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The '''Izzet League''' is a [[blue]]/[[red]] [[Ravnican guild|guild]] from the plane and city of [[Ravnica]].<ref name="styleguide">{{ | The '''Izzet League''' is a [[blue]]/[[red]] [[Ravnican guild|guild]] from the plane and city of [[Ravnica]].<ref name="styleguide">{{DailyRef|arcana/guildpact-style-guide-izzet-2006-03-01|''Guildpact'' Style Guide: Izzet|[[Magic Arcana]]|March 01, 2006}}</ref> Introduced in ''[[Guildpact]]'', the guild is also featured in ''[[Return to Ravnica]]'', the ''[[Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari|Izzet vs. Golgari]]'' set<ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/duel-decks-izzet-vs-golgari-2012-08-08|''Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari''|[[Magic Arcana]]|August 08, 2012}}</ref> and ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]''. | ||
[[File:GRN Izzet basic lands.png|right|thumb|300px|Izzet basic lands from ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]]] | [[File:GRN Izzet basic lands.png|right|thumb|300px|Izzet basic lands from ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]]] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
The Izzet League are charged with attending to Ravnican civic works,<ref name="Life in the Big City">{{ | The Izzet League are charged with attending to Ravnican civic works,<ref name="Life in the Big City">{{DailyRef|feature/life-big-city-2005-09-05|Life in the Big City|Rei Nakazawa|September 5, 2005}}</ref> including water supply systems, sewers, heating systems, boilers, and roadways.<ref>{{DailyRef|pipes-and-boilers-2006-03-02|Pipes and Boilers|[[Magic Arcana]]|March 02, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/working-lab-2012-11-13|Working in the Lab|[[Monty Ashley]]|November 13, 2012}}</ref> In addition to carrying out these functions, the Izzet members {{Em}} obsessive, keen, and creative intellectuals, who often have short attention spans <ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/smart-and-little-crazy-2006-01-16|Smart and a little crazy|[[Magic Arcana]]|January 16, 2006}}</ref> {{Em}} are known to perform magical experiments, ever with reckless abandon and sometimes with spectacular but severe results.<ref name="Life in the Big City"/><ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/goblin-forkomancer-2006-02-28|Goblin Forkomancer|[[Magic Arcana]]|February 28, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|feature/building-guilds-izzet-league-2018-10-30|Building the gUilds – Izzet League|Chris Gleeson|October 30, 2018}}</ref> Unlike the other guilds, the Izzet do not openly strive for hegemony of the city and the plane. Instead, integral to the Izzet League, a guild of masters of both theoretical and applied science and spellcraft, is the passionate seeking of, and thirst for, knowledge.<ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/creative-differences-2006-02-27-0|Creative Differences|Mark Rosewater|February 27, 2006}}</ref> Combined with their drive for discovery and child-like curiosity, the brilliant but capricious and whimsical Izzet magewrights jump to and from ideas as they see fit, discarding old ideas for new ones that attract their attention.<ref name="Life in the Big City"/> In this regard, they can likened to ambivalent or benevolent mad and absent-minded scientists/professors.<ref>[http://www.wizards.com/magic/displaythemedeck.asp?set=guildpact&decknum=3&lang=en ''Guildpact'' Theme Deck: Izzet Gizmometry] {{Em}} Wizards of the Coast</ref> | ||
Similarly to the [[Cult of Rakdos]], the Izzet League, with its worship of its parun and guildmaster of the Izzet League, Niv-Mizzet, has been described as a cult of personality.<ref>{{WebRef|url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showpost.php?p=8696333&postcount=24|title=Which current planeswalkers would make the best couple?|author=Barinellos|date=July 15, 2012|publisher=[[MTG Salvation]]}}</ref> | Similarly to the [[Cult of Rakdos]], the Izzet League, with its worship of its parun and guildmaster of the Izzet League, Niv-Mizzet, has been described as a cult of personality.<ref>{{WebRef|url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showpost.php?p=8696333&postcount=24|title=Which current planeswalkers would make the best couple?|author=Barinellos|date=July 15, 2012|publisher=[[MTG Salvation]]}}</ref> | ||
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[[Image:Izzet_Mage.jpg|right|125 px|thumb|An Izzet mage from the Wizards of the Coast ''Guildpact'' Style Guide.]] | [[Image:Izzet_Mage.jpg|right|125 px|thumb|An Izzet mage from the Wizards of the Coast ''Guildpact'' Style Guide.]] | ||
