Hello Chris,
It is your /r/MagicTCG Secret Santa here!
Let me just say that I had A LOT of fun with this gift. As a relatively newer player (I have been playing for
around two years at this point), learning about some the older cards and stories was quite fun. Having
noticed your favorite character was Jeska/Phage, I HAD to know the story behind them. And after reading
it, I knew exactly what your gift would be. So, without further ado, let me introduce you to your new
Commander deck, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did in creating it!
Your gift is a partner Commander deck featuring [Jeska, Thrice Reborn] and [Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper] (I
had to get BG in there ok). Every card besides a few ramp cards will have a story aspect to it, and I will list
them all out below with a story summary. Additionally, the cards will be in order so you can read the story
and see the cards alongside each other.
Story Part 0: Origins
Jeska [Jeska, Warrior Adept] and her brother, Kamahl [Kamahl, Pit Fighter], were born on the continent
of Otaria [Mossfire Valley] [Shadowblood Ridge], located on the plane of Dominaria. The two lived in a
barbarian tribe under the tutelage of Balthor the Dwarf [Balthor the Stout]. Jeska lived a relatively calm
life, as much as one can when one lives in a barbarian tribe, until Kamahl left the tribe to claim fame and
glory in the fighting pits of Cabal City [Cabal Pit] [Swamp x 5].
Story Part 1: Kamahl and Cabal City
In Cabal City, Kamahl showed his warrior prowess and won multiple matches [Decimate] before
befriending two other pit fighters: the centaur Seton [Seton, Krosan Protector] and the Cabal dementia
caster Chainer [Chainer, Dementia Master]. It was also here, when Kamahl first laid eyes on the powerful
artifact Mirari [Mirari]. The Mirari was being held as a prize by the Cabal, a ruling class of clerics who
worshipped commerce, and would be awarded to the most powerful fighter in Cabal City [Acolyte of
Affliction] [Blood Celebrant] [Brutalizer Exarch] [Doomed Necromancer] [Entomber Exarch] [Priest of
Gix] [Priest of the Blood Rite] [Priest of Urabrask] [Withered Wretch]. The Mirari spoke to Kamahl,
promising him untold power, and Kamahl became obsessed with obtaining it [Kamahl’s Desire]. The Cabal
pitted the fighters of the pits against many foes, sometimes the fighters themselves, and sometimes local
beasts. One of these beasts was a Krosan dragonette, a smaller version of a full grown Krosan dragon
[Rock Basilisk]. After one of the dragonettes was killed in the pits, a Krosan dragon found and attacked
Cabal City. Kamahl saw this as an opportunity to prove that he was the most powerful warrior in the City
and slew the dragon. Unfortunately for Kamahl, another warrior claimed the kill and his prize. This drove
Kamahl mad with rage and desire to obtain the Mirari. Through a series on unfortunate events, the Mirari
ended up back in the hands of the Cabal by Braids (I really wanted to include Braids, Cabal Minion but she
is banned in Commander) and was put back on display as a reward for the fighters. Kamahl, driven by
obsession, returned to Cabal City and found his old friend Chainer. Chainer, to gain more power over his
nightmare creatures, asked Kamahl to help him with a ritual to be performed in the nearby forest. Kamahl
agreed, but when the duo returned to the City, they found it under siege by a rival faction, the Order.
Kamahl was gravely injured during this battle, but Chainer was able to heal him using the Mirari’s powers.
Kamahl hated this, partly because Chainer has the Mirari and partly because it was not the barbarian way
to be healed like this and ran to isolate in a local hostel. There, he healed naturally, but when he
resurfaced, he found that Chainer had grown mad with power. He attempted to talk Chainer out of
ravaging the City with dementia creatures but was unsuccessful. The power of the Mirari overcame
Chainer, killing him. As Chainer died, he gave the Mirari to Kamahl, who attached it to his sword and
vowed to keep the powerful artifact safe.
He returned home, to Jeska, Balthor, and the Pardic Mountains [Cinder Glade] [Starstorm] [Darigaaz’s
Caldera] [Mountain x 3]. There, he attempted to remain content with his newfound fame and glory, but
the Mirari grew to dominate his mind. The artifact whispered promised of power if Kamahl could unite all
the Pardic barbarians. And so Kamahl set out, on a new quest to unite all the tribes under his ‘leadership’.
The tribes began to unite against his growing force, and during one of the battles, Kamahl, with the help
of the Mirari, went on a bloodthirst. Jeska attempted to stop Kamahl, but Kamahl’s rage was too strong.
