Wrenn

Wrenn
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Race	Dryad Planeswalker
Birthplace	Unknown
Lifetime	Mending Era
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Wrenn is a dryad planeswalker introduced in Modern Horizons. Her homeplane is currently unknown.

Appearance and characteristics

Wrenn is a dryad who can symbiotically bind with a Treefolk. Like all Dryads, she will die without a host after a prolonged period. Unlike other dryads, who are born with their respective trees, grow in tandem with them and never leave them, Wrenn can move from tree to tree. She speaks with a low and gently pitched voice, with rounded vowels that match no known accent. Her skin is pale and her hair is long, loose, and even whiter, bone-bleached and stark.

Wrenn gained access to red mana by trapping within herself the fire that destroyed her home glade, causing her chest to glow red hot and inadvertently expanding her bonding beyond the norm of her race. Wrenn cannot planeswalk without a host, but it is her spark that allows it. She cannot bond with any normal tree, but only to one whose song she hears, which is strong enough to contain the fire within her. She treats her hosts as allies, refusing to see them as tools or as mere means to an end. When a host grows weak, she takes it to the spot to which it wishes to return as a tree before seeking another. Without Wrenn, her treefolk symbiotes can't planeswalk. Although living organic material ordinarily can't be brought along on a planeswalk, Wrenn's power to carry treefolk with her breaks this rule (comparable to Yanggu's ability to planeswalk with Mowu).

Wrenn is primarily green-aligned but secondarily red.

Abilities

Wrenn retains dryad nature magic, being able to fuse with trees and understand them. She gained access to pyromancy after containing a forest fire within herself and can use it offensively. Finally, she is capable of some sort of metamagic, allowing her to feel and perceive spells.

History

Origin

Wrenn's spark ignited when a forest fire threatened the lives of her sisters. She contained the fire within herself, but at a heavy cost: she'd have to share it (and presumably her planeswalker spark) with a tree or she'd be consumed from the inside. As a dryad, Wrenn needs to be "hosted" to a tree. However, a common tree does not support Wrenn's "flames", requiring a treefolk as a host. After the ignition of her spark, Wrenn found her first (named by her One) host on her homeworld. This made it possible for her to planeswalk through the multiverse.

Innistrad

With Teferi's help, Wrenn finds Seven in Kessig (Innistrad).

Respecting her trees' wishes, she cycles through them. Four, Six, and Seven have come from Kessig, which planeswalkers claim to have the finest trees in the multiverse. Wrenn agrees, even if she doesn't particularly like Innistrad itself. After she left Six to live out his remaining days as a mighty yet ordinary oak, she began searching for her new host. Following the whispering song of a young sapling, she was intercepted by Teferi. Teferi sought to learn what the "white witch" was that some residents had seen, and immediately recognized her as another planeswalker.

Due to an encounter with a malevolent entity, Teferi was forced to create a time spell, which was corrupted and led them to walk around in circles. Nearly dying, Wrenn offered to grant insight into metamagic, allowing Teferi to see the spell and undo it. Unknown to him, there was one beneficial effect remaining. Wrenn's sapling had gathered all the time it could contain.

Afterward, Wrenn met a now fully grown Seven. In gratitude for Teferi's help, she promised him to help undo Zhalfir's phasing, but not before showing Seven around the multiverse as the tree had requested.

Fighting the Phyrexians

Meeting again on Cridhe, Wrenn was recruited by Teferi to join the fight against the Phyrexians. They gathered on Dominaria, visiting Jamuraa before settling in Urza's Tower. Wrenn and Seven helped Nissa Revane fend off the second line of Phyrexians attacking the tower and the Temporal Anchor held within. After the battle, she stayed behind with Jodah and Saheeli Rai to help recover Teferi from the damaged stasis coffin of the Temporal Anchor.

