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

The skies over Benalia suddenly darkened. These were not clouds, but something far more sinister: entire chunks 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 older threat is preparing its return. Urza, now a near-divine planeswalker, has not been idle: for millennia, he has patiently assembled.

The Sylex blast 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 tipping into an ice age that would last millennia. But at the heart of this cataclysm, something extraordinary had happened: Urza's planeswalker spark had ignited..

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..