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When I really started to play the game with friends around 2010, that trend was still somewhat alive - there were fewer books per set, but the Planeswalker novels helped tie things together and were some of the best MTG fiction I’ve ever read.
The books and online stories vary in quality, but some are superb. The Agents of Artifice book is great, Children of the Nameless is a great digital novella, for the online chapters I'd check out Amonkhet followed by Ixalan as a start.
Yes, definitely. If anything, the survey shows that people aren't finding the books favorable enough to comment on them anymore. Look at The Brothers' War: 79 (I think) reviews, and only two of them are negative. In fact, 76 of them were 4-stars or 5-stars. So people do like to comment on books that they found enjoyable.
Bloodlines isn't the best, but helps explain Rath. Rath and Storm is a great collection of stories that outlines storylines of Weatherlight, Tempest, Stronghold and Exodus. Mercadian Masques isn't bad, Nemesis is very well done (and it is essentially a book without heroes) while Prophecy is terrible.
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The first MTG book to ever release, William R. Forstchen’s mage-duelling adventure Arenais still loved by many. Its story is a pulpy plot of gladiatorial wizard battles, but its descriptions of magical combat remain some of the most vivid and exciting across fantasy literature. Many MTG cards – at least, those that existed in the metagame nearly 30...
Comprised of five books – The Brothers’ War, Planeswalker, Time Streams, Bloodlines, and The Thran – the Artifacts cycle is arguably the most popular series of MTG books ever published. Focused on the plane of Dominaria, Artifacts brilliantly captures the vastness of Magic: The Gathering – its long histories, its interwoven worlds, and the conseque...
The Ravnica cycle of novels – Ravnica: City of Guilds, Guildpact, and Dissension – is the best example of an MTG book series that fully embraces, and develops, the game’s existing lore. The districts, guilds, and characters of the titular city are fleshed out, and the entire setting stands up as a developed entity ripe for storytelling. Constructio...
The Japanese-inspired Kamaigawa has long been a fan-favourite plane of the Magic Multiverse, and the Kamigawa cycle – Outlaw: Champions of Kamigawa, Heretic: Betrayers of Kamigawa, and Guardian: Saviours of Kamigawa – a favourite book series. In it, a pair of antagonistic heroes must band together to save their homeland, while getting mixed up in a...
The best contemporary MTG book isn’t a novel at all, but the Magic comic book series from BOOM! Studios. First released in early 2021, the series does a remarkable job of capturing the game’s wild, imaginative setting by following a group of Planeswalkers already known to players of the trading card game. There’s mystery, there’s sorcery, and there...
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As a general rule, the order to read Magic The Gathering books is chronological. Reading the books chronologically presents a clear timeline of events within the Magic The Gathering’s multiverse. However, reading the books in release order offers a more character-focused narrative.
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Mar 24, 2020 · We’ll take a look at most recent books about Magic the Gathering and review them. We’ll provide a short spoiler-free synopsis and our opinion about the book. The opinions are our own and may not necessarily reflect how you’ll feel about it.