He thrust the Mirari-sword into her chest, killed her for the first, but not last, time. Upon killing his sister,
Kamahl snapped out of the Mirari’s spell. He tried to heal Jeska, but the Mirari’s influence struck too deep
in Jeska, twisting her flesh and corrupting her body. Kamahl fled, along with Balthor, with Jeska’s body
into the nearby Krosan forest, as he felt a calling from the center of the forest [Cragcrown Pathway]
[Forest x 3]. Upon reaching the edge of the forest, Kamahl’s old foe Laquatus ambushed him. Balthor,
recognizing that Jeska needed immediate aid, fought Laquatus along, allowing Kamahl to escape into the
forest with Jeska. There, he met his old friend Seton, who attempted to heal Jeska using his druidic magic
[Harmonize].
Aside from all this commotion, it should be noted that Kamahl was pretty hated by the Cabal and other
factions of Otaria. He essentially stole the Mirari from the Cabal, who stole the Mirari from the Mer
Empire, who stole the Mirari from the Order. And these factions all wanted the Mirari back from Kamahl.
Each faction tracked him down to the Krosan forest (he was building an empire; it was not hard) but it
was the Cabal to find Seton and Jeska. Braids found and killed Seton and took Jeska back to Cabal City (we
will get back into this in Part 2).
Moving back to Kamahl, before Jeska was captured, Kamahl left her in Seton’s care and ventured towards
the center of the forest with the Mirari. There he met a nantuko named Thriss [Thriss, Nantuko Primus],
who (slowly) converted Kamahl from his barbaric ways into a druid of the Krosan forest [Kamahl, Fist of
Krosa]. Eventually, Laquatus came to claim the Mirari, but he was not alone. A zombified (thanks to Braids)
Balthor stood to the side of Laquatus [Balthor the Defiled]. Laquatus forced Balthor to fight his old tribe
member, to which Kamahl put Balthor out of his misery. Then, Kamahl struck Laquatus through the chest
and into the ground, pinning the Mirari-sword deep into the ground [Naturalize]. Kamahl left the Mirari
there, recognizing the artifact was too powerful for him. He forsook the Mirari and the barbarian way of
life and pledged his life to the druidic way [Kamahl’s Druidic Vow] [Temple of Malady].
Story Part 2: Jeska into Phage
Jeska was taken to the head of the Cabal in Cabal City, the Patriarch [Cabal Patriarch]. The Patriarch was
planning to kill Jeska as an act of vengeance against Kamahl, who disrupted his operations in Cabal City.
The Patriarch, a worshipper of the god-like entity Kuberr, had an ability to decay and kill anything that he
touched. As he used this power on an already corrupted Jeska [Cabal Ritual], the entity Kuberr took notice
and saw something interesting in Jeska, something so interesting that he intervened. Kuberr not only took
away the deathlike touch (for an instant) but he entwined Jeska’s corruption with his own, giving birth to
Phage [Phage the Untouchable] [Deathsprout].
Story Part 3: Phage the Untouchable
Phage was cursed just as the Patriarch was blessed, with an all-decaying touch. [Smother] [Cruel Edict]
[Swat]. The Patriarch fell in love with ‘his’ new creation, he intended to use her in the fighting pits as her
upbringing as a barbarian combined with a deadly touch was an unstoppable force. And surprisingly,
Phage was loyal to the Patriarch. One of her fights, which unknowingly to her would ever alter her life,
was against a young couple named Ixidor and Nivea [Null Profession] [Cultivate]. With her deathly touch,
Phage killed Nivea and Ixidor conceded. All Ixidor’s money and belongings were put on this match, and he
was banished from Cabal City to the nearby desert (we will get back to him). Phage was then entrusted
with the creation of a new fighting pit, a grand fighting pit, a grand coliseum [Grand Coliseum]. Upon
completion, word was sent to all Otaria that there would be untold riches and glory for anyone willing to
step into this arena (we know where this is headed).
