Wizards of the Coast has announced the next Magic: The Gathering expansion set, Magic Origins. Releasing in July, the set will explore the origins of five of the seminal collectible card game’s most iconic Planeswalkers.
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In Magic: The Gathering, a Planeswalker is a mage born with a gift referred to as “the spark.” When “the spark” is unleashed, a Planeswalker unlocks their abilities to travel between the worlds of Magic‘s multiverse. Magic Origins will reveal the first time that Planeswalkers Gideon Jura, Jace Beleren, Liliana Vess, Chandra Nalaar, and Nissa Revane discovered the power of “the spark.”
“Magic Origins is a different kind of core set than we’ve ever done before, one with ambitious story goals and deep creative impact,” says Doug Beyer, Magic‘s senior creative designer, in a press release. “All core sets in recent years have had Planeswalker cards, but Magic Origins doesn’t just contain five Planeswalkers-it’s also about those Planeswalker characters. It’s about certain points in time in those Planeswalkers’ lives-the events that led them to become Planeswalkers-and is meant to set up a lot of our plans for Magic‘s future story. We’ll see these characters’ home worlds, learn about the joys and crises of their early lives, and discover how they became the Multiverse-traveling Planeswalkers we know today.”
Magic Origins will release worldwide on July 17, 2015.