{{Main|Niv-Mizzet}} | {{Main|Niv-Mizzet}} | ||
The brilliant of Ravnica flock to Niv-Mizzet, the most intelligent being on Ravnica.<ref name="Fountainhead">{{ | The brilliant of Ravnica flock to Niv-Mizzet, the most intelligent being on Ravnica.<ref name="Fountainhead">{{DailyRef|savor-flavor/niv-mizzet-fountainhead-2006-01-11|Niv-Mizzet, the Fountainhead|Matt Cavotta|January 11, 2006}}</ref> Powerful enough to live to tell the tale of his fight against the [[nephilim]]<ref>{{DailyRef|feature/ravnica-then-and-now-2012-08-29|Ravnica, Then and Now|Adam Lee|August 29, 2012}}</ref> and capable of seizing control of the city and plane of Ravnica,<ref name="Dissension">[[Cory J. Herndon]]. (2006.) ''Ravnica Cycle, Book III: Dissension'', [[Wizards of the Coast]]. ISBN-13 978-0786940011.</ref> Niv-Mizzet is content with not taking over Ravnica, in large part due to his fickleness and odium for monotony, as ruling and running Ravnica would become tedious.<ref name="Fountainhead" /> | ||
Although varieties of dragon-kin, such as [[drake]]s, [[wyvern]]s, and [[wurm]]s, are present in Ravnica, Niv-Mizzet is said to be the last true dragon.<ref name="Dissension"/> As would be reasonably expected of him due to his vanity, Niv-Mizzet has numerous lesser clones of himself; other than as his underlings, the full purpose of these dragon clones, however, remains unknown.<ref name="Dissension"/> Testimonies to the significance as well as vanity of Niv-Mizzet are reflected in the uniforms of Izzet League members and the names of inventions or structures, such as [[Mizzium]], a metal invented by Niv-Mizzet; [[Nivix]], the guild hall of the Izzet League;<ref>{{ | Although varieties of dragon-kin, such as [[drake]]s, [[wyvern]]s, and [[wurm]]s, are present in Ravnica, Niv-Mizzet is said to be the last true dragon.<ref name="Dissension"/> As would be reasonably expected of him due to his vanity, Niv-Mizzet has numerous lesser clones of himself; other than as his underlings, the full purpose of these dragon clones, however, remains unknown.<ref name="Dissension"/> Testimonies to the significance as well as vanity of Niv-Mizzet are reflected in the uniforms of Izzet League members and the names of inventions or structures, such as [[Mizzium]], a metal invented by Niv-Mizzet; [[Nivix]], the guild hall of the Izzet League;<ref>{{DailyRef|arcana/lurker-nivix-2006-01-17|Lurker of Nivix|[[Magic Arcana]]|January 17, 2006}}</ref> and Izzet, the name of the guild itself.<ref name="Fountainhead" /><ref name="Hey, Look at That">{{DailyRef|depth-look-izze-hey-look-2006-03-01|An In-Depth Look at the Izze- Hey, Look at That!|Matt Cavotta|March 1, 2006}}</ref> The alchemically-boosted clothing of the Izzet are flamboyant, with bright fabrics dyed in the colors of their draconic leader's scales and shiny metals.<ref name="styleguide"/> | ||
Niv-Mizzet is conducting a scattered, grand meta-project he calls the '''Interlocus'''.<ref name="Guide 2"/> The purpose of the Interlocus—and indeed, its existence at all—is difficult to detect, as the sheer range and number of experiments that feed into it would fail to suggest any kind of pattern to most observers. | Niv-Mizzet is conducting a scattered, grand meta-project he calls the '''Interlocus'''.<ref name="Guide 2"/> The purpose of the Interlocus—and indeed, its existence at all—is difficult to detect, as the sheer range and number of experiments that feed into it would fail to suggest any kind of pattern to most observers. | ||
===Izmundi=== | ===Izmundi=== | ||
The servants of Niv-Mizzet who make up his personal court are referred to as the '''Izmundi'''.<ref name="Guide 2">{{ | The servants of Niv-Mizzet who make up his personal court are referred to as the '''Izmundi'''.<ref name="Guide 2">{{DailyRef|feature/planeswalkers-guide-part-2-2012-09-05|Planeswalker's Guide to ''Return to Ravnica'': Part 2|[[The Magic Creative Team]]|September 05, 2012}}</ref> Niv-Mizzet uses them to guide his machinations and to keep him abreast of the happenings in the wider world. The '''Izmagnus''' are the most powerful members of the Izmundi court, and form a smaller board with five to seven members (some members' identities remain secret) who serve as Niv-Mizzet's closest advisors. Even members of the Izmagnus are not privy to Niv-Mizzet's highest-level plans and goals. | ||
===Ral Zarek=== | ===Ral Zarek=== | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
