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Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. [1] Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast , Magic was the first trading card game and had approximately fifty million players as of February 2023 [update] .
The following is a list of novels based in the setting of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.When Wizards of the Coast was asked how the novels and cards influence each other, Brady Dommermuth, Magic's Creative Director, responded by saying "generally the cards provide the world in which the novels are set, and the novels sometimes provide characters represented on cards.
Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica is a 256-page campaign and adventure guide for using the Ravnica setting, from the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, in the 5th edition. The book includes a ninety page overview of "the ten guilds of Ravnica along with the Tenth District where most of the guilds operate.
The trading card game Magic: The Gathering has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast.After the 1993 release of Limited Edition, also known as Alpha and Beta, roughly 3-4 major sets have been released per year, in addition to various spin-off products.
In the lore of Magic the gathering the Multiverse is a collection of planes (described somewhat like pocket universes) which are usually named after the primary planet contained within them. Travel between these planes is possible, and a few powerful beings known as "Planeswalkers" are capable of traversing between them at will.
Ravnica is a Magic: The Gathering block that consists of three expert-level expansion sets: Ravnica: City of Guilds (October 7, 2005), Guildpact (February 3, 2006), and Dissension (May 5, 2006). Following in the tradition of other Magic blocks, Ravnica takes place in a plane of the multiverse that was previously unexplored in the game's backstory.
Cameron Kunzelman, for Paste, highlighted that the guilds in Ravnica are defined by a color pair with matching lore. Kunzelman wrote, "any card set that takes place in Ravnica is fundamentally going to be built around these assumptions about mana and card creation at the core of Magic , and in my experience that means that Guilds of Ravnica is ...
The Pocket Players' Guide is book containing an expanded explanation for the rules of Magic, presenting examples as well as commentary, and a glossary for game terms, with sections on how to develop Magic decks, how to handle multiplayer games, rules for tournaments, and a full guide to every card in the latest edition at the time with notes on any cards already in publication whose function ...