Portal:Story
Story
The Multiverse of Magic: The Gathering is a shifting space of unique worlds called planes. The Blind Eternities between those worlds are unknown and impenetrable to the artifice of most cultures, but can be freely traveled by rare individuals known as planeswalkers, who possess an intrinsic spark that frees them from ordinary limits. The stories of the Multiverse span millennia and numerous planes.
The earliest stories centered on the plane of Dominaria. They told of the evolution of the Phyrexians from the ancient Thran, and their repeated invasions of Dominaria. These were the stories of the planeswalker Urza, his war with his brother Mishra, his generations-long efforts to prepare Dominaria for the next assault of the Phyrexians, and the many cataclysms that Dominaria weathered as a consequence of a war in which the ends justified any means.
There are stories from many other planes, and the ongoing narrative weaves among them. Among the most common destinations is the city-planet of Ravnica, the site of the War of the Spark, in which many planeswalkers died and the dragon Nicol Bolas was defeated by his twin brother, Ugin. The interdimensional monstrosities known as the Eldrazi have been fought and trapped on both the ancient plane of Zendikar and the haunted world of Innistrad. In spite of Urza's long war, the Phyrexians escaped total extinction and re-emerged on New Phyrexia, from which they launched a Multiversal invasion that ended in their defeat and separation from the wider Multiverse. Among the often-independent planeswalkers, a group known as The Gatewatch committed themselves to protecting the Multiverse against threats that were bigger than any one world, although many lost their spark after the Phyrexian Invasion. Since the Invasion, a new era known as the Omenpath Era has begun, in which planes are no longer sequestered from those without an innate spark but are instead accessible to all, so long as they can find the right Omenpath.
Most new stories are freely available as chapters of the Magic Story column on the Wizards of the Coast website. An outline of each set's story can be pieced together from the physical cards marked as Story Spotlights. Some stories have been published in novels and comics, although some of these, especially the oldest examples, may contradict the current lore.
The Multiverse
- Amonkhet
- Avishkar (formerly Kaladesh)
- Bloomburrow
- Dominaria
- Duskmourn
- Eldraine
- Ixalan
- Muraganda
- New Phyrexia (formerly Mirrodin)
- Ravnica
- Thunder Junction
Concepts & Artifacts
Categories
Alara | Dominaria | Fiora | Events | Innistrad | Avishkar | Kamigawa | Lorwyn–Shadowmoor | Magic publications | Mercadia | Mirrodin | Rath | Ravnica | Phyrexians | Planeswalkers | Spells and Magics | Tarkir | Theros | Zendikar