Founded by [[parun]] [[Niv-Mizzet]], an ancient, brilliant, capricious, and narcissistic dragon, the Izzet League continuously create and destroy and are obsessively driven by a desire for new discoveries.<ref name="Planes of Existence"/> Being the analogue of scientists and engineers on Ravnica and the masters of innovation and spellcraft, the Izzet are also responsible for the design and implementation of most of Ravnica's infrastructure and inventions.<ref>{{ | Founded by [[parun]] [[Niv-Mizzet]], an ancient, brilliant, capricious, and narcissistic dragon, the Izzet League continuously create and destroy and are obsessively driven by a desire for new discoveries.<ref name="Planes of Existence"/> Being the analogue of scientists and engineers on Ravnica and the masters of innovation and spellcraft, the Izzet are also responsible for the design and implementation of most of Ravnica's infrastructure and inventions.<ref>{{DailyRef|savor-flavor/planes-planechase-2009-12-30|The Planes of ''Planechase''|[[Doug Beyer]]|September 02, 2009}}</ref> | ||
===Ravnica block=== | ===Ravnica block=== | ||
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===Guilds of Ravnica block=== | ===Guilds of Ravnica block=== | ||
Lately, the Izmundi have been demanding more significant discoveries and faster results, so much so that chemisters have resorted to running experiments day and night for fear of losing their labs.<ref name="Testing">{{ | Lately, the Izmundi have been demanding more significant discoveries and faster results, so much so that chemisters have resorted to running experiments day and night for fear of losing their labs.<ref name="Testing">{{DailyRef|magic-story/testing-dark-waters-2018-10-17|Testing the Dark Waters|[[Nicky Drayden]]|October 17, 2018}}</ref> All their efforts are leading to one outcome: the development of superweapons.<ref name="Ravnica art book">[[James Wyatt]] (January 2019). "''[[The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Ravnica]]''". [[Wizards of the Coast]]</ref> | ||
Niv-Mizzet knows about other planes and planeswalkers and has figured out that [[Nicol Bolas|a threat]] to Ravnica is coming. He has started an experiment that should remove the [[Guildpact (spell)|Guildpact]] and let him empower himself, but he needs the help of the other guilds to pull it off.<ref name="Ravnica art book"/> To work on <c title="his research">Firemind's Research</c> he has headed away from the main part of the city and has left [[Ral Zarek]] behind as acting guildleader.<ref>Flavor text for <c>Command the Storm</c></ref> Zarek is secretly in league with [[Nicol Bolas]].<ref name="Guide">{{ | Niv-Mizzet knows about other planes and planeswalkers and has figured out that [[Nicol Bolas|a threat]] to Ravnica is coming. He has started an experiment that should remove the [[Guildpact (spell)|Guildpact]] and let him empower himself, but he needs the help of the other guilds to pull it off.<ref name="Ravnica art book"/> To work on <c title="his research">Firemind's Research</c> he has headed away from the main part of the city and has left [[Ral Zarek]] behind as acting guildleader.<ref>Flavor text for <c>Command the Storm</c></ref> Zarek is secretly in league with [[Nicol Bolas]].<ref name="Guide">{{DailyRef|feature/flavorful-guide-guilds-ravnica-2018-10-03|A Flavorful Guide to the Guilds of Ravnica|[[Chas Andres]]|October 3, 2018}}</ref> | ||
==In the game== | ==In the game== | ||
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====''Guildpact'': Replicate==== | ====''Guildpact'': Replicate==== | ||
{{Main|Replicate}} | {{Main|Replicate}} | ||
Designed as "polycast" and with the Izzet League's in-game identity being one heavily oriented around [[instant]] and [[sorcery]] spells, replicate is a static and triggered ability that allows a card's controller to copy a spell with replicate as many times as the card's replicate cost was paid.<ref>{{ | Designed as "polycast" and with the Izzet League's in-game identity being one heavily oriented around [[instant]] and [[sorcery]] spells, replicate is a static and triggered ability that allows a card's controller to copy a spell with replicate as many times as the card's replicate cost was paid.<ref>{{DailyRef|latest-developments/yes-it-iz-2006-03-03|Yes It Iz|Aaron Forsythe|March 3, 2006}}</ref> | ||
====''Return to Ravnica'': Overload==== | ====''Return to Ravnica'': Overload==== | ||
{{Main|Overload}} | {{Main|Overload}} | ||