March of the Machine

Wrenn wasn't part of the planeswalker strike force that set out to destroy Realmbreaker on New Phyrexia. Together with Vivien, Chandra, and Liliana, she took refuge in one of the latter's cabins on Dominaria and anxiously awaited the return of the team. When the survivors returned, they were devastated to learn what had happened. Defiant, Chandra was the only one of the group willing to return to New Phyrexia to help their remaining allies. The group tried to dissuade her, but she decided to go anyway. Wrenn, who had stayed silent, joined her and told her she had the plan to merge with the Invasion Tree, hoping to use it to retrieve Teferi to help them.

Trivia

• In the video game Magic: The Gathering Arena, Wrenn is voiced by Tara Langella.

Planes visited

• Cridhe
• Dominaria
• Innistrad
• New Phyrexia

Planeswalkers met

• Chandra Nalaar
• Elspeth Tirel
• Jace Beleren
• Kaito Shizuki
• Kaya
• Koth of the Hammer
• Liliana Vess
• Lukka
• Nahiri
• Nissa Revane
• Saheeli Rai
• Teferi
• Tyvar Kell
• Vivien Reid
• Vraska
• The Wanderer

Gallery

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  Wrenn.

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  Wrenn and Six

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  Planebound Accomplice

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  Wrenn and Seven, art by Heonhwa Choe.

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  Wrenn ignited her spark after containing a fire within herself that destroyed her home forest.

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  “These seeds waited faithfully for the sun to rise again. Now, their patience is rewarded.”

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  Magic: The Gathering Arena avatar.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Tangles	Seanan McGuire	2021-09-03	Innistrad: Midnight Hunt	Innistrad	Wrenn, Teferi, Six, Seven
The Brothers' War - Chapter 1: Stronghold	Reinhardt Suarez	2022-10-21	The Brothers' War	Dominaria	Teferi, Jodah, Elspeth Tirel, Kaya, Vivien Reid, Saheeli Rai, Wrenn, Seven
The Brothers' War - Chapter 4: The Dark	Reinhardt Suarez	2022-10-25	The Brothers' War	Dominaria	Elspeth Tirel, Wrenn, Seven, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Jodah, Kaya, Saheeli Rai, Rona, Tezzeret, Ashiok
The Brothers' War - Chapter 5: Exodus	Reinhardt Suarez	2022-10-26	The Brothers' War	Dominaria	Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Kaya, Saheeli Rai, Teferi Akosa, Wrenn, Seven, Nahiri, Jace Beleren, Jodah, Elspeth Tirel, The Wanderer, Kaito Shizuki, Tyvar Kell, Lukka, Vraska
March of the Machine - Episode 2: Holding Your Breath	K. Arsenault Rivera	2023-03-15	March of the Machine	Dominaria	Chandra Nalaar, Wrenn, Seven, Tyvar Kell, Kaya Cassir, Kaito Shizuki, Liliana Vess, Vivien Reid
March of the Machine - Episode 5: Cathartic Reunion	K. Arsenault Rivera	2023-03-21	March of the Machine	New Phyrexia	Chandra Nalaar, Wrenn, Seven, Koth of the Hammer, Melira, Urabrask, Nissa Revane
March of the Machine - Episode 6: The Last to Leave	K. Arsenault Rivera	2023-03-24	March of the Machine	Capenna, Theros, New Phyrexia	Elspeth Tirel, Atraxa, Daxos, Elesh Norn, Urabrask, Koth of the Hammer, Wrenn, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Karn, Jin-Gitaxias, Serra
March of the Machine - Episode 7: Divine Intervention	K. Arsenault Rivera	2023-03-24	March of the Machine	New Phyrexia	Karn, Elesh Norn, Koth of the Hammer, Jin-Gitaxias, Chandra Nalaar, Melira, Elspeth Tirel, Vorinclex, Wrenn

In-game references

Represented in:

• Wrenn and Seven
• Wrenn and Six

Depicted in:

• Dryad's Revival
• Planebound Accomplice
• Splendid Reclamation (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)

Quoted or referred to:

• Costume Shop (Unfinity, #206c)
• Crushing Canopy