The sky above Urborg turned black. Not the black of night, nor that of storm clouds. An absolute, living blackness that devoured light itself. A death cloud descended slowly toward Dominaria, and everything it touched — trees, stones, creatures — simply ceased to exist. After millennia ruling over his artificial hell, Yawgmoth,.

The sky over Benalia suddenly darkened. Not clouds, but something far more sinister: entire sections of another world were materializing in the atmosphere. Black fortresses, grotesque war machines, armies of creatures half flesh, half metal. After millennia of preparation in the nine spheres of their artificial hell, the Phyrexians had come to.

Introduction: A Ship in the Clouds Three centuries have passed since the Brothers' War. On Dominaria, the scars of that titanic conflict have slowly healed, but in the shadows, a far more ancient threat is preparing its return. Urza, now a near-divine planeswalker, has not been idle: for millennia, he has patiently.

The Sylex explosion had destroyed everything. Argoth was nothing but a smoking crater, his brother Mishra lay in pieces of flesh and metal, and Dominaria's climate was tilting toward an ice age that would last millennia. But at the heart of this cataclysm, something extraordinary had happened: Urza's planeswalker spark had awakened..

More than 25,000 years ago, before humans, before civilizations, stone-eggs fell from the sky onto a world called Dominaria. From these eggs were born the Elder Dragons — the first conscious beings of the Multiverse. Among them, two twins: Nicol Bolas and Ugin, whose rivalry would shape the history of the universe..