Writer Jenna HellandStory Jenna Helland, Doug Beyer amp; Brady DommermuthIllustrators Nils Hamm, Tomas Giorello amp; Steven BelledinLetterer Jino ChoiArt Director Jeremy JarvisBased on characters by Brady Dommermuth and Volkan BragaReleased October SUMMARYIt can be found here...

   ALARA REBORN MINI SITE amp; FEATURE ARTICLELast time I said that the Alara Reborn minisite see Alara in Chaos, The Shards at War amp; The Threat to New Alara had little more to say than there’s gonna be war and chaos . I guess that wasn’t entirely true, as it also...

   Writer Doug BeyerCover Artist Chris RahnFirst Printing ...is not given in the colofon But it’s May according to the wiki.I guess this book was never printed, and just miraculously appeared in stores one day SUMMARYThe book is split up in three parts, corresponding to the sets of Alara...

   nbsp;Writer Jenna HellandStory Jenna Helland, Brady Dommermuth and Doug BeyerIllustrators Trevor Hairsine, Dan Scott and Aleksi BriclotLetterer Jino ChoiArt Director Jeremy JarvisBased on characters by Brady Dommermuth and Aleksi BriclotReleased January...

   Something happening at different times on different timelines Oh no For a long time now I’ve thought about making my timeline a bit more legible. Maybe something with a few different columns, to make it so the Weatherlight Saga can sit in one without being interrupted by, say, the backstory of...

   INTRODUCING THE CONFLUXAs is usual at this point our first introduction to the new set comes through a mini site split up in The Shards Collide, Sowing Fear, Reaping War amp; Claws of an Ancient Evil and a feature article Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker . These tell us that the...

   Writer Brady DommermuthStory Brady Dommermuth, Doug Beyer and Jenna HellandIllustrators Greg Staples, Rafa Garres amp; Dave KendallLetterer Brian DumasArt Director Jeremy JarvisBased on characters by Brady Dommermuth and Aleksi BriclotReleased October SUMMARYIt can be found here...

   Right. How am I going to do this with the current state of the Magic website Well, I’ve gone to the Wiki, checked out the articles linked on the bottom of the Alara page and everything from the Savor the Flavor page. That should give me the initial introduction to the setting, and...

   A Planeswalker’s Guide to AlaraAuthors Doug Beyer, Jenna HellandCover Art Raymond SwanlandFirst Printing September ...and a whole bunch of other people.ReviewFor the past few years Wotc had been putting up bits and pieces of their style guides, which storyline fans obviously loved,...

   Writer Ari MarmellCover Artist Aleksi BriclotFirst Printing February SUMMARYWe open with Kallist Rhoka amp; Liliana Vess living together she’s just turned down his offer of marriage when a bunch of thugs attack them looking for a mister Jace Beleren. Kallist and Liliana used...

   Writer Doug BeyerStory Doug Beyer and Jeremy JarvisIllustrators Christopher Mueller, Andrew Robinson amp; Lucio ParrilloLetterers Brian DumasArt Director Jeremy JarvisBased on characters by Brady Dommermuth and Aleksi BriclotReleased November SUMMARYYou can find...

   nbsp;Writers Doug Beyer amp; Jenna HellandStory Doug Beyer, Jenna Helland amp; Brady DommermuthIllustrators Jason Shawn Alexander, Paul Lee amp; Alex Horley OrlandelliLetterers Jen Page amp; Kevin SmithArt Director Jeremy JarvisBased on characters by Brady Dommermuth and Aleksi...

   Back in the Dissension Online review I said I was saving the planeshopping era overview until after Eventide. Well, now we’re finally there, let’s see what typifies this era, and how well it preformed. And let’s also look ahead a little to see what’s coming up.Looking BackThe first thing to notice...

   Now I’m blogging again I might as well get some thoughts about the most recent arc of Magic Story off my chest. The gist of which is that if the finance people at WotC won’t make more money available for longer stories, and the cardmakers don’t want to stick around on a plane for more than one set,...

   A quick note to start with: almost all of this was written before the lasts move of WotC’s website, which I’ve already complained about last week. This week there is some complaining in my post about the WotC websites archives. It’s no longer really relevant to writing the blog since I’m now using...

   You know the deal about these online articles by now. We get some feature articles and a whole bunch of Taste the Magic entries describing the world of the current set, with maybe a few excursions talking about older story stuff or behind the scenes looks at the work of the creative team. I’ll list...

   Hey everyone Been a while While writing the reviews of the Lorwyn to Eventide online coverage I reached the point where WotC revamped their website, when their weekly articles stopped using easy serial numbers in their url’s, putting in the name of the individual articles instead. Which meant I...

   The story of accompanying the new Brothers’ War set had some surprisingly deep continuity references, so I thought it would be fun to do another round of annotations. Hopefully you’ll also find it interesting. And hopefully I can get through the article without too many confusing sentences despite...

   nbsp;ShadowmoorEditor Philips Athans amp; Susan J. MorrisCover Art Adam RexFirst Printing April The Lorwyn Shadowmoor story didn’t have enough plot to fill its three novels, so we’re lucky they didn’t try to stretch it to four. Instead the remaining set in the double block gets an...

   nbsp;Writers Cory J. Herndon amp; Scott McGoughCover Artists Mark Zug, Steve Prescott amp; Christopher MoellerFirst Printing August , January amp; June SUMMARYLorwyn: There are a bunch of mysterious occurrences happening on Lorwyn. Magical creeping vines...

   A long, long time ago I made a list of storyline sources for this blog, which I’ve since been updating... veeeeeeery sporadically. Before I launch into the post Mending storylines it seems like a good idea to do some housekeeping and finally give it a thorough update. With Magic’s storyline being...

   WHY THIS ARTICLE IS A WEEK LATE...This article was always going to end with a call for criticism. Figuring out a framework for the post Mending timeline is a bit of a challenge as we don’t have an official timeline to use as a base like we did before. Instead you have to piece it all together from...

   This was going to be the Lorwyn review, but I ended up saying very little about that book and a whole lot about the aftermath of the Mending for both the storyline community in general and for me personally, so it works better as a separate article.Too dramatic When it comes to people’s least...

   So. The Mending. Probably the most important event in all of Magic’s storyline history, and certainly a contender for the most hated one. But we’re now years onward and the flames of anger seem to have dimmed in that time. Many people have left the fandom in those years, while others have joined...

   After a bunch of less than interesting player’s guides, this one actually has some important information. Not much of it, so we’ll go through it quickly, but this is defintely one for the why did they bury that information in such an obscure source pile.As always with these guides, there are a...