Inspired by [[Kenneth Nagle|Ken Nagle]]'s ''The Great Designer Search'' <c>Radiate</c>-inspired Dispersion mechanic,<ref name="RoI2">{{ | Inspired by [[Kenneth Nagle|Ken Nagle]]'s ''The Great Designer Search'' <c>Radiate</c>-inspired Dispersion mechanic,<ref name="RoI2">{{DailyRef|making-magic/return-investment-part-2-2012-09-10|Return on Investment, Part 2|[[Mark Rosewater]]|September 10, 2012}}</ref> like Replicate, Overload is a static ability solely featured on instant and sorcery spells. Unlike Replicate, however, it enables its controller to play a spell with Overload for its Overload cost to change the range of a spell from a single target to each possible target. Issues in designing and developing cards with Overload included the rarity of the cards, the playability of both sides of the cards, and the guaranteeing of a one-sided effect, without inadvertent side-effects.<ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/designing-izzet-2012-11-08|Designing for Izzet|[[Mark Rosewater]]|November 12, 2012}}</ref> | ||
====''Guilds of Ravnica'': Jump-start==== | ====''Guilds of Ravnica'': Jump-start==== | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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The Izzet League is a blue/red guild from the plane and city of Ravnica.[2] Introduced in Guildpact, the guild is also featured in Return to Ravnica, the Izzet vs. Golgari set[3] and Guilds of Ravnica.
Background
The Izzet League are charged with attending to Ravnican civic works,[4] including water supply systems, sewers, heating systems, boilers, and roadways.[5][6] In addition to carrying out these functions, the Izzet members — obsessive, keen, and creative intellectuals, who often have short attention spans [7] — are known to perform magical experiments, ever with reckless abandon and sometimes with spectacular but severe results.[4][8][9] Unlike the other guilds, the Izzet do not openly strive for hegemony of the city and the plane. Instead, integral to the Izzet League, a guild of masters of both theoretical and applied science and spellcraft, is the passionate seeking of, and thirst for, knowledge.[10] Combined with their drive for discovery and child-like curiosity, the brilliant but capricious and whimsical Izzet magewrights jump to and from ideas as they see fit, discarding old ideas for new ones that attract their attention.[4] In this regard, they can likened to ambivalent or benevolent mad and absent-minded scientists/professors.[11]
Similarly to the Cult of Rakdos, the Izzet League, with its worship of its parun and guildmaster of the Izzet League, Niv-Mizzet, has been described as a cult of personality.[12]
Niv-Mizzet
The brilliant of Ravnica flock to Niv-Mizzet, the most intelligent being on Ravnica.[13] Powerful enough to live to tell the tale of his fight against the nephilim[14] and capable of seizing control of the city and plane of Ravnica,[15] Niv-Mizzet is content with not taking over Ravnica, in large part due to his fickleness and odium for monotony, as ruling and running Ravnica would become tedious.[13]
Although varieties of dragon-kin, such as drakes, wyverns, and wurms, are present in Ravnica, Niv-Mizzet is said to be the last true dragon.[15] As would be reasonably expected of him due to his vanity, Niv-Mizzet has numerous lesser clones of himself; other than as his underlings, the full purpose of these dragon clones, however, remains unknown.[15] Testimonies to the significance as well as vanity of Niv-Mizzet are reflected in the uniforms of Izzet League members and the names of inventions or structures, such as Mizzium, a metal invented by Niv-Mizzet; Nivix, the guild hall of the Izzet League;[16] and Izzet, the name of the guild itself.[13][17] The alchemically-boosted clothing of the Izzet are flamboyant, with bright fabrics dyed in the colors of their draconic leader's scales and shiny metals.[2]
Niv-Mizzet is conducting a scattered, grand meta-project he calls the Interlocus.[18] The purpose of the Interlocus—and indeed, its existence at all—is difficult to detect, as the sheer range and number of experiments that feed into it would fail to suggest any kind of pattern to most observers.
Izmundi
The servants of Niv-Mizzet who make up his personal court are referred to as the Izmundi.[18] Niv-Mizzet uses them to guide his machinations and to keep him abreast of the happenings in the wider world. The Izmagnus are the most powerful members of the Izmundi court, and form a smaller board with five to seven members (some members' identities remain secret) who serve as Niv-Mizzet's closest advisors. Even members of the Izmagnus are not privy to Niv-Mizzet's highest-level plans and goals.
