Planar portal
A planar portal is a way to travel through the aether between planes, without needing a planeswalker's spark. Planar portals can be created by planeswalkers, but the Thran and the Phyrexians also had the technology.
Known portals
Known planar portals include:
- The portals from Dominaria:
- The Skyship Weatherlight was able to travel between planes before the Great Mending.
- The Dwarven Gate on Ulgrotha in the abandoned dwarven city under Castle Sengir. Where it leads is unknown.
- The portals of Rath
- The portals in the skies that captured its citizens from other planes.
- The portal within the throne room of the Stronghold which allowed Yawgmoth to enter Dominaria personally during the Phyrexian Invasion.
- The flying portals, or portal ships, used during that invasion.[2]
- The Erratic Portal between Rath (originally on Phyrexia itself when used by Ramos) and Mercadia, guarded by the Soltari.
- The Soul traps created by Memnarch on Mirrodin.
- The Drownyard temple on Innistrad, used by Nahiri to bring Emrakul to the plane.
- The Riddle Gate on Esper, used by Tezzeret to visit the Metal Island.
- The Planar Bridge created by the inventor Rashmi on Kaladesh, now under the command of Tezzeret.
- The portal from the Meditation Plane to Ravnica, used in the resurrection of Niv-Mizzet.
History
When the Mending occurred, all artificial planar portals stopped working.[3][4] New tech was possible, but so far the only example seen is the Planar Bridge, which has major limitations transporting organic matter.[5]
Vorinclex used an unexplained portal between New Phyrexia and Kaldheim.[6] Tezzeret was revealed as being in league with New Phyrexia in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, and Vorinclex was stripped of organic tissue on his initial arrival on Kaldheim, which revealed the Planar Bridge was the method. Other Praetors visited other planes by the same method.
Realmbreaker used the dynamics of the World Tree's omenpaths as a way to forcibly link planes from New Phyrexia across the multiverse. Despite New Phyrexia later being pocketed away into the Zhalfirin planar knot and Realmbreaker's demise, the omenpaths still exist across the multiverse, additionally influenced by the detonation of the Filigree Sylex in the Blind Eternities.
After New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse and the Great Pruning, the omenpaths are now the main way to travel between planes.[7]
In-game references
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- Referred to:
References
- ↑ Magic Arcana (May 08, 2007). "Sursi Lore". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mike Mikaelian (April 04, 2011). "Better Living Through Spinal Replacement". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Kelly Digges on Twitter
- ↑ Magic Story Podcast: The Mending (May 3, 2018)
- ↑ James Wyatt (January 25, 2017). "Puppets". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Roy Graham (February 03, 2021). "Episode 5: The Battle for Kaldheim". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Grace P. Fong (May 1, 2023). "March of the Machine: The Aftermath - She Who Breaks the World". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.