Back to Ixidor and the desert. Ixidor had lost all semblance of reality (his flavor text says it best “Reality
has exiled me. I am no longer bound by its laws”). He began to weave a new reality in his mind, and to his
surprise, it began to manifest (heh). He first created a safe place for him to rest, calling it Topos
[Cloudpost]. He then weaved food, drink, and living creatures into the city, but he was still haunted and
barely clung to reality. He frequently dreamed of Phage in the Grand Coliseum, and word had reached his
city about a new arena. The Cabal seemed inviting, but Ixidor believed it all to be a plot to kill him (why
the Cabal would care about an outcast is beyond me). Ixidor was tortured by this, and during one of his
dreams, Phage came to Topos to kill him. While fleeing, Phage grabbed Ixidor’s arm which immediately
rotted away. But before he could feel the cold grip of death, a depiction of his love, Nivea, appeared and
slew Phage. When he thrust up awaken, he breathed a sigh of relief but found that his arm had in fact
disappeared. Also, he found an angel, with the likeness of Nivea, standing beside his bed. And thus,
Akroma, Angel of Fury was created [Akroma, Angel of Fury]. To fulfill his ‘premonition’, Ixidor sent Akroma
to Cabal City to slay Phage.
Word had also reached the Krosan forest and Kamahl saw this as an opportunity to bring back his sister.
He teamed up with an army of druids and mutant centaurs (the Mirari is a weird artifact) and marched to
Cabal City.
Kamahl and his army reached the Grand Coliseum and was offered a choice [Kamahl’s Will]. There could
be an all-out battle, or he could face Phage one on one. Knowing that the battle would be a losing choice,
he opted to face his corrupted sister. Phage was relentless in trying to kill Kamahl, who just wanted his
sister back. He pleaded for Jeska to hear him, but nothing came of it. It was here when Akroma descended
from the skies to kill Phage and anyone who would defy her. So, oddly enough, Kamahl and Phage were
now on the same side, against a blood-thirsty angel. Eventually, the pair gained ground on the angel.
Kamahl’s army viewed Akroma’s intervention as a dirty trick by the Cabal and assaulted the city. During
the assault, Akroma knew she was beaten and battered, so she escaped back to Topos. With Akroma gone,
Kamahl ordered the army to stop the assault and combine forces with the Cabal against their actual foe,
Akroma.
In the assault of Topos, Ixidor and his creations lost heavy ground to the combined forces of the Cabal and
Krosan. He sent out a desperate spark of energy that would release all the nightmares of whatever it hit.
Unfortunately for just about everyone, that spark hit Phage. Phage belted out all the dark, twisted energy
of all her murders, killings, and pit fight wins. All these manifested as deathwurms, and the deathwurms
ravaged anything in their path [Infest]. One specific deathwurms tracked down Ixidor, who attempted to
escape but was eaten by the wurm. This wurm was the manifestation of Phage’s first kill, Ixidor’s love,
Nivea [Massacre Wurm].
With the deathwurms out of her body, Phage temporarily turned back into Jeska, who was horrified with
the wurms destroying the entire battlefield (her friends from the Krosan forest were fighting as well).
Knowing that the only way to save Otaria from the deathwurms was to reabsorb them into her body, Jeska
had a small reunion with Kamahl, and returned all the wurms to her body. Jeska morphed back into the
deadly Phage, and the battle was over. The desert city was ravaged but unbeaten [Bojuka Bog] [Golgari
Rot Farm] [Molten Slagheap] [Lavaclaw Reaches], all the forces were tired, Ixidor was inside of the one
wurm that had escaped, and Jeska was Phage once more.
Story Part 4: Phage, Akroma, and the Cold War
After seeing that his sister still lived inside Phage, Kamahl attempted to get Phage to leave the Cabal to
no avail. Phage turned her shoulder to Kamahl and returned to the fighting pits [Syphon Soul]. Akroma,
with the knowledge that Ixidor was in the belly of a deathwurms, took up leadership of Topos, and began
to obtain allies in the fight against the Cabal. While Phage returned to Cabal City, and Akroma returned to
Topos, there remained a massive population of troops that became refugees, deserters, or fugitives as
they deserted battle (I would not want to fight those deathwurms either) or their homes were destroyed.
Among this group were Kamahl’s second in charge, Stonebrow [Stonebrow, Krosan Hero], and Phage’s
second in charge, Zagorka [Lambholt Elder]. Under the duo’s leadership, they found an old, abandoned
city close to the battlefield [Temple of Abandon], and settled a new city named Sanctum there. After
some time, the Cabal learned of this city, and sent Phage there to win opinion. Phage succeeded in this
and established a gambling pit there. Unfortunately for her, Akroma also found this city. There she
declared that the city of Topos and its allies were at war with the Cabal and all that associated with them.
The people of Sanctum did not want war, so they asked Phage to leave and stop associating with them. It
was also here that Akroma found out Phage’s destiny from Braids, the reason Jeska was saved all those
years ago. Phage was to be the mother of Kuberr’s reincarnated essence [Dark Supplicant].
