Magic: The Gathering‘s New Expansion Wants You to Behold Some Dragons

Truly, this is the age of Magic: The Gathering dragons. Magic: The Gathering loves dragons. It loves them as major players in its lore, it loves them on lavish card art, it occasionally loves them in dungeons, when dallying about with its fellow Wizards of the Coast property. But as the venerable trading card game enters its next original expansion—on the precipice on its next, controversial step into the game’s crossover-laden future—it wants to bring you back not just to the familiar realm of Tarkir, but to the basics. Which, in this case, involves looking the hell out of some dragons. Tarkir: Dragonstorm marks the conclusion of Magic‘s latest storyline—the middle chapter of an ongoing trilogy of narratives that have encompassed the game’s original card sets since August 2024’s Bloomburrow, all the way to an as-yet-untitled set due to release late next year. Returning to the plane of Tarkir, first visited in the 2014 block beginning with Khans of Tarkir, it’s set amid chaos on the ... Read full article.