroads of several Omen paths a fi Vault called magar now by locals is purported to house immeasurable wealth and rare Treasures from Realms unknown but remain locked from Outsiders several factions race against one another to gather the keys required to open the vault Jace bellerin and Vasa are drawn to thunder Junction by rumors heard years ago of what lies inside a being of great power a creature even the Elder Dragon nickel bulas feared rests dormant within the Vault but after the pair overcome the other factions and unlock the FI Vault they're shocked to find a small infant possibly a foror child tucked inside mag Taral its appearance is deceptive the creature named loot has etched within its mind a map of the entire Multiverse and The Omen paths that connect it none know what other powers seee within the small body but loot could prove indispensable for whomever wishes to capitalize on its knowledge two other narratives begun in the years before fian invasion continued to develop the first involves a trio of plains walkers from the plain of elrain twins Willen row and kenrith sought in their youth their lost father King alanus kenrith of the realm he had been transformed into a stag by the glamour magic of f trickster oo to spark unrest between the realm and eldin's Wilds with the assistance of Garrick wildspeaker whose chain Vil curse is finally shattered after a near-death experience involving The Cauldron of Eternity the siblings locate their father and return him to his position before igniting a shared plainswalker spark the pair travel the blind eternities learning of magic in battle on the plane of kyum before accepting enrollment at the mystical College of stricks Haven on aravo here they continue to refine their skills under the tutelage of Liliana AES disguised as Professor Onyx Liliana seeks respit from The Haunting memories of Gideon's death and also a means to resurrect her Fallen comrade VES offers Sage wisdom both will and Rowan take to heart but as the days progress the siblings realize that there are moral and logical differences between them which builds tension the third individual is the younger half Fay plainswalker Kellen who in the wake of fian invasion embarks on an adventure of self-discovery that takes him across Myriad Realms in search of the truth of his Heritage he looks for his father who happens to be none other than the Fay OKO the second narrative involves the secrecy of Plaines Walker and Nightmare wielder Ashok whose intentions remain unknown they haunt the dreams of elth Terrell during her death and brief stay in the therin Underworld from her ashiok learns of fyans their grotesque appearance and innate Terror Intrigue the nightmare Caster they infiltrate new fxia as The Invasion fast approaches and enter Elish noor's mind here ashiok embeds doubt and sews the seed of fear within the mother of machines to what end none can say Ash's tale and that of the kenrith Converge on eldrin in the months following fian Invasion the plane is enthralled by a Sinister curse the wicked Slumber that afflicts many across the Rome will and Rowan both seek to undo the magic and learn that ashiok and the witch ariette are propagating the Slumber to increase their control over eldin's inhabitants while will fights against them Rowan shares in some of ariat's motives she wishes to help her plane but can no longer see eye to eye with her brother the siblings fall out and though will achieves Victory Rowan escapes his grasps and flees into the Wilds ashok's next actions remain obscured and though they were seen on the plane of Thunder Junction it's discovered to be Jace Belin in Disguise beneath all of this the Vain and ambitious NIV Mizit schemes to gather more influence both for himself and for ravnik as the living Guild packed Mizit draws strength from the plane itself he's also its Paragon its greatest protector he is the self-styled leader of all 10 guilds following his death rebirth in the f an invasion the Draco genius fears another defeat so wishes to strengthen himself beyond all measures it seems he plots to transform ravnik into the new Nexus of the Multiverse through understanding of the omen paths perhaps with the portals connecting Myriad other ples to Ravnica and as the living Guild packed Mizit will be able to command their Mana lines suffusing himself with the power he desires and fortifying him against any future threat but this is of course speculation and it remains to be seen how the pieces of the Multiverse will fall after new fxia defeat but if the magic story has taught us anything it's that there is always a greater foe who stirs after one has been vanquished so ends the story of Magic the Gathering a sweeping epic that spans tens of thousands of years in which countless heroes and villains have both risen and been cast into Oblivion it's a story of power Despair and hope as forces Beyond imagining work against one another to bring balance to the Multiverse thanks so much for watching and listening let me know your thoughts on the 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