Soon after Phage returned to the Grand Coliseum and to the Patriarch. At the Coliseum, the Cabal
Patriarch informed Phage that their god was rewarding his loyalty by giving Phage to him as a prize. Seeing
this opportunity to fulfill her destiny, she agreed, and they bore a child (somehow the Patriarch did not
know this was to be Kuberr’s reincarnation... awk). The Patriarch grew distrustful of Phage, feeling that
she was too powerful and would usurp his throne. He sent Phage to kill Akroma, along with some of
Ixidor’s dream creations (long story...).
In Sanctum, apparently, they did not kick Phage out soon enough, as Akroma laid the city under siege.
Stonebrow, in all his mental prowess, decided that he and a small force could counterattack Topos and
kill Akroma. He was immediately captured and brainwashed to serve Akroma (genius...).
When Phage arrived at Sanctum to seek out Akroma, she found that Akroma had fled the battle in search
of the deathwurm that had captured Ixidor. Akroma had found the deathwurm but had not been able to
defeat it. She let the deathwurm consume her so that she could search the intestines for Ixidor (huh?).
She did end up finding him, but he had lost all sense of reality (again), and he would not leave the wurm
as he had found the essence of Nivea. He showed Akroma the way out, and Akroma returned to Sanctum
to deliver the news of Ixidor’s life. She found Phage waiting, however, and they begun to fight.
During the fight, Stonebrow returned to Sanctum and fought Phage, wounding her. He was able to undo
the brainwash, however, and turned on Akroma. Phage used this distraction to flee to Aphetto, an old
Cabal capital (it was closer than Cabal City, I guess) [Aphetto Dredging]. She had hardly gotten to the gates
of the city before she gave birth to Kuberr’s incarnation [Scion of Darkness]. Seeing this as Phage’s
attempt to grasp power, the Patriarch constantly sent assassins to kill her and the “baby”. They all failed,
and Braids finally came to Phage’s aid, snapping the Patriarch in half.
Story Part 5: Phage, Akroma, and Karon, False God
With this, Phage became the unquestioned ruler of the Cabal (until baby Kuberr grew up). Kuberr, still a
god, instructed Phage to wage an all-out war on Akroma (each death fueled his maturation). Phage began
to amass forces. Akroma learned of this and began to amass forces as well. Akroma mobilized quicker and
marched towards the Cabal.
Meanwhile, Stonebrow finally returned to Sanctum, finding it much different to how he left it. He found
that mysterious symbols appeared all throughout the city [Unspeakable Symbol]. The glyphs came to life,
much to everyone’s despair, and took over the city (maybe there is a reason the city was abandoned...).
The glyphs said that their master, another numen (same as Kuberr) named Averru, was to be reincarnated
in the city and that Zagorka was to be his mother. They locked Zagorka in a high tower in order to protect
her until her time came. Stonebrow left Sanctum and searched out Kamahl [Kamahl, Heart of Krosa] in
order to help the three cities be at peace (because he is good at that??).
In Stonebrow’s absence, Phage’s forces met Akroma’s force in Sanctum. When Stonebrow and Kamahl
arrived, they found the city in absolute chaos. The two forces were in a deadlock. In the middle of the city,
Phage and Akroma were at it once again. Seeing this, Kamahl knew that his sister would be better off dead
than trapped inside of Phage any longer. He had tried reason, but it was time to end this. He rushed
towards the two leader, Soul Reaper in hand, and ambushed the two [Obsidian Battle-Axe]. Kamahl struck
towards both leaders with his ax, but something happened that no one expected.
Seeing her city in chaos, Zagorka, who went mad trapped in the tower, decided to end her life. She took
to a window, and jumped... right on to Phage, Akroma, and the down-swinging ax. The swipe hit clean,
and killed the leaders of the Cabal, Topos, and Sanctum. All three souls combined, and a radiant blast of
light exploded from the weapon. When everyone was able to see again, there stood a figure so regal, so
powerful, all the forces (including Kamahl) could do nothing but bow to the new god, a god that was not
meant to be. Thus, Karona, False God was born.
Story Part 6: Karona into Jeska
The war between the Cabal, Topos, Krosa, and Sanctum had ended, and Karona stood above all. All
worshiped this newly created being, but she was more confused than flattered. She escaped Sanctum,
just wanting to figure out her place in the multiverse (same), and her worshippers pursued. She was
overwhelmed with her surroundings, and could not think with so much noise, the past destruction, and
the trauma of her creation [Memorial to War]. She outraced the crowd and disappeared into the desert.
