Magic: The Gathering

Thirty years of tie-in novels in two distinct eras, and almost none of it is in print.

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Where to start with Magic: The Gathering

There is no reading order for thirty years of tie-in fiction. Pick a well regarded block.

  1. 1
    The Brothers' War The Weatherlight and Urza books

    Jeff Grubb's 1998 novel. Two brothers, an arms race and the war that broke the world. It is the one novel from this line that people recommend without qualification, and it works with no knowledge of the card game.

  2. 2
    The rest of the Artifacts Cycle and the Weatherlight Saga The Weatherlight and Urza books

    Planeswalker, Time Streams and Bloodlines follow The Brothers' War. The Weatherlight books run alongside. This is the best regarded stretch of the line.

  3. 3
    The web fiction, for anything recent The web fiction era

    Since 2012 most of the story has been published free on the official site as short stories tied to card sets. It is not a series and there is no spine to follow.

Then what? Novels resumed in 2018 and several have been published since. A Netflix animated series was announced in 2019 and has not been made.

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The Novel Line

  • The early novels 1994
  • The Weatherlight and Urza books 1997
  • The later novel line 2002

After the Novels

  • The web fiction era 2012
  • The return to print and the announced series 2018

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