Battle cards will be the next big thing in Magic: The Gathering.
That changed last year with The Brothers' War and a series of short stories by Miguel Lopez about a time-traveling planeswalker named Teferi who went back to a time ofto learn about a weapon powerful enough to defeat a threat he knew he'd face in the future. Those war stories full of death and desperation got me interested in Magic's lore, and the conflict they were foreshadowing.
As head designer of Magic: The Gathering, you might expect Mark Rosewater to be a rules-over-story guy. His blog,, where he explains behind-the-scenes decisions based on card-type percentages and managing mana curves, certainly tends to focus on mechanics. But he's just as passionate about plot, as hisdemonstrate, and says the biggest challenge in March of the Machine was conveying the scope of its story.
There are plenty of cards in the set depicting places Magic's visited recently—the backdrop of Nezumi Informant is the glowing neon streets of Kamigawa, while City on Fire shows the art deco edifices of New Capenna—but a few go for what Rosewater calls"deep cut" planes.
These worlds from all across the multiverse are accompanied by a selection of characters just as diverse, some of them paired in Odd Couple match-ups like monster-slayer Thalia riding giant amphibious beast The Gitrog Monster, to illustrate the unlikely alliances the Phyrexian threat makes possible."When we first pitched them in vision design, we combined creatures from different worlds," Rosewater says,"but creative explained that wasn't how the story was working.
His personal favorite match-up of oddballs is either frog spirit Yargle and tree wizard Multani, or the gigantic cyclops Borborygmos with the perpetually lost homunculus Fblthp, who are united by the fact they're both one-eyed."One of the cool things about making a set that occurs on all planes of the multiverse is you're free to do whatever characters you want," he says.
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