There she met two of Ixidor’s old creations, the unmen, and befriended them. They wandered to a nearby
city (Eroshia), who broke out in worship. Karona left the unmen in the city to create a temple of worship
for her and left to wander the plane alone [Temple of the False God].
In Karona’s absence, the forces in Sanctum realized that they had not wanted to worship her. They were
forced by her powerful presence. Knowing this being was too powerful to exist on Dominaria, they united
under the terms that they would split after the defeat of Karona. The forces were dispatched by Kuberr,
the now leader of the Cabal, to the city of Eroshia, to seize Karona. The forces savaged their way to Karona,
who did not fully understand what was happening at the time. She was only focused on the safety of the
two unmen, her two friends. She grabbed them and flew high into the sky, away from the forces that were
fighting one another to get close to her. The two unmen pleaded to Karona to stop the forces from
fighting. Karona did this, but not nearly in a way the unmen wanted. She opened a large chasm under the
forces and sealed them into the ground [Decree of Pain] [Decree of Savagery].
Not understanding her power really bothered Karona, so she met with some of the most powerful beings
she could conjure; Teferi (white mana), Lowallyn (the Numen of blue mana), Yawgmoth (the black mana
god of Phyrexia), Fiers (dwarf god of red mana), and Multani (the Yavimaya god of green mana) [Fertile
Ground]. The advice was varied, but in the end Yawgmoth advised that her path was to embrace her
godhood and to crush all those whose oppose her... thanks Yawgmoth.
Meanwhile, Kamahl knew that he would need massive help in order to kill Karona. He sought out Ixidor
and found the deathwurm that had consumed him. Finding Ixidor in the same state that Akroma did, he
sliced through Nivea’s essence and dragged Ixidor out of the deathwurm. Here, Lowallyn saw his
opportunity to reincarnate and took over Ixidor’s body. He explained how to unite a force to oppose
Karona. It meant uniting his brothers, Kuberr and Averru. They grabbed Kuberr just as Karona assaulted /
devasted his city and escaped to Sanctum (now named... Averru after the now reincarnated god). With all
three brothers in toe, Kamahl laid a trap for Karona that worked. Karona arrived at Averru and was
captured. The brothers began a sealing ritual on Karona, but Kamahl had a realization much to the
brothers’ discontent. He realized with Karona (their Mother) sealed away, the continent would be theirs
to rule, like the olden days. He decided that this was no way to live and distracted them enough for Karona
to slip away. With this trauma, and the trauma of old, she escaped to anywhere she could. This ending up
being an entirely different plane of existence. She explored this power a bit more, and eventually found
herself on the plane of Argentum, where she met an entity calling itself ‘Lord Macht’. Macht focused her
planeswalking powers and directed her back to Dominaria.
She returned to Dominaria furious with her Sons. She amassed a force, and decimated Averru. The
Brothers were still weak from their attempt to capture her and stood little resistance. The only fault in
her plan was the character we started the story with, Kamahl. He had reclaimed the Mirari-sword and
battled Karona tooth and nail. Additionally, Lord Macht had followed Karona to Dominaria. Seeing the
destruction she caused, he called to her unmen followers, who turned on their master. Karona disarmed
Kamahl and prepared to strike him down, but the unmen were quicker. They directed the Mirari-sword
not to Kamahl, but into Karona herself. Karona collapsed under the power of the Mirari. Lord Macht then
offered to rid this plane of Karona and the Mirari, to which Kamahl happily agreed. Macht planeswalked
with Karona’s dying body and the Mirari-sword back to his home.
It was there where Macht was pleasantly surprised. Karona was alive, kind of. While Karona was ravaging
Otaria, Jeska was alive but unable to interact with Karona. The Mirari had killed Karona, but Jeska latent
planeswalker spark had allowed Jeska to survive. Macht helped Jeska recover, and revealed his identity of
the silver golem, Karn [Karn, Scion of Urza]. With this, we arrive at our main character. The one that was
killed thrice and was thrice reborn [Jeska, Thrice Reborn]. Jeska was fully a planeswalker now and had a
mentor in Karn. Karn removed the Mirari from the Krosan sword [Krosan Grip], and used the powerful
artifact for a story for another time (he used it for Memnarch...)