Ral Zarek
Ral Zarek is a blue and red-aligned planeswalker, born to the city plane of Ravnica and a high ranking guildmage to the Izzet League. While he has ascended, he's managed to hide this fact from Niv-Mizzet, a very impressive task. Ral is the chief researcher investigating the ancient codes laid out in the Tenth District, the leylines and secrets that make up the Implicit Maze that so fascinates Niv-Mizzet. Ral then takes the role as the Izzet's maze runner after killing the rightful Izzet maze runner.
Chemisters and blastseekers
The Izzet chemisters are alchemists who forge mizzium and other elements into arcane tools.[18] They experiment with new alloys, energies, and runic markings. The chemisters are highly competitive, which often leads to spirited rivalries and petty in-fighting. Blastseekers are Izzet mages who wield and control the arcane tools devised by the chemisters. Sometimes the blastseekers manipulate orbs of elemental energy that float in mutual orbits, crackling concentric disks of power, or streams of lava-bubbling water. Izzet blastseekers and chemisters might have up to forty attendants, most of whom are vedalken, due to their natural focus and organizational skills.
Laboratories
The Izzet League is organized into units designated as laboratories that specialize in certain fields of research.[19] Though they all operate under the general guidance of the lzmundi, each laboratory is typically left alone to conduct its research.
- The Laboratory of Pyrology has a prominent facility in the guildhall, Nivix. Its emphasis is on heat, fire, and explosion.
- The Laboratory of Storms and Electricity focuses on controlling the weather as well as containing and conducting electrical energy. Its headquarters is in a spire atop Nivix, known as the Lightning Rod.
- Research into smelting and forging, most often using the magical metal known as mizzium, is conducted at the Laboratory of Metallurgy, which has a small outpost in the Tenth District's Smelting Quarter.
- The magical science of transmuting one substance to another is the study of the Laboratory of Alchemy.
- The Laboratory of Orientation, concerned with teleportation and spatial recombination, has multiple Works hops that seem to appear and disappear at random.
- The Laboratory of Mimeography studies means of duplication.
- The Laboratory of Continuism emphasizes the study of temporal manipulation.
- Research into counter-magic and redirection takes place in the Laboratory of Arcane Geometry, which has a small presence in Prism University in the Tenth District.
- The Laboratory of Gravitational Inversion conducts research on means of flight and maintains a workshopnear Augustin Station in the Tenth District.
- The Laboratory of Plasma-Dermatology places emphasis on the combining of opposing elements, with the purpose of creating creatures called weirds.
Weirds
Supposedly created during the Katazar-Razblat Elemental Symposium, weirds are the semi-sentient, walking-paradox result of a fusion of elementals of opposing elements, of fire and water and of earth and electricity.[17] Weirds are a creature type unique to the Izzet League, and function as ubiquitous lab assistants and "pets" of Izzet League members.[17]
The Firemind
The Firemind is an extrasensory link with Niv-Mizzet's consciousness and omniscience, between selected, worthy Izzet League subordinates, Crixizix being one, and Niv-Mizzet himself.[15] Members of the Izzet League who are deemed worthy must first pass a test before they may communicate with Niv-Mizzet.[15]
History
Founded by parun Niv-Mizzet, an ancient, brilliant, capricious, and narcissistic dragon, the Izzet League continuously create and destroy and are obsessively driven by a desire for new discoveries.[1] Being the analogue of scientists and engineers on Ravnica and the masters of innovation and spellcraft, the Izzet are also responsible for the design and implementation of most of Ravnica's infrastructure and inventions.[20]
Ravnica block
Introduced in the Magic storyline in the novel Guildpact, the Izzet League are depicted as passionate thinkers, largely via the viewpoint of Crix (later Crixizix),[21] a goblin courier who initially serves under a magelord Zomaj Hauc but is later chosen, and promoted, by Niv-Mizzet.[15]
Return to Ravnica block
After fighting with the nephilim, Niv-Mizzet was not seen for a while. Former guildmages wondered what use this new-found freedom could mean for the Izzet, but without word from their guildmaster, the Izzet League became scattered and chaotic.[citation needed]
Most Ravnicans saw the disappearance of Niv-Mizzet as the end of the Izzet guild. It wasn't until the emergence of large Izzet works being built and strange warehouses humming with manacoils throughout the night that the Ravnicans began to change their presumptions. The ancient dragon parun didn't have to be visible to control his guild. During his absence, he used the power of the Firemind to reach out to his guildmages with a complex array of new and mysterious projects for the Izzet League to work on.[citation needed]
Guilds of Ravnica block
Lately, the Izmundi have been demanding more significant discoveries and faster results, so much so that chemisters have resorted to running experiments day and night for fear of losing their labs.[22] All their efforts are leading to one outcome: the development of superweapons.[23]