Story Part 7: The Mending of Dominaria
The last part of our story occurs several years after the events preceding. Jeska had accompanied Karn
through the multiverse, learning her new powers and becoming at peace with herself (she needed time
off after being traumatized her entire life). After some time, Karn left Jeska to return to Dominaria, which
was in the middle of a Time Crisis. The multiple planar-effecting events that happened on Dominaria
(including Phage, Akroma, and Zagorka becoming Karona) had torn holes in time all throughout
Dominaria. The holes (rifts) devoured the plane’s mana, consumed people, and threw out threats from
age long ago. In order to close them, a planeswalker needed to seal the rift using their spark, which
normally killed the planeswalker. Teferi closed one of the rifts by sacrificing his spark (he did not die), and
Karn went back into time to close another. Jeska soon arrived at Dominaria and asked where Karn went.
Some mages told Jeska that Karn had gone back in time to close the rift, and they were to close the
remaining rifts on Dominaria.
Jeska went to Otaria and inspected the rift there. Realizing the power of the rift, she explored the rest of
the continent in hopes that she could find something to help. It was here that Leshrac Nightwalker met
with Jeska. He told her of a vague plan involving the latent planeswalker spark of Venser (one of the mages
from before) and an elf called Radha [Radha, Heart of Keld]. Jeska did not trust Leshrac, so she declined
his help but went to search for Radha on her own. She found Radha in Llanowar [Llanowar Wastes] and
called for Radha’s aid, but Radha only cared to lead her people against the forces of the time rift. Jeska
challenged Radha to a duel then, no magic just fighting. Radha agreed, lost, and was taken captive by
Jeska to seal a time rift in a place called Zhalfir. Radha refused to use the spark within her to help Jeska.
Meanwhile, Venser used his spark to close a different rift, but sensed that something was going horribly
wrong with Jeska. He teleported to Zhalfir and saw Jeska channel her magic through Radha’s spark and
into the rift in Zhalfir [Jeska’s Will]. The mages with Venser tried to stop Jeska, but Jeska was victorious
and closed the rift. Teferi was sad about this (his fault that he sealed away his home in a time rift anyway)
and the whole group was called to Yavimaya, where Multani was fighting another rift.
Jeska arrived first and told Multani of her method to close the rifts. Multani hated this and put her in a
magical sleep. He then spoke with Radha, who agreed to help Multani in exchange for the power of
Yavimaya (do not know what this means). Before Multani and Radha could close the rift, Multani went
into Jeska’s dreams to see why she was so angry. He saw an image of Kamahl, so angry that he was
slaughtering friends and creatures. Jeska was so fraught by this dream that she burst into flames and
exploded. Multani was caught in this, killed most of his essence but his mask. Jeska, more determined
than ever, grabbed Radha and the mask and headed to the rift. Using Radha as a lens again, she closed
the rift. Only two remained, one on Madara and one on Otaria.
At the Madaran rift, Leshrac awaited Jeska. He revealed that he was behind Jeska’s nightmare and had
invaded her subconscious. He was responsible for her brash actions. He paralyzed Jeska and absorbed all
the latent powers of Phage from Jeska. Here, Nicol Bolas arrived and Leshrac tried to absorb his power
too. Bolas easily overpowered Leshrac and absorbed his power [Parting Thoughts]. Then, Bolas sealed the
Madaran rift and dipped out in case the last rift was not closed.
Jeska, now free, went to the Otarian rift. Noting that it was stronger and more powerful than all the other
rifts, she knew that only her planeswalker spark would seal it. She created this rift years ago when her
second self, Phage, became Karona, and she alone could fix this, through sacrifice. She flew directly into
the heart of the rift, sacrificing herself and sealing the final rift.
With the last rift sealed, the time crisis was averted, and the Great Mending occurred [The Mending of
Dominaria]. FIN
Epilogue:
I had a lot of fun with this. I probably got a whole bunch of stuff wrong with the story, but there were
several conflicting sources that I ran through with this. Older magic stories have plenty of different writers
and different tones so it can be a big challenge to summarize, let alone make a deck out of! Also, I included
a few cards that are cool, but did not make my cut. Feel free to included them or whatever you feel!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the LONG summary for a story that spanned several years, expansions, and
iterations. I hope you have a great time with the deck, and a great holiday!
Best,
-GeauxStephen-
Cards with No Story Meaning (Maybe you can find some meaning here)
- Evolving Wilds
- Golgari Signet
- Gruul Signet
- Gruul Turf
- Hissing Quagmire
- Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
- Jund Panorama
- Rakdos Carnarium
- Rakdos Signet
- Rocky Tar Pit
- Savage Lands
- Smoldering Marsh
- Talisman of Impulse
- Talisman of Resilience
- Terramorphic Expanse