Niv-Mizzet knows about other planes and planeswalkers and has figured out that a threat to Ravnica is coming. He has started an experiment that should remove the Guildpact and let him empower himself, but he needs the help of the other guilds to pull it off.[23] To work on his research he has headed away from the main part of the city and has left Ral Zarek behind as acting guildleader.[24] Zarek is secretly in league with Nicol Bolas.[25]
In the game
Guild mechanics
Guildpact: Replicate
Designed as "polycast" and with the Izzet League's in-game identity being one heavily oriented around instant and sorcery spells, replicate is a static and triggered ability that allows a card's controller to copy a spell with replicate as many times as the card's replicate cost was paid.[26]
Return to Ravnica: Overload
Inspired by Ken Nagle's The Great Designer Search Radiate-inspired Dispersion mechanic,[27] like Replicate, Overload is a static ability solely featured on instant and sorcery spells. Unlike Replicate, however, it enables its controller to play a spell with Overload for its Overload cost to change the range of a spell from a single target to each possible target. Issues in designing and developing cards with Overload included the rarity of the cards, the playability of both sides of the cards, and the guaranteeing of a one-sided effect, without inadvertent side-effects.[28]
Guilds of Ravnica: Jump-start
A keyword ability on instants and sorceries that allows the player to play the spell directly from their graveyard for the additional cost of discarding a card.
Creature types
Species and races
Species and races associated with the Izzet League include:
Classes
Classes associated with the Izzet League include:
Notable members
See also
- Izzet Gizmometry, the Guildpact preconstructed theme deck
- Izzet Ingenuity, the Return to Ravnica intro pack
Gallery
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Ravnica block crest.
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Return to Ravnica block crest.
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Izzet guildgate
References
- ↑ a b Wizards of the Coast (July 25, 2008). "Planes of Existence: Ravnica". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Magic Arcana (March 01, 2006). "Guildpact Style Guide: Izzet". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Magic Arcana (August 08, 2012). "Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c Rei Nakazawa (September 5, 2005). "Life in the Big City". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Magic Arcana (March 02, 2006). "Pipes and Boilers". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Monty Ashley (November 13, 2012). "Working in the Lab". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Magic Arcana (January 16, 2006). "Smart and a little crazy". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Magic Arcana (February 28, 2006). "Goblin Forkomancer". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Chris Gleeson (October 30, 2018). "Building the gUilds – Izzet League". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (February 27, 2006). "Creative Differences". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Guildpact Theme Deck: Izzet Gizmometry — Wizards of the Coast
- ↑ Barinellos (July 15, 2012). "Which current planeswalkers would make the best couple?". MTG Salvation.
- ↑ a b c Matt Cavotta (January 11, 2006). "Niv-Mizzet, the Fountainhead". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Adam Lee (August 29, 2012). "Ravnica, Then and Now". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c d e f Cory J. Herndon. (2006.) Ravnica Cycle, Book III: Dissension, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 978-0786940011.
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- ↑ a b c Matt Cavotta (March 1, 2006). "An In-Depth Look at the Izze- Hey, Look at That!". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c The Magic Creative Team (September 05, 2012). "Planeswalker's Guide to Return to Ravnica: Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ James Wyatt and Jeremy Crawford (November 2018). "D&D Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica", Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Doug Beyer (September 02, 2009). "The Planes of Planechase". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Cory J. Herndon. (2006.) Ravnica Cycle, Book II: Guildpact, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 978-0786939893.
- ↑ Nicky Drayden (October 17, 2018). "Testing the Dark Waters". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b James Wyatt (January 2019). "The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Ravnica". Wizards of the Coast
- ↑ Flavor text for Command the Storm
- ↑ Chas Andres (October 3, 2018). "A Flavorful Guide to the Guilds of Ravnica". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Aaron Forsythe (March 3, 2006). "Yes It Iz". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (September 10, 2012). "Return on Investment, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (November 12, 2012). "Designing for Izzet". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
External links
- Wizards of the Coast (August 20, 2012). "Izzet League". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- Gatherer watermark search for Izzet, Gatherer — Wizards of the